Potential Titles: Pure
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somethingdarkerMixed by impure stars to common metal - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"
Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Rinsed of impurities - Kay Ryan "Star Block"
So purely yonder in soft air - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
A pure cruel strategy - Daisy Aldan "Frozen Frames of a Last Meeting"
More pure and hallowed to the view - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VI--Summer"
Their faded state in such pure haunts - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
The rosy veils of pure celestial air - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Pure quatrain in a poet's heart - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"
Carved of minerals pure and cold - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Inhaling Nature's purest breath - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Which made your black hearts pure - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"
That pure bread which cheers the soul - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
Repeating invocations pure and perfect - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Which purer worlds assemble - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
With worthy acceptance of pure joy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The step of each pure image - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
As pure, as metallic as ice - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Under the pure sequestering snow - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"
Morning mist from purest ether sifting - Giosue Carducci "On the Sixth Centenary of Dante" transl. by Frank Sewall
Mighty fountains pure and strong - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"
Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"
The pure golden message of your moon - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"
Pure and lucent hearts - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
With pure and humble eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "An Evening Walk in Spring"
In letters of pure gold - Jamie Harris Coleman "To the Memory of Booker T. Washington"
Folded in petals of the purest white - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"
Baptized in the beauty of pure elements - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
A flower of so pure surprise - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
One pure trembling drop of cadence - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
To the realm of the pure - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
By the light of his pure joy - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
In its diadem so pure a gem - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
An atom of pure and living will - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
The brave pure winds commingling - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Plant a warder keen and pure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"
Pure speed held back for the finish - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"
Potent as the rays of pure desire - Max Eastman "X Rays"
To seek for hell so pure a gem as this - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Lost a phrase of pure physics - Robert Frazier "Imageography"
Thwarting the eager spirit's pure intelligence - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Many a gem of purest ray - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Pure and cold your radiance - Ivor Gurney "Requiem"
The down of that pure azure breast - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The pure lightnings of exalted thought - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
Of colour and pure wings - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
The last summer of pure breathlessness - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Under the pure silence, earth - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
That spurn the pure green fern - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
With a heart absolved and pure - Sir Nizamat Jung "V: Unity"
Prince of pure heaven's fire - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Nurse of pure herbs - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Pure water from their golden urns - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The pure silver radiance enshrining - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Having learnt from sources pure and high - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
The pure, upright ringing of a silent trajectory - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Never cease the pure chaste hymns - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Most purely practical of jokers - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Toward a horizon of pure blood - Philip Levine "Library Days"
Envy at their pure resolve - Thomas Lynch "Damage"
This pure fragment, this collapse of lines - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
The incense of pure love - George Martin "Marguerite"
Pure and clear as diamond scale - H.P. McKnight "Acrostic Tribute to God's Messengers, Chaplain and Mrs. C.L. Winget"
Its denials and pure promises - W.S. Merwin "Night with No Moon"
This pure shadow of travel - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"
So pure it would kill - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"
The scent of pure winter - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
With bodies pure enough to sacrifice - Arianna Monet "Thinking about "The Little Mermaid" in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department"
Last drop of pure forgetfulness - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Deserts of pure geography - Pablo Neruda "Happy Year to My Country in Darkness" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Pure offspring of wood - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
In the pure air of honeyed days - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A pure part of the abyss - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid
Her banner of pure stone - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Pure heir of the ruined day - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin
Drink the pure wine of language - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Find the pure center of light - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"
A purer correspondence with the radiance of leaves - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
Astray from the straight pure bevel - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
When purest gold fell softly to the snow - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"
Where pure seraphs shine - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
Pure wilderness still sovereign - Ann K. Schwader "Minions of the Moon"
A thousand shadows of the pure grotesque - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"
Melody in pure and ordered unison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Pure as a seraph's tear - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Out of the dark pure twilight - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: III. Venice"
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Pure and bright in the cool evening air - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Naked, pure, and grave, unbroken silence - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
Pure nature in the night - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Pure lamp on hermit's shrine - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
A pure reflection of the inward thought - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"
Too pure and proud for scorn - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
The anchor of my purest thoughts - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Pure moon of the doorway - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Pure zero in the diadems - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Pure unchanging night - W.B. Yeats "Tom the Lunatic"
Restrained by pure-eyed Sorrow's hand - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Undying thirst that purifies - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Dissolve in purifying tears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"
Purifying floods of song - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"
Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
Still retain their purity of functional design - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
Through the silver-pure hours - Amelia Josephine Burr "Perugia"
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Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Rinsed of impurities - Kay Ryan "Star Block"
So purely yonder in soft air - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
A pure cruel strategy - Daisy Aldan "Frozen Frames of a Last Meeting"
More pure and hallowed to the view - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VI--Summer"
Their faded state in such pure haunts - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
The rosy veils of pure celestial air - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Pure quatrain in a poet's heart - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"
Carved of minerals pure and cold - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Inhaling Nature's purest breath - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Which made your black hearts pure - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"
That pure bread which cheers the soul - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
Repeating invocations pure and perfect - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Which purer worlds assemble - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
With worthy acceptance of pure joy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The step of each pure image - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
As pure, as metallic as ice - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Under the pure sequestering snow - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"
Morning mist from purest ether sifting - Giosue Carducci "On the Sixth Centenary of Dante" transl. by Frank Sewall
Mighty fountains pure and strong - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"
Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"
The pure golden message of your moon - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"
Pure and lucent hearts - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
With pure and humble eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "An Evening Walk in Spring"
In letters of pure gold - Jamie Harris Coleman "To the Memory of Booker T. Washington"
Folded in petals of the purest white - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"
Baptized in the beauty of pure elements - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
A flower of so pure surprise - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
One pure trembling drop of cadence - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
To the realm of the pure - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
By the light of his pure joy - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
In its diadem so pure a gem - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
An atom of pure and living will - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
The brave pure winds commingling - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Plant a warder keen and pure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"
Pure speed held back for the finish - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"
Potent as the rays of pure desire - Max Eastman "X Rays"
To seek for hell so pure a gem as this - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Lost a phrase of pure physics - Robert Frazier "Imageography"
Thwarting the eager spirit's pure intelligence - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Many a gem of purest ray - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Pure and cold your radiance - Ivor Gurney "Requiem"
The down of that pure azure breast - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The pure lightnings of exalted thought - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
Of colour and pure wings - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
The last summer of pure breathlessness - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Under the pure silence, earth - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
That spurn the pure green fern - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
With a heart absolved and pure - Sir Nizamat Jung "V: Unity"
Prince of pure heaven's fire - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Nurse of pure herbs - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Pure water from their golden urns - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The pure silver radiance enshrining - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Having learnt from sources pure and high - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
The pure, upright ringing of a silent trajectory - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Never cease the pure chaste hymns - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Most purely practical of jokers - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Toward a horizon of pure blood - Philip Levine "Library Days"
Envy at their pure resolve - Thomas Lynch "Damage"
This pure fragment, this collapse of lines - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
The incense of pure love - George Martin "Marguerite"
Pure and clear as diamond scale - H.P. McKnight "Acrostic Tribute to God's Messengers, Chaplain and Mrs. C.L. Winget"
Its denials and pure promises - W.S. Merwin "Night with No Moon"
This pure shadow of travel - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"
So pure it would kill - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"
The scent of pure winter - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
With bodies pure enough to sacrifice - Arianna Monet "Thinking about "The Little Mermaid" in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department"
Last drop of pure forgetfulness - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Deserts of pure geography - Pablo Neruda "Happy Year to My Country in Darkness" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Pure offspring of wood - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
In the pure air of honeyed days - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A pure part of the abyss - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid
Her banner of pure stone - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Pure heir of the ruined day - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin
Drink the pure wine of language - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Find the pure center of light - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"
A purer correspondence with the radiance of leaves - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
Astray from the straight pure bevel - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
When purest gold fell softly to the snow - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"
Where pure seraphs shine - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
Pure wilderness still sovereign - Ann K. Schwader "Minions of the Moon"
A thousand shadows of the pure grotesque - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"
Melody in pure and ordered unison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Pure as a seraph's tear - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Out of the dark pure twilight - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: III. Venice"
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Pure and bright in the cool evening air - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Naked, pure, and grave, unbroken silence - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
Pure nature in the night - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Pure lamp on hermit's shrine - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
A pure reflection of the inward thought - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"
Too pure and proud for scorn - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
The anchor of my purest thoughts - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Pure moon of the doorway - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Pure zero in the diadems - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Pure unchanging night - W.B. Yeats "Tom the Lunatic"
Restrained by pure-eyed Sorrow's hand - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Undying thirst that purifies - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Dissolve in purifying tears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"
Purifying floods of song - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"
Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
Still retain their purity of functional design - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
Through the silver-pure hours - Amelia Josephine Burr "Perugia"
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