Potential Titles: Prison
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somethingdarkerYesterdays and tomorrows being the walls of our prisons - Etel Adnan "Night"
A power whose prisons are broken - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Listening to the prisoned cricket - Louise Bogan "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"
Prisoned in gnawing restraint - Karin Boye "A Dedication" transl. by Nadia Christensen
Brooding in thy prisoned rage - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
When the damned fiends from their prison came - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
And set the prisoned light of heaven free - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
In the prison of the gifted - Leonard Cohen "Happens to the Heart"
When noonday hovers o'er my prison dun - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
An ever-muttering prisoned storm - John Davidson "London"
In the scarlet prison - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love I: Mine"
To her cruel, fatal prison - Mary Mapes Dodge "Elfin Jack, the Giant Killer"
Prison and palace and reverberation - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Hold the keys of prisoned tender memories - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Pretend our prison is our feast - Nikita Gill "A Mortal Interlude"
A crime the prisons wrote for him - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Forsake the verdant prison of her lily peers - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Prisons turn prisoners into movie endings - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The air escaping my throat's prison - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"
The demise of debtors' prisons - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Made cold prisons of my faery caves - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"
A toad eternally prisoned in stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"
With narrowing prison bind - James Russell Lowell "Prison of Cervantes"
And prison up the brave - John Masefield "King Cole"
Gleam from one towering prison - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
When prison locks and iron bars will fail - H.P. McKnight "A Prisoner's Thanksgiving"
What is a map but a useless prison? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
Silences of a prison with a mad star - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh
From the prisons of linear time - Matthew Olzmann "The Earthlings"
Language is a prison that fails - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Prisoned in thy melancholy eyes - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Niobe"
To make the prisoned heart rejoice - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
To the rhythm of prisons dismantled - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
As from a prison walled with hate - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Small pools their prisons are - Isaac Rosenberg "Song"
An axe to dig through the prison - Rumi "Die Now" transl. by A.J. Arberry
light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"
In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
In a seven-walled prison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
prison made of emerald & pennies - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Prison is a plantation made of stone & steel - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Memories, long prisoned, find release - Susan M. Spalding "At Friends' Meeting" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Making a prison of the world - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
Mind was a prison - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"
without pretending that home is an open prison - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"
From their dull prison in the dust - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
That only grows in prison soil - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Over my body's prison - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
And Song from her prison - John Hall Wheelock "Departure"
Prisons of triumphant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Cloud"
The wild tulip shall outlast the prison wall - John Wieners "Private Estate"
Rob the prison of its prey - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Music prisoned in her cave - Oscar Wilde "The New Remorse"
Our prisoner hearts unbar - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Discovery"
Prisoner of the tree and its green fingers - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"
A prisoner in earth's mournful dungeon - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Are made the prisoners of the sun - E.R. Dodds "Measure"
The prisoner of half moons - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Prisons turn prisoners into movie endings - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The prisoners of old ocean - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"
Prisoners of strong despair - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"
Keeping its prisoners for eternity - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Prisoners who've recently overthrown the jail - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
A prisoner with the door open - Pablo Neruda "The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri" transl. by Alastair Reid
And still the ones who left are prisoners - Margaret Noodin "They Arrive" transl. by the author
Sullen prisoners in the body's cage - Alexander Pope "Elegy"
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Loud as the ghosts of prisoners long-forgotten - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Reminders, a company of ghosts, prisoners in kind - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
Prisoner in this cold fortress - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Imprison.
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A power whose prisons are broken - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Listening to the prisoned cricket - Louise Bogan "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"
Prisoned in gnawing restraint - Karin Boye "A Dedication" transl. by Nadia Christensen
Brooding in thy prisoned rage - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
When the damned fiends from their prison came - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
And set the prisoned light of heaven free - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
In the prison of the gifted - Leonard Cohen "Happens to the Heart"
When noonday hovers o'er my prison dun - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
An ever-muttering prisoned storm - John Davidson "London"
In the scarlet prison - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love I: Mine"
To her cruel, fatal prison - Mary Mapes Dodge "Elfin Jack, the Giant Killer"
Prison and palace and reverberation - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Hold the keys of prisoned tender memories - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Pretend our prison is our feast - Nikita Gill "A Mortal Interlude"
A crime the prisons wrote for him - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Forsake the verdant prison of her lily peers - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Prisons turn prisoners into movie endings - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The air escaping my throat's prison - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"
The demise of debtors' prisons - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Made cold prisons of my faery caves - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"
A toad eternally prisoned in stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"
With narrowing prison bind - James Russell Lowell "Prison of Cervantes"
And prison up the brave - John Masefield "King Cole"
Gleam from one towering prison - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
When prison locks and iron bars will fail - H.P. McKnight "A Prisoner's Thanksgiving"
What is a map but a useless prison? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
Silences of a prison with a mad star - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh
From the prisons of linear time - Matthew Olzmann "The Earthlings"
Language is a prison that fails - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Prisoned in thy melancholy eyes - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Niobe"
To make the prisoned heart rejoice - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
To the rhythm of prisons dismantled - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
As from a prison walled with hate - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Small pools their prisons are - Isaac Rosenberg "Song"
An axe to dig through the prison - Rumi "Die Now" transl. by A.J. Arberry
light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"
In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
In a seven-walled prison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
prison made of emerald & pennies - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Prison is a plantation made of stone & steel - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Memories, long prisoned, find release - Susan M. Spalding "At Friends' Meeting" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Making a prison of the world - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
Mind was a prison - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"
without pretending that home is an open prison - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"
From their dull prison in the dust - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
That only grows in prison soil - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Over my body's prison - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
And Song from her prison - John Hall Wheelock "Departure"
Prisons of triumphant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Cloud"
The wild tulip shall outlast the prison wall - John Wieners "Private Estate"
Rob the prison of its prey - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Music prisoned in her cave - Oscar Wilde "The New Remorse"
Our prisoner hearts unbar - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Discovery"
Prisoner of the tree and its green fingers - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"
A prisoner in earth's mournful dungeon - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Are made the prisoners of the sun - E.R. Dodds "Measure"
The prisoner of half moons - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Prisons turn prisoners into movie endings - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The prisoners of old ocean - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"
Prisoners of strong despair - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"
Keeping its prisoners for eternity - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Prisoners who've recently overthrown the jail - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
A prisoner with the door open - Pablo Neruda "The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri" transl. by Alastair Reid
And still the ones who left are prisoners - Margaret Noodin "They Arrive" transl. by the author
Sullen prisoners in the body's cage - Alexander Pope "Elegy"
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Loud as the ghosts of prisoners long-forgotten - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Reminders, a company of ghosts, prisoners in kind - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
Prisoner in this cold fortress - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Imprison.
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