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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-03-06 10:52 pm

Potential Titles: Clasp

Clasping 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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