Potential Titles: Purpose
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somethingdarkerAll life's purpose at her feet - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
To kill for some other purpose - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
Descent from lofty faith and purpose - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Symbols"
Through the tangle of frail purposes - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
With eerie gentle purpose - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Turning as with serious purpose before stupid winds - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Carrying the iron of purpose in them - Kwame Dawes "Steel"
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
High stakes the purpose of my throw - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
Only vector of purpose - Galway Kinnell "The Past"
Purpose at the heart of things - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Purposes dissolved in wine - Don Marquis "The Parting"
Losing the rest of the pieces on purpose - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
A purpose always stacked on another purpose - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
Praise the purposeful silver needle - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Considering purposes for existence - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
No loitering without intent or purpose - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Now have thy lips no purpose - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
The fragile contingency of purpose - Emilio Porta "Circle"
Tangled purposes and hopes undone - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Life"
Air to their purpose - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"
The map of chance and purpose - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
The wealth of honest purpose - James Whitcombe Riley "A Poor Man's Wealth"
Serves local purposes - Kay Ryan "Double Floor"
With no purpose but movement - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"
By adding one thing to my purpose - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"
Resounds with the purpose of generations past - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
That proves its purpose to be fair - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
Some other purpose in death - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
A purposeless express of joy - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
Barren purposeless change - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 3"
Such purposeless and iron wings - Louis Golding "Having Finished 'Jude the Obscure'"
Creating a memorial from repurposed fragments - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
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To kill for some other purpose - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
Descent from lofty faith and purpose - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Symbols"
Through the tangle of frail purposes - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
With eerie gentle purpose - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Turning as with serious purpose before stupid winds - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Carrying the iron of purpose in them - Kwame Dawes "Steel"
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
High stakes the purpose of my throw - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
Only vector of purpose - Galway Kinnell "The Past"
Purpose at the heart of things - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Purposes dissolved in wine - Don Marquis "The Parting"
Losing the rest of the pieces on purpose - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
A purpose always stacked on another purpose - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
Praise the purposeful silver needle - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Considering purposes for existence - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
No loitering without intent or purpose - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Now have thy lips no purpose - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
The fragile contingency of purpose - Emilio Porta "Circle"
Tangled purposes and hopes undone - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Life"
Air to their purpose - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"
The map of chance and purpose - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
The wealth of honest purpose - James Whitcombe Riley "A Poor Man's Wealth"
Serves local purposes - Kay Ryan "Double Floor"
With no purpose but movement - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"
By adding one thing to my purpose - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"
Resounds with the purpose of generations past - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
That proves its purpose to be fair - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
Some other purpose in death - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
A purposeless express of joy - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
Barren purposeless change - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 3"
Such purposeless and iron wings - Louis Golding "Having Finished 'Jude the Obscure'"
Creating a memorial from repurposed fragments - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
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