Potential Titles: Clasp
Mar. 6th, 2010 10:52 pmClasping us with broken hands - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"
With clasps of ivory strengthened - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"
Clasp hands in confidence - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Path"
Clasps his hands in the wine-chill air - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Clasp the nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"
To the hollows of clasped hands - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"
Dare its deadly terrors clasp - William Blake "The Tiger"
But cannot climb to clasp a star - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXIII. Flesh and Spirit" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Clasped hands and silences - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"
Clasp and beat wild, desolate hands - Ida Coolbrith "California"
Clasped in the compass of one sun - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"
Vines clasping on barbed wire fences - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Clasp me to this impossible hour - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
Clasping my knees in the whispering cold - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
When pestilence clasps hands with death - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
Clasped by the golden light - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
Netted clasp of knots and rings - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"
Clasp my hands over my weary eyes - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"
Clasped my name between her lips - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Clasp to itself our kindred dust - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Bound with twelve shining clasps - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Coursing through clasped hands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
That clasped both our hearts - Grace Paley [untitled]
The clasp of morning love - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
Clasps and keeps in voiceless joy - James Whitcombe Riley "Little David"
Roots clasping the high hill's edge - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The sunlight clasps the earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Two hands clasped in anguish - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
Caught me from the clasping world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Torn from the clasping day - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Orbs that graven monsters clasp - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Clasped and clothed in the cloven clay - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Clasped by roots and rains - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"
Bring the light clasped round you - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Clasps creation with his claws - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
Clasped hands glimmer through the deepening gray - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"
Quickens the unclasping hands - D.H. Lawrence "Study"
Unclasped and left empty in the center - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Unclasp a restless froth of light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
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With clasps of ivory strengthened - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"
Clasp hands in confidence - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Path"
Clasps his hands in the wine-chill air - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Clasp the nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"
To the hollows of clasped hands - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"
Dare its deadly terrors clasp - William Blake "The Tiger"
But cannot climb to clasp a star - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXIII. Flesh and Spirit" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Clasped hands and silences - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"
Clasp and beat wild, desolate hands - Ida Coolbrith "California"
Clasped in the compass of one sun - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"
Vines clasping on barbed wire fences - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Clasp me to this impossible hour - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
Clasping my knees in the whispering cold - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
When pestilence clasps hands with death - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
Clasped by the golden light - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
Netted clasp of knots and rings - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"
Clasp my hands over my weary eyes - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"
Clasped my name between her lips - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Clasp to itself our kindred dust - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Bound with twelve shining clasps - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Coursing through clasped hands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
That clasped both our hearts - Grace Paley [untitled]
The clasp of morning love - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
Clasps and keeps in voiceless joy - James Whitcombe Riley "Little David"
Roots clasping the high hill's edge - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The sunlight clasps the earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Two hands clasped in anguish - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
Caught me from the clasping world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Torn from the clasping day - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Orbs that graven monsters clasp - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Clasped and clothed in the cloven clay - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Clasped by roots and rains - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"
Bring the light clasped round you - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Clasps creation with his claws - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
Clasped hands glimmer through the deepening gray - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"
Quickens the unclasping hands - D.H. Lawrence "Study"
Unclasped and left empty in the center - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Unclasp a restless froth of light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
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