Potential Titles: Sacrifice

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Reframe that choice as sacrifice - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"

Found on our consenting sacrifice - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

Pungent in the still images sacrificed to history - Kimberly Blaeser "Unlawful Assembly"

Siphoned sacrifices meant for our goddess - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

This sacrifice of praise - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"

The sound of dawn's first sacrifice - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

First sacrifice to the residues of commerce - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Each word is sacrificed to a sword - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

Rituals of steel and sacrifice - Nikita Gill "Pallas and Athena"

Offer sacrifices proper to the season - Dana Gioia "Shopping"

The ritual sacrifice of round birds - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Hearts resolved to every sacrifice - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"

A sacrifice of deer for the starving - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"

Still had an appetite for sacrifice - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

A swarm of swallows to sacrifice - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

Forgive these ravenous waves for demanding sacrifice - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

sacrifice denied to the wind - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

Myself the sacrifice - Amy Lowell "Before the Altar"

Spared for royal sacrifice - James Russell Lowell "On Burning Some Old Letters"

Sacrifices at the altar of your need - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"

Live between sacrifice and shelter - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Sacrificed his vision for his coat - John Masefield "The Haunted"

The difference between sacrifice and desire - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Exalt each deed of sacrifice - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"

With bodies pure enough to sacrifice - Arianna Monet "Thinking about "The Little Mermaid" in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department"

Don a flower crown for the sacrifice - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly

A day that burns with sacrifice - Pablo Neruda "Ars Poetica" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The silver fumes of sacrifice - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

To fool us into sacrifice - Linda Pastan "On Seeing an Old Photograph"

Calls the Bard to share the holy sacrifice - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

Sacrificed at the builder's doorstep - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Threshold"

sacrifice dreams for future generations - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Our sacrifice upon the accursed tree - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IX"

Sacrificed preconceptions and perspectives - Ann K. Schwader "Alexandria Next Time"

This cavern sanctified by screams & sacrifice - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

Resources sacrificed to other crises - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

The holy hush of ancient sacrifice - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Your rituals of sacrifice - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 29: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A restless jackal is after the sacrifice - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Made of your sacrifice - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

The feverish offering of our cold water sacrifices - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

You asked, I think, too great a sacrifice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"

For this Priam's great city of Troy was sacrificed - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

Evidence of a necessary sacrifice - Jay Wright "Imule"

The unfading crown of sacrifice - Francis Brett Young "Sonnet [Not only for remembered loveliness]"

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


Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"

Once grim with sacrificial fires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"


Built for terror and self-sacrifice - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Doo-Wop"


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