Potential Titles: Spare

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That snatched up every breath I could spare - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

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"

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 you the labor of buoyancy - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"

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"

Can spare myself little sleep - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"

Spare us last catastrophe - John Presland "The Deluge"

Spare me gloved hands - Nicole Sealey "unframed"

Cannot spare more hours - Marilyn Singer "Paint Me"

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

But again the sky is spared - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"

Spare specks of dust - Allan Wolf "Shooting Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower"

And therefore spared from sacrifice - Rachel Zucker "More Accidents"


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