Potential Titles: Frail
Jun. 7th, 2010 02:11 amBelow its gossamer arches frail - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"
Seeing how frail is the candle - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
The frail hand of a Fay - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"
The frail geometry of currents - William Brewer "Playing Along"
Paid by work so frail as mine - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIII. To Vittoria Colonna. Brazen Gifts for the Golden" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Through the tangle of frail purposes - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
Flings frail palaces at the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Were our frail hopes shields - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"
Too fair and frail to keep - Benjamin Copeland "Among the Lilies"
From wild thorn frail their order grew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The frail, pale music of my memory - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"
My branch of thoughts is frail tonight - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
Frail wrestler with the breeze - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
Each frail pilgrim of the thorny land - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Frail as the shadow of an emerald - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Frail children of sorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
The frailest iteration of change - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"
Frail as a snow-white feather - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
To lift this frail, inconsequent flower - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"
This frail world our only rest - James Montgomery "Friends"
A frail and dusty heap of regret - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"
This thing, so frail and alien - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"
Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"
A wind frail as a kitten's paw - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The frail moon worn to a silvery tissue - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"
Obscuring time's frail fabric as it rips - Ann K. Schwader "In This Brief Interval"
Frail decoy to merit myriad-hued - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"
A frail invisible net - Sara Teasdale "A Winter Bluejay"
Frail light still burning - Matthew Thorburn "These Days"
Frail bridges to infinity - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Old Man"
Frail plumes of sun and silver - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires XVII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Presence yet more fugitive and frail - William Watson "Autumn"
The frail butterfly's embroidered cloak - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
A filigree frost of frail notes lost - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Frail cities of lath and reed - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Vaguely outlined and bubble-frail - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"
With the bright frailty of foam - Sara Teasdale "A Little While"
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Seeing how frail is the candle - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
The frail hand of a Fay - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"
The frail geometry of currents - William Brewer "Playing Along"
Paid by work so frail as mine - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIII. To Vittoria Colonna. Brazen Gifts for the Golden" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Through the tangle of frail purposes - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
Flings frail palaces at the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Were our frail hopes shields - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"
Too fair and frail to keep - Benjamin Copeland "Among the Lilies"
From wild thorn frail their order grew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The frail, pale music of my memory - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"
My branch of thoughts is frail tonight - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
Frail wrestler with the breeze - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
Each frail pilgrim of the thorny land - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Frail as the shadow of an emerald - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Frail children of sorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
The frailest iteration of change - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"
Frail as a snow-white feather - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
To lift this frail, inconsequent flower - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"
This frail world our only rest - James Montgomery "Friends"
A frail and dusty heap of regret - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"
This thing, so frail and alien - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"
Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"
A wind frail as a kitten's paw - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The frail moon worn to a silvery tissue - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"
Obscuring time's frail fabric as it rips - Ann K. Schwader "In This Brief Interval"
Frail decoy to merit myriad-hued - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"
A frail invisible net - Sara Teasdale "A Winter Bluejay"
Frail light still burning - Matthew Thorburn "These Days"
Frail bridges to infinity - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Old Man"
Frail plumes of sun and silver - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires XVII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Presence yet more fugitive and frail - William Watson "Autumn"
The frail butterfly's embroidered cloak - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
A filigree frost of frail notes lost - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Frail cities of lath and reed - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Vaguely outlined and bubble-frail - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"
With the bright frailty of foam - Sara Teasdale "A Little While"
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