Potential Titles: Seem
Jul. 4th, 2011 02:16 pmVenus seems so kind from afar - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
Will later make the illusion seem cruel - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"
Though all expressiveness seems overdressed - Natalie Clifford Barney "Apology"
Their plowing seemed but doomed to fail - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
And every star seemed listening - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
That Fainter Stars Seem Brilliant - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"
Other eyes and tones seem cold - N.C. Brooks, A.M. "The Waters of Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
Everything seems romantic in Alaska - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
Darkling bitter waters seemed to stay the prow - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Let men be what they seem - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
The art that makes the lock seem weak - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Menagerie" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.9, July 1886]
And seem from all restrictions free - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
And dim in quicksands seems to fly - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
No longer will seem fables in your eyes - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Seemed to choose my door - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXI"
Two seeming candles shine - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"
Your gold makes you seem wise - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"
Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"
If you assist him, you will seem corrupt - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Whether I seem to utter truth or falsehood - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The world seemed so big and so still - Hannah G. Fernald "Pretending" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
And the sun by its own power seems to be undone - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
Seem'd to fear for place and power - "The Ghost of Chatham"
And God once more seems kind - Ivor Gurney "Letters"
Of joys that seem better forgot - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
Seemingly endless options of worship - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"
Till circling air seems drunken quite - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"
Wish and its possession seemed the same - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Until thunder seemed impossible - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
When e'en the giant mountain seemed to reel - Alfred Lambourne "Plet: A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch"
Till the roots of my vision seems torn - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
Resemble not the panther's treacherous seeming - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Seem a rebuke to the light - Anthony Madrid "Quinceanera"
Whether autumn browns seem dreary - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Things in this crevasse between to seem and be - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
And desolation seems to own the ground - D.M. Matheson "An Elegy Written in Richmond"
Mysteries that seem beyond life's bar - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Where rhetoric seems reason - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
That seemed transparent - W.S. Merwin "A Codex"
Ghostly drums that only seem to beat - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
My scattered parts of seemings, stories, splinters - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"
The water you sipped seemed dry - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
While still this truth seemed strange - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"
That can make any lie seem true - Achy Obejas "Conceits"
It seems they were all cheated - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
The future must have seemed weightless - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Seeming freedom stained by fears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"
Seems nearer and more bright - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
Whose entire life seemed wrong - Po Chu-i "My Thatch Hut Newly Built Below Incense-Burner Peak, I Chant My Thoughts, Then Copy Them Onto the Rocks" transl. by David Hinton
With that light seeming which deceit can give - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The dead years seemed fallen dim and strange - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
If my conscience seem an idle joke - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Knowledge that I seemed incapable of retaining - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"
Now sorrow seemed ascendent - Clinton Scollard "Night by the Sea"
Make grief's length seem stronger - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
Dead ends that seem like lucky breaks - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
Who seem so strangely out of place - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Whose feet seemed shod with wind - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Dreams that strive to seem awake - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Half seems wishing it had stayed - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
From dreams with seem to haunt it yet - Trevor "Too Late" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
And their cattle seemed to understand - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
There seemed no end to the pretty things - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Made thirst seem bitter-sweet - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"
Your eyes that seem to cast starlight - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
January's loud-seeming sun - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Unseemly.
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Will later make the illusion seem cruel - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"
Though all expressiveness seems overdressed - Natalie Clifford Barney "Apology"
Their plowing seemed but doomed to fail - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
And every star seemed listening - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
That Fainter Stars Seem Brilliant - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"
Other eyes and tones seem cold - N.C. Brooks, A.M. "The Waters of Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
Everything seems romantic in Alaska - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
Darkling bitter waters seemed to stay the prow - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Let men be what they seem - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
The art that makes the lock seem weak - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Menagerie" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.9, July 1886]
And seem from all restrictions free - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
And dim in quicksands seems to fly - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
No longer will seem fables in your eyes - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Seemed to choose my door - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXI"
Two seeming candles shine - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"
Your gold makes you seem wise - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"
Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"
If you assist him, you will seem corrupt - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Whether I seem to utter truth or falsehood - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The world seemed so big and so still - Hannah G. Fernald "Pretending" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
And the sun by its own power seems to be undone - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
Seem'd to fear for place and power - "The Ghost of Chatham"
And God once more seems kind - Ivor Gurney "Letters"
Of joys that seem better forgot - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
Seemingly endless options of worship - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"
Till circling air seems drunken quite - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"
Wish and its possession seemed the same - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Until thunder seemed impossible - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
When e'en the giant mountain seemed to reel - Alfred Lambourne "Plet: A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch"
Till the roots of my vision seems torn - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
Resemble not the panther's treacherous seeming - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Seem a rebuke to the light - Anthony Madrid "Quinceanera"
Whether autumn browns seem dreary - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Things in this crevasse between to seem and be - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
And desolation seems to own the ground - D.M. Matheson "An Elegy Written in Richmond"
Mysteries that seem beyond life's bar - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Where rhetoric seems reason - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
That seemed transparent - W.S. Merwin "A Codex"
Ghostly drums that only seem to beat - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
My scattered parts of seemings, stories, splinters - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"
The water you sipped seemed dry - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
While still this truth seemed strange - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"
That can make any lie seem true - Achy Obejas "Conceits"
It seems they were all cheated - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
The future must have seemed weightless - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Seeming freedom stained by fears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"
Seems nearer and more bright - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
Whose entire life seemed wrong - Po Chu-i "My Thatch Hut Newly Built Below Incense-Burner Peak, I Chant My Thoughts, Then Copy Them Onto the Rocks" transl. by David Hinton
With that light seeming which deceit can give - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The dead years seemed fallen dim and strange - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
If my conscience seem an idle joke - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Knowledge that I seemed incapable of retaining - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"
Now sorrow seemed ascendent - Clinton Scollard "Night by the Sea"
Make grief's length seem stronger - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
Dead ends that seem like lucky breaks - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
Who seem so strangely out of place - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Whose feet seemed shod with wind - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Dreams that strive to seem awake - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Half seems wishing it had stayed - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
From dreams with seem to haunt it yet - Trevor "Too Late" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
And their cattle seemed to understand - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
There seemed no end to the pretty things - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Made thirst seem bitter-sweet - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"
Your eyes that seem to cast starlight - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
January's loud-seeming sun - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Unseemly.
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