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Potential Titles: Faint
Faint stunned strands of light - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
stars faint and dancing - Alise Alousi "Bite It"
Sleep's mellow horns are faintly calling - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"
That faint, persistent whisper that drives one to speak - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Faint interlocking tentacles of sound - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Fear of quiet waters and of faint twilights - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Walk towards a faint murmur of water - Russell Brakefield "Myth"
That Fainter Stars Seem Brilliant - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"
Faint before the truth - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
Waiting the zephyr's first faint kiss - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Water Lilies"
Comes not the faintest whisper of dissent - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Give faint visions of a paradise within - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
In whose chill arms I shiver faint and lost - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
the currency of faint cities eternal - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
A mist on faint winds borne - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Informed by a faint harmonica grieving - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Or help one fainting robin - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life VI"
A summons faint yet absolute - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
The last faint spark of its burning train - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
No faint trembling Flame - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"
As vesper chimes grow dimmer and more faint - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
With faint drum-tones of thunder - John Gould Fletcher "Mutability"
With faint rememberings of hours - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"
Find some faint loveliness unseen - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
The faint flowing speech of the friendly blue - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Lay faint on the Summer fields - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Whose light is faint as the moon in a cloudy night - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
From vivid crimson paled to fainter gloss - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Comes the faint Persephone trailing through the dew - Katherine Hale "Sign to Trespassers"
The burden of that faint and melancholy lay - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Whose flickering grace faints on the outmost rings of space - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"
Faint drums and hungry insects - Conrad Hilberry "Mario"
The faint but certain star of destiny - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
When the faint but certain star of destiny burned clear - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
A pair of stars, faint pins of light - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Faint streaks of doubtful light - "Hours of Childhood"
The birds sing faint broken songs - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"
A faint tinkling melody, warped with time - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Sated with a faint breath of music - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Faint with the hot sun - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"
Fluttering among the faint Olympians - John Keats "Psyche"
Creation isn't for the faint of heart - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"
No faintest gust of life - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
The brown bees murmur faint dreams - Archibald Lampman "April"
The moon falls fainting on the sky - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
From sober black to faintest blue - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Faint as sunshine-faded ghosts - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Only a faint path strewn with lupine - Philip Levine "Gospel"
Echo in faint rose over the pavement - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
With shadows faintly crimson - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"
Hears Dawn's faint footfall - James Russell Lowell "Phoebe"
Faint footfalls and soft shadows - Edwin Markham "The Valley"
Faint touches of the Final Truth - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Of wilting plants and fainting flowers - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
When fainting heroes beg for bread - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Their pulses beat to fainter music - Charlotte Mew "On the Asylum Road"
The faint laughter of ghosts - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Faint fires of the setting stars - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
The burning stars, the fainting hours - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"
Faint rings the parrot's cry - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Life's fainting pilgrims - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
The faint brown of a martyr's soil - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Full of faint light but golden - Ezra Pound "The Coming of War: Actaeon"
Melt into a faintly honey-scented mist - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"
Faint shadows on the arc - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"
Faint warm fog unlifting - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"
Faint beneath the kiss of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
The faint gold light of evening - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Fades with faint quiverings - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
The faint cadence of some fairy song - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
Faint tints of long delicious light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
Out of the distance a faint, keen breath - Edward Shanks "The Halt"
But a faint shadow of uncertain light - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"
Faint as a muted violin - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"
Fainter with fear of the fires - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"
Cold and clean as her faint salt flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Fainting on the shores of Dawn - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"
When brave hearts bleed and faint ones break - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Steering a crosstown bus is not for the faint - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Faintly on the stone symbols of his desire - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Where fainting incense clouds the heavy air - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"
Faintest breath of flowers stirred - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Faint with one music - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"
Full flooded on the fainting sands - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
In the faint glare of the new moon - Charles Wright "Natura Morta"
From the time when stars are faint - Francis Brett Young "Before Action"
Whose faint flames vanish quite - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Some far faint-gleaming hour of Hell - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"
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stars faint and dancing - Alise Alousi "Bite It"
Sleep's mellow horns are faintly calling - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"
That faint, persistent whisper that drives one to speak - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Faint interlocking tentacles of sound - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Fear of quiet waters and of faint twilights - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Walk towards a faint murmur of water - Russell Brakefield "Myth"
That Fainter Stars Seem Brilliant - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"
Faint before the truth - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
Waiting the zephyr's first faint kiss - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Water Lilies"
Comes not the faintest whisper of dissent - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Give faint visions of a paradise within - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
In whose chill arms I shiver faint and lost - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
the currency of faint cities eternal - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
A mist on faint winds borne - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Informed by a faint harmonica grieving - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Or help one fainting robin - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life VI"
A summons faint yet absolute - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
The last faint spark of its burning train - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
No faint trembling Flame - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"
As vesper chimes grow dimmer and more faint - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
With faint drum-tones of thunder - John Gould Fletcher "Mutability"
With faint rememberings of hours - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"
Find some faint loveliness unseen - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
The faint flowing speech of the friendly blue - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Lay faint on the Summer fields - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Whose light is faint as the moon in a cloudy night - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
From vivid crimson paled to fainter gloss - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Comes the faint Persephone trailing through the dew - Katherine Hale "Sign to Trespassers"
The burden of that faint and melancholy lay - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Whose flickering grace faints on the outmost rings of space - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"
Faint drums and hungry insects - Conrad Hilberry "Mario"
The faint but certain star of destiny - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
When the faint but certain star of destiny burned clear - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
A pair of stars, faint pins of light - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Faint streaks of doubtful light - "Hours of Childhood"
The birds sing faint broken songs - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"
A faint tinkling melody, warped with time - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Sated with a faint breath of music - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Faint with the hot sun - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"
Fluttering among the faint Olympians - John Keats "Psyche"
Creation isn't for the faint of heart - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"
No faintest gust of life - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
The brown bees murmur faint dreams - Archibald Lampman "April"
The moon falls fainting on the sky - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
From sober black to faintest blue - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Faint as sunshine-faded ghosts - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Only a faint path strewn with lupine - Philip Levine "Gospel"
Echo in faint rose over the pavement - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
With shadows faintly crimson - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"
Hears Dawn's faint footfall - James Russell Lowell "Phoebe"
Faint footfalls and soft shadows - Edwin Markham "The Valley"
Faint touches of the Final Truth - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Of wilting plants and fainting flowers - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
When fainting heroes beg for bread - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Their pulses beat to fainter music - Charlotte Mew "On the Asylum Road"
The faint laughter of ghosts - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Faint fires of the setting stars - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
The burning stars, the fainting hours - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"
Faint rings the parrot's cry - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Life's fainting pilgrims - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
The faint brown of a martyr's soil - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Full of faint light but golden - Ezra Pound "The Coming of War: Actaeon"
Melt into a faintly honey-scented mist - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"
Faint shadows on the arc - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"
Faint warm fog unlifting - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"
Faint beneath the kiss of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
The faint gold light of evening - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Fades with faint quiverings - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
The faint cadence of some fairy song - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
Faint tints of long delicious light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
Out of the distance a faint, keen breath - Edward Shanks "The Halt"
But a faint shadow of uncertain light - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"
Faint as a muted violin - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"
Fainter with fear of the fires - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"
Cold and clean as her faint salt flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Fainting on the shores of Dawn - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"
When brave hearts bleed and faint ones break - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Steering a crosstown bus is not for the faint - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Faintly on the stone symbols of his desire - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Where fainting incense clouds the heavy air - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"
Faintest breath of flowers stirred - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Faint with one music - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"
Full flooded on the fainting sands - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
In the faint glare of the new moon - Charles Wright "Natura Morta"
From the time when stars are faint - Francis Brett Young "Before Action"
Whose faint flames vanish quite - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Some far faint-gleaming hour of Hell - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"
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