Potential Titles: Seem

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Venus 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"

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'"

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"

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"

Until thunder seemed impossible - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"

Till the roots of my vision seems torn - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

Seem a rebuke to the light - Anthony Madrid "Quinceanera"

Whether autumn browns seem dreary - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

And desolation seems to own the ground - D.M. Matheson "An Elegy Written in Richmond"

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."

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]

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]

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"


January's loud-seeming sun - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"


Unseemly.


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