Potential Titles: Sacred

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The pomp of sacred senates - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Between sacred narrow canyons - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"

Who came to walk this sacred aisle - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"

In the portals of the sacred hall - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

Sacred is the trust of faith - Cora C. Bass "Chill Not the Heart that Trusts Thee"

Gather by the sacred dust - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Day"

The sacred drops to pity due - James Beattie "Elegy"

That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

Hold a portion of your sacred gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Shorn of sacred meaning - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Symbols"

To the shores of the sacred stream - F. O. Call "An Idol in a Shop Window"

Three boughs of sacred laurel and myrtle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Desperate for something sacred - Marianne Chan "Seafood City"

Arise in a sacred scorn - Helen Gray Cone "A Chant of Love for England"

Out of such sacred thirst - Olive Tilford Dargan "Path Flower"

His sacred rites and mandates we obey - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Thy sacred emblems to partake - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXVII: Indian Summer"

Feed on a living sorrow's sacredness - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

Greening aisles of sacred shade - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

And strike a sacred horror from the pit - John Dryden "Prologue: To the University of Oxford. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of 'The Silent Woman'"

The Sacred Hazel's blooms are shed - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Hinting the sacred mystery of rest - Max Eastman "Hours"

Across the sea you bore the sacred fire - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

Drink water from the sacred canals - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

Fixed the sacred crown inside your sacred court - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

Overseeing the sacred sea - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 23. E-Abshagala, the Temple of Ninmarki in Guaba" transl. by Sophus Helle

Sacred sanctuary and sturdy shrine - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 29. E-Mah, the Temple of Ninhursanga and Asghi in Adab" transl. by Sophus Helle

To hide the profane from the sacred - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Of Chaos and the Sacred Seven - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

In memory's sacred bower - George Blackstone Field "Forever"

To avoid use of his sacred name - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"

Time to craft sacred again - Nikita Gill "The Erinyes: Vengeance-skinned Fury"

If still the sacred embers burn - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

Knew some touch of sacred wonder - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"

The bird of sacred gardens - Hafiz "The Divan XXXIX" (translated by H. Bicknell)

The sacred world lifts up its head to notice - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

The pledge forever runs to guard their sacred fires - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The sacred groves of your body - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

Upon the sacred name of Song - William D. Howells "Prelude (to an Early Book of Verse)"

With shrieks the sacred aisles resound - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]

{too sacred to call it home} - fahima ife "a street in hollygrove"

Dusted her computer with sacred moth wings - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

That burns on cupid's sacred shrine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

Fair calm and sacred rage - Lionel Johnson "The Age of a Dream"

The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

Touched the sacred springs of grief - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

A magic bed of sacred dittany - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Had so rich a store of Sacred Wreaths - Anne Killigrew "Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another"

A sacred bond of sympathy 'twixt sea and land - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Sacred vials of learning - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

Within the sacred bowl of life - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"

The sheaves of sacred wheat - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Vivid rays tinged sacred Jordan's breast - Mrs. Leprohon (nee Rosanna Eleanor Mullins) "Abraham's Sacrifice"

They feed on the sacred raisins - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Pictured in fire upon the sacred pages - Francis J. Lys "On Re-reading 'Ruth'"

By virtue of the sacred fire - E.M. "Part III. The Lathe of Morpheus"

The manna's sacred dew distil - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"

To hear that sacred laughter - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"

That burns with sacred fire - George Marion McClellan "Love is a Flame"

Sisters of the sacred well - John Milton "Lycidas"

These sacred names drained of their blood - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

Sacred stone of our kitchens - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Maize" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Knew hunger like a sacred text - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Germinated in cities of sacred pods - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Gave her eyes a sacred light - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

A sacred labyrinth of circles - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

The sacred cloister of our souls - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

For thought's most sacred cells - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

Seven sacred seals begem - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Where sacred fires once burned - E.J. Pratt "The Hidden Scar"

Through a strange and sacred radiance - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Will"

In sacred strains my soul survives my dust - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

But once the sacred summons rings - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

The mystic tide of sacred song - John Reade "Pictures of Memory"

Veils of cloud and sacred deep repose - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"

Stored like sacred grain - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"

Who spilled the sacred oil - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"

The solemn stars, the sacred night - Charles G.D. Roberts "Under the Pillars of the Sky"

And the sacred knot thereon - T.W. Rolleston "The Dead at Clonmacnois"

Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"

Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"

Spoke the sacred names of Thebes - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"

Wrestled with God for the sacred fire - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

That sacred freshness of the heart - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Whispering terrific and sacred words - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

The spirit level, sacred chart - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

A sacred syllable rising - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"

All the sacred bells rejoice - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Sacred nymphs from temples near - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

With trifles sacred to the heart - Carmen Sylva "A Room"

Constantly destroyed by the closeness of the sacred - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

The throne sacred to oppression grown - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Hovering over sacred isles - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

In its sacredness destroyed - John Updike "Endpoint"

While sullen sacred silence reigns - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

The sacred way to Nebuchadnezzar's throne - William Carlos Williams "March"

Sacred solace and enchanting spell - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

And sacred to the sky - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"


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