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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-06-04 09:55 pm

Potential Titles: Fine

Refused to be whittled to a fine point - Elizabeth Acevedo "Self-Portrait as Lilith"

Arrives with a fine taste of sulfur - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"

Through fine purple clover was faring - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Bobolink's Song"

Brought me finer gifts than gold - Vera M. Brittain "To Monseigneur"

The language of a fine lament - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

The fine and twisted shapes of the heart - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"

Seven fine churches and five old mills - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

To a fine, pedantic sunshine - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXII"

Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"

The moon's fine clothing - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"

A fine glass fishing buoy - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

Something fine weaving us round - Zona Gale "The Bureau"

The threads are so fine you can hardly see - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

On trees still summer fine - Ivor Gurney "Migrants"

Teach me the fine art of subtraction - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"

An energy and fury fine as a bull's - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

Gather the fine amber dust in the air - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Whitened by a fine silt of flour - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"

Lichens fine as dryad's hair - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

The wind's fine veil - Megan Levad "Foundling"

The fine print of our eyes - Philip Levine "Salt and Oil"

A fine old salt-sea scavenger - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"

Fine-tuning the orchestra of lies - Airea D. Matthews "From the Pocket of His Lip"

Spices, fine linen, and cloth of gold - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Draw the breath of finer air - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"

A fine veil of whispered voices - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"

Under centuries of fine dead dust of roses - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet VI from Second April

Pulled through fine intelligent mesh - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

With passion fine as flame - Ethel Allen Murphy "The Angel of Thought (Suggested by a Fra Angelico Angel)"

Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

What doors are open to fine compliment - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"

Light fine as a wasp's sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Who want no finer disasterous fruit - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

Her thought's fine whisper - James Whitcombe Riley "This Dear Child-Hearted Woman that Is Dead"

The fine, intimidating witchcraft of their fingers - Arthur Rimbaud "The Seekers of Lice" transl. not credited

The fine cloth of your love - Carl Sandburg "They Buy with an Eye to Looks"

Like woven amber, finely spun - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"

Weave the fine and coarsest web - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"

A rare tissue of fine mysteries - W.W. Story "Sonnet"

Cleverness in finely powdered form - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 161: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Fine food for the crows - "They Fought South of the Wall" transl. by Burton Watson

Voices too fine for any mortal mind - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

Plucked the finest grapes in view - "Where's Sophie?" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Altars to their souls' fine fires - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"

The finer grace of unfulfilled designs - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"

A finer fire touched my lips - Francis Brett Young "Lament"


Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"


Disbelieving finery spun from flight - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"


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