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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-03-08 03:58 am

Potential Titles: Crime

How the new translation left out my crimes - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"

Beyond the sphere of doubt and crime - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

And fifty thousand unconvicted crimes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"

Midnight darkness, crimes, and blood - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Between nerve and the crime it loves - Tommye Blount "Lycanthropy"

Each a steam-engine of crime - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

For this crime this is the curse - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Curse for a Nation"

Salvation's fount for crimson crimes - John Castillo "Thoughts on Good Friday"

A lexicon of crimes they do in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

At the crime scene of spring - Elaine Equi "National Poetry Month"

all witnesses to the crimes of the crystallizing eye - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

Crimes against the immaculate - James Galvin "Dear May Eighth"

Five crimes at half-a-crown - W.S. Gilbert "Gentle Alice Brown"

And want consorts with crime - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

A crime the prisons wrote for him - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Whence public strife and naked crime - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

Penance for an unknown crime - Elinor Jenkins "Poppyfields"

A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

When leagued with me in crime and punishment - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Bare for the record of a world of crime - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Clock-Tower Bell"

Accomplice of a million crimes - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VII: A Reproach"

Upon horrible crimes and murders ghastly - Henry S. Leigh "Romantic Recollections II"

The curse of murder, craft, and crime - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Pangs at the sight of conquering crime - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"

Crimes that pale the cheek to dream - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

To reckon delay as a crime - George Martin "Lines"

Jurors surveying a crime scene - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

Stands alone in infamy and crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Chicanery's brought to succor darkest crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

As keen for a kiss as a crime - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"

Copper establishes its crimes - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Crimes hidden by the pomegranate - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Scorpions with crime and venom - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A bad acquaintance hurries on a crime - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"

The crime of attending a party or ball - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Held my desperate hand from crime - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

Dried myself in the air of crime - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Crime & punishment made one - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"

A milder sentence on the tyrant's crime - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

Overflowing crop of crime, and woe, and pride - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"

The crime of their imaginations - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"

A crime behind my teeth - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"

The cold old crimes and the deeds thrown by - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Beckoning ghosts of crime and dreams of maddening beauty - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Each crime which can corrupt and spoil the heart - "The Whore"

Which they can hear who meddle not with crime - William Wordsworth "Mutability"

Guilty of crimes we didn't commit - Dean Young "Spring Reign"


In a house of quiet criminals - Claire Millikin "Night Insects"


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