Potential Titles: Spare
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somethingdarkerThat snatched up every breath I could spare - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Spare the gnawing ruth of memories torturings - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
The skull with its spare coat of reason - Mary Jo Bang "When Meeting Beauty"
Spared from death to live accursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Spares not his crown in elemental storms - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
To spare me wrath turned inward - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"
spared us the ache of truth - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Spare us from loveliness - H.D. "Orchard"
Whose pallid cheek might win a fiend to spare - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And arrows of despair spare not to pierce - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
To spare a raindrop - Nick Demske "I let the flies bite me when I meditate"
Open this spare March evening - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Patched him together with spirit gum and spare parts - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Lightning's mark spares you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"
Spare the haunt of every gentle grace - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Spare you the labor of buoyancy - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Spare my jest and save my ears - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Whether I've been spare from grief - Brian Gyamfi "The Thing Dead on the Road"
To spare till the shadows pass - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"
Sparing only stars - Bob Kaufman "Lost Window"
Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Some spare company of hermit folk - Archibald Lampman "In November"
Please insert your spare coins - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"
Spared for royal sacrifice - James Russell Lowell "On Burning Some Old Letters"
At least you'll be spared the whip - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
Spare me your sparrow's tears - Anthony Madrid "Siebenundvierzig"
And the insect's minutes be spared the fears - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
Bids the keen axe the saplings spare - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, V"
Raiding the dead for spare parts - Wamuhu Mwaura "Circumbendibus" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]
Can spare myself little sleep - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
Spare us last catastrophe - John Presland "The Deluge"
Destroy what fiercer foes have spared - "St Magnus', Kirkwall" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIV, v.LX, Dec. 1846]
Spare me gloved hands - Nicole Sealey "unframed"
Cannot spare more hours - Marilyn Singer "Paint Me"
If my garden oak spares one bare ledge - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Garden vegetables with flavor to spare - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Room for all comers and plenty to spare - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
But again the sky is spared - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
And such ancient magic must be sparingly used - Dāshaun Washington "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyhood"
Will not spare to hurt and bind - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 13" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Spare specks of dust - Allan Wolf "Shooting Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower"
And therefore spared from sacrifice - Rachel Zucker "More Accidents"
That racked our world with ice-age winds' unsparing song - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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Spare the gnawing ruth of memories torturings - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
The skull with its spare coat of reason - Mary Jo Bang "When Meeting Beauty"
Spared from death to live accursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Spares not his crown in elemental storms - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
To spare me wrath turned inward - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"
spared us the ache of truth - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Spare us from loveliness - H.D. "Orchard"
Whose pallid cheek might win a fiend to spare - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And arrows of despair spare not to pierce - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
To spare a raindrop - Nick Demske "I let the flies bite me when I meditate"
Open this spare March evening - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Patched him together with spirit gum and spare parts - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Lightning's mark spares you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"
Spare the haunt of every gentle grace - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Spare you the labor of buoyancy - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Spare my jest and save my ears - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Whether I've been spare from grief - Brian Gyamfi "The Thing Dead on the Road"
To spare till the shadows pass - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"
Sparing only stars - Bob Kaufman "Lost Window"
Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Some spare company of hermit folk - Archibald Lampman "In November"
Please insert your spare coins - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"
Spared for royal sacrifice - James Russell Lowell "On Burning Some Old Letters"
At least you'll be spared the whip - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
Spare me your sparrow's tears - Anthony Madrid "Siebenundvierzig"
And the insect's minutes be spared the fears - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
Bids the keen axe the saplings spare - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, V"
Raiding the dead for spare parts - Wamuhu Mwaura "Circumbendibus" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]
Can spare myself little sleep - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
Spare us last catastrophe - John Presland "The Deluge"
Destroy what fiercer foes have spared - "St Magnus', Kirkwall" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIV, v.LX, Dec. 1846]
Spare me gloved hands - Nicole Sealey "unframed"
Cannot spare more hours - Marilyn Singer "Paint Me"
If my garden oak spares one bare ledge - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Garden vegetables with flavor to spare - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Room for all comers and plenty to spare - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
But again the sky is spared - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
And such ancient magic must be sparingly used - Dāshaun Washington "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyhood"
Will not spare to hurt and bind - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 13" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Spare specks of dust - Allan Wolf "Shooting Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower"
And therefore spared from sacrifice - Rachel Zucker "More Accidents"
That racked our world with ice-age winds' unsparing song - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Navigation Links:
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