Potential Titles: Curse
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A horrid oath and a muttered curse - Lennox Amott "Drink"
The changeling cursed with a quickness too sharp - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Cursed them for their treacheries - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring
No choice but to curse the coming waters - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"
Cursing the fence of pain - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"
And always some cursed omen - Elizabeth Bartlett "Jinxed"
Reached only by oaths and curses - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
And curse her for a lamia - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
The thieves that each priest has cursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Crash into night like ghostly curses - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Gave out petals inked with curses - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"
Had fathomed her curse - Geoffrey Brock "Father Countries"
When I curse the rising sun - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"
For this crime this is the curse - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Curse for a Nation"
The cursed are in the world - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
A curse for all its fruit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The flood of salt curses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The curse of his people pursue them - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
The curse to know one's self unknown - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A curse to the heart of the night - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Both wild curses - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
The sun that scorched the cursed harvest - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
Of curse in bone and kin - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
With muttering curses stung - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
The liar's curse upon my head - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
If To-morrow curse or bless - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
The clamor of gaunt curses - Mitchell Dawson "Leather Lane"
I would not curse the wind - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
To curse all the locks in our world - Aziz Isa Elkun "Chimenqush--A Flower Bird" transl. by author
Leave behind the breaking of curses - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
A curse too bitter and wild for the broken heart - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
When asking curses with my lips - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Men gathered together to curse her - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
With his last breath cursed them all - John Woodcock Graves "John Peel"
A curse for treaties, bonds and laws - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"
Tribulation shall curse thy blessings - David Gray "Ezekiel"
Away from people and the curse of interaction - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
Crossed through knots of a curse - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
The cursed country of the fox - Joy Harjo "Grace"
And curse themselves silent - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"
And I alone was cursed and loathed - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Cursed like a troop of demons - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"
The muttered curse of dying men - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"
Cursed with your father's mind - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"
Cursing with a mouth full of iron - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Cursed her bright beauty - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The red eyes of a friend you cursed - Mary Karr "All This and More"
Setting bloom where curse is planted - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"
And the curse of gold was dead - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Cursed too by no mere vacant breath - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
The thunder of their curse - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Who killed the curse and broke the ban - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
The curse of murder, craft, and crime - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Cursing the ancestors who brought us here - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
Unrelenting as the curse of love - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
I've been practicing curses more than half my life - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
Curses from their rookery fly - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"
The ghost of his inhuman curse - George Martin "Marguerite"
Burning curse and bitter bane - George Martin "Marguerite"
Curses being the implements of gods - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"
Of the singeing curse of Cain - John Masefield "One of the Bo'sun's Yarns"
Too tightly pressed for curses - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"
From the cursed lips of weak men - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Rigged with curses dark - John Milton "Lycidas"
No curses cover this air - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
the curses cannot be washed off - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
More than curses for the thirsty hyenas - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
A curse inside nautilus - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"
A cursed bouquet of love-me-nots - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata: On Faith"
Go and curse your star - Dorothy Parker "To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady"
Set forth their eloquent curses - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Our New Horse"
Concludes with Cupid's curse - George Peele "Cupid's Curse"
On all her curses reach - Jack Prelutsky "The Witch"
Dying curse and choking prayer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Blessing and cursing are born as twins - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Drums rattling like curses - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Their cursing squadrons - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"
Curse the Nero who planned this gory dance - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"
Obscures a deeper curse - Kay Ryan "Winter Fear"
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"
All pleasure lost in cursing once - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Falls ancient as the curse of Cain - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
To curse their thankless task ahead - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"
With eyes that cursed her very stones - Frederick George Scott "Dion"
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
The white curse of clearer day - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
A thousand thronging curses burst - William Somerville "The Chase"
Discordant Notes I mean to curse - John Spateman "War"
The cursing wives of the dark - Frank Stanford "Vanish"
Or take the curse from off thy soul - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
A victim of the curse of thought - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
Freed the elephant from his curse - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 221: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The sound of a curse on the earth - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"
Curse this day of hunting for a wolf - Russell Thorburn "Tracking the Wolf"
The primal curse upon his head - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Labor"
Curses a world he cannot mend - "Turvey Top"
God's curse is on the thief - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"
A brother's curse will find him - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"
Working out the curse of Cain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Already cursed with offspring - William Carlos Williams "Mujer"
Which all their curs'd malevolence defies - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Expose a spine of cursed commas - Nicholas Wong "On Insertion"
Consumes her like a curse - Elinor Wylie "Beauty"
A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Cursing the haggard, hungry surf - Francis Brett Young "Lettermore"
The curses chasing after you - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #7" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
All tattooed with the curse of fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Uncursed amid the harpy tribe - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
The unbaptized, unfinished, and uncursed - Derek Walcott "White Magic"
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A horrid oath and a muttered curse - Lennox Amott "Drink"
The changeling cursed with a quickness too sharp - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Cursed them for their treacheries - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring
No choice but to curse the coming waters - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"
Cursing the fence of pain - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"
And always some cursed omen - Elizabeth Bartlett "Jinxed"
Reached only by oaths and curses - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
And curse her for a lamia - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
The thieves that each priest has cursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Crash into night like ghostly curses - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Gave out petals inked with curses - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"
Had fathomed her curse - Geoffrey Brock "Father Countries"
When I curse the rising sun - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"
For this crime this is the curse - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Curse for a Nation"
The cursed are in the world - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
A curse for all its fruit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The flood of salt curses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The curse of his people pursue them - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
The curse to know one's self unknown - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A curse to the heart of the night - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Both wild curses - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
The sun that scorched the cursed harvest - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
Of curse in bone and kin - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
With muttering curses stung - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
The liar's curse upon my head - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
If To-morrow curse or bless - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
The clamor of gaunt curses - Mitchell Dawson "Leather Lane"
I would not curse the wind - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
To curse all the locks in our world - Aziz Isa Elkun "Chimenqush--A Flower Bird" transl. by author
Leave behind the breaking of curses - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
A curse too bitter and wild for the broken heart - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
When asking curses with my lips - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Men gathered together to curse her - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
With his last breath cursed them all - John Woodcock Graves "John Peel"
A curse for treaties, bonds and laws - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"
Tribulation shall curse thy blessings - David Gray "Ezekiel"
Away from people and the curse of interaction - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
Crossed through knots of a curse - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
The cursed country of the fox - Joy Harjo "Grace"
And curse themselves silent - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"
And I alone was cursed and loathed - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Cursed like a troop of demons - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"
The muttered curse of dying men - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"
Cursed with your father's mind - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"
Cursing with a mouth full of iron - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Cursed her bright beauty - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The red eyes of a friend you cursed - Mary Karr "All This and More"
Setting bloom where curse is planted - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"
And the curse of gold was dead - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Cursed too by no mere vacant breath - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
The thunder of their curse - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Who killed the curse and broke the ban - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
The curse of murder, craft, and crime - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Cursing the ancestors who brought us here - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
Unrelenting as the curse of love - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
I've been practicing curses more than half my life - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
Curses from their rookery fly - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"
The ghost of his inhuman curse - George Martin "Marguerite"
Burning curse and bitter bane - George Martin "Marguerite"
Curses being the implements of gods - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"
Of the singeing curse of Cain - John Masefield "One of the Bo'sun's Yarns"
Too tightly pressed for curses - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"
From the cursed lips of weak men - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Rigged with curses dark - John Milton "Lycidas"
No curses cover this air - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
the curses cannot be washed off - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
More than curses for the thirsty hyenas - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
A curse inside nautilus - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"
A cursed bouquet of love-me-nots - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata: On Faith"
Go and curse your star - Dorothy Parker "To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady"
Set forth their eloquent curses - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Our New Horse"
Concludes with Cupid's curse - George Peele "Cupid's Curse"
On all her curses reach - Jack Prelutsky "The Witch"
Dying curse and choking prayer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Blessing and cursing are born as twins - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Drums rattling like curses - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Their cursing squadrons - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"
Curse the Nero who planned this gory dance - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"
Obscures a deeper curse - Kay Ryan "Winter Fear"
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"
All pleasure lost in cursing once - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Falls ancient as the curse of Cain - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
To curse their thankless task ahead - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"
With eyes that cursed her very stones - Frederick George Scott "Dion"
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
The white curse of clearer day - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
A thousand thronging curses burst - William Somerville "The Chase"
Discordant Notes I mean to curse - John Spateman "War"
The cursing wives of the dark - Frank Stanford "Vanish"
Or take the curse from off thy soul - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
A victim of the curse of thought - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
Freed the elephant from his curse - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 221: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The sound of a curse on the earth - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"
Curse this day of hunting for a wolf - Russell Thorburn "Tracking the Wolf"
The primal curse upon his head - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Labor"
Curses a world he cannot mend - "Turvey Top"
God's curse is on the thief - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"
A brother's curse will find him - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"
Working out the curse of Cain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Already cursed with offspring - William Carlos Williams "Mujer"
Which all their curs'd malevolence defies - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Expose a spine of cursed commas - Nicholas Wong "On Insertion"
Consumes her like a curse - Elinor Wylie "Beauty"
A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Cursing the haggard, hungry surf - Francis Brett Young "Lettermore"
The curses chasing after you - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #7" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
All tattooed with the curse of fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Uncursed amid the harpy tribe - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
The unbaptized, unfinished, and uncursed - Derek Walcott "White Magic"
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