Potential Titles: Lapse/Relapse

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In sleep we lapse and lose ourselves - Thomas Aird "An Evening Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXVII, May 1851, v.LXIX]

After the lapse of thrice a thousand years - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

Lapsed again into Nature's wide domain - William Allingham "The Ruined Chapel"

Unforgiven for the lapse - Mary Jo Bang "Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"

Across a lacerating lapse in time - Mary Jo Bang "No More"

Partitions of distance and judgment lapse - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Lapse into surreptitious mist - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Lulled by the lapse of gliding floods - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

So sever'd from the present by the lapst - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

Burning the slightest lapse of sea - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

Wistfully lapsing after the mists of vanishing tears - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

Lapse into utter and grim despair - Henry S. Leigh "Weatherbound in the Suburbs"

In the lapse of noon - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

In the long lapse of time - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Immemorial vigil lapst to dream - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

Splendors of the lapsing sun - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"


A worse relapse and heavier fall - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

The sudden rise and slow relapse - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"


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