Potential Titles: Altar
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somethingdarkerOn the altar of our ineffable cause - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
They raised an altar of abandoned tires - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
A rocket on this altar - Kelli Russell Agodon "Snapshot of a Lump"
The tunnel to their altar opened in his chest - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Droning bees at the altar - Willis Boyd Allen "Sic Itur Ad Astra"
Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"
Upon the altar stone of truth - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Alight on the altar of making - Paola Bruni "The Lesson"
Starlings and sparrows build their nest in the altar - Chu Yuan "An Unhappy Time" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
What incense on what altars - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
An altar in the wilderness - Benjamin Copeland "Communion"
The font, the altar, and the tomb - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"
Lives left at the altar of knowledge - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
From altars of the universe - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"
Save where the altar stands - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
The altar's weekday thrift of gold - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
Other Incense on their Altars blaz'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
On whose dread Altar breath'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Before cold shrines and at dead altars kneel - George Allan England "Ricordatevi Di Mi!"
Nor any altars in the sky - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 13"
Strange altars of the midnight - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Temples and altars sunkindled for me - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Building the altars of their souls - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"
Prayers to altars of cold death - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
The red altars of a crumbling world - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Priestess of altar fire - Ellen Glasgow "Mary"
From shreds of shattered altars - Arthur Guiterman "The Twilight of the Gods"
Supermarkets and malls, the altars of money - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
To Ambition's altar led - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Strange fire upon his altars burn - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
As dust upon the altar - Faylita Hicks "Coded Binaries"
Arch and altar and amaranth stair - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"
Altar where all truth is dispensed - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
Making directly for the woodland altar - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Stronger than their houses & altars - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
To the year's first altar step - Archibald Lampman "April"
Our loves on altars we had burned - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Ghosts of Revellers"
So I could worship at the altars of birds - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, xxx"
What have we left at the altar of sorrow? - Cecilia Llompart "Omens"
To burn our souls before altars dim - Amy Lowell "New York at Night"
Built an unnamed altar in my heart - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Sacrifices at the altar of your need - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Rises at the altar like a kindled spark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Below the altar of the hills - John McCrae "The Dying of Pere Pierre"
Shines on us like altar fires - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"
On whose lips the altar coal of inspiration burned - George L. Moore "Keats"
Places his lonely altars on them - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The ancient altar of the moment - Alice Notley "Individual Time"
Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Where firesides and altars govern hearts - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Stir the ashes of our altars - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
The bells of the altar lilies - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Twilight Fancy"
Another flower for the altar - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
The altar where eternal bargains are struck - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Our dreams bleed out upon strange altars - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"
Ready for a new configuration of my altar - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
An altar dignifying the god of chance - Charles Simic "The Altar"
That still survive their altars by their spells - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Fresh altars in a distant sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Dry lichens on the altar steps - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Nor altars builded to Oblivion - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
Where golden altars fume - George Sterling "The Chariots of Dawn"
Altars of the buried sun made red - George Sterling "Duandon"
Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Before the sapphire altar of the sea - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"
A sumac grows on the altar - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
The altar where I've poured myself out - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 3: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To the altar of my waking - Z.G. Tomaszewski "If I Last the Night"
The ivory altars of our lost pilgrimage - Ridgely Torrence "Santa Barbara Beach"
Armor donned for the altars of the land - Tu Fu "Passing Chao-ling Again" transl. by Burton Watson
I led to the altar of truth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
Altars to their souls' fine fires - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"
Upon the altar of my heart's despair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"
Lining the way to an old altar - William Carlos Williams "March"
The mask and smokeless altars interpose - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"
Steadfast as the altar candle's flame - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
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They raised an altar of abandoned tires - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
A rocket on this altar - Kelli Russell Agodon "Snapshot of a Lump"
The tunnel to their altar opened in his chest - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Droning bees at the altar - Willis Boyd Allen "Sic Itur Ad Astra"
Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"
Upon the altar stone of truth - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Alight on the altar of making - Paola Bruni "The Lesson"
Starlings and sparrows build their nest in the altar - Chu Yuan "An Unhappy Time" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
What incense on what altars - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
An altar in the wilderness - Benjamin Copeland "Communion"
The font, the altar, and the tomb - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"
Lives left at the altar of knowledge - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
From altars of the universe - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"
Save where the altar stands - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
The altar's weekday thrift of gold - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
Other Incense on their Altars blaz'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
On whose dread Altar breath'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Before cold shrines and at dead altars kneel - George Allan England "Ricordatevi Di Mi!"
Nor any altars in the sky - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 13"
Strange altars of the midnight - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Temples and altars sunkindled for me - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Building the altars of their souls - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"
Prayers to altars of cold death - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
The red altars of a crumbling world - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Priestess of altar fire - Ellen Glasgow "Mary"
From shreds of shattered altars - Arthur Guiterman "The Twilight of the Gods"
Supermarkets and malls, the altars of money - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
To Ambition's altar led - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Strange fire upon his altars burn - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
As dust upon the altar - Faylita Hicks "Coded Binaries"
Arch and altar and amaranth stair - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"
Altar where all truth is dispensed - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
Making directly for the woodland altar - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Stronger than their houses & altars - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
To the year's first altar step - Archibald Lampman "April"
Our loves on altars we had burned - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Ghosts of Revellers"
So I could worship at the altars of birds - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, xxx"
What have we left at the altar of sorrow? - Cecilia Llompart "Omens"
To burn our souls before altars dim - Amy Lowell "New York at Night"
Built an unnamed altar in my heart - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Sacrifices at the altar of your need - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Rises at the altar like a kindled spark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Below the altar of the hills - John McCrae "The Dying of Pere Pierre"
Shines on us like altar fires - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"
On whose lips the altar coal of inspiration burned - George L. Moore "Keats"
Places his lonely altars on them - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The ancient altar of the moment - Alice Notley "Individual Time"
Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Where firesides and altars govern hearts - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Stir the ashes of our altars - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
The bells of the altar lilies - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Twilight Fancy"
Another flower for the altar - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
The altar where eternal bargains are struck - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Our dreams bleed out upon strange altars - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"
Ready for a new configuration of my altar - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
An altar dignifying the god of chance - Charles Simic "The Altar"
That still survive their altars by their spells - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Fresh altars in a distant sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Dry lichens on the altar steps - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Nor altars builded to Oblivion - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
Where golden altars fume - George Sterling "The Chariots of Dawn"
Altars of the buried sun made red - George Sterling "Duandon"
Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Before the sapphire altar of the sea - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"
A sumac grows on the altar - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
The altar where I've poured myself out - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 3: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To the altar of my waking - Z.G. Tomaszewski "If I Last the Night"
The ivory altars of our lost pilgrimage - Ridgely Torrence "Santa Barbara Beach"
Armor donned for the altars of the land - Tu Fu "Passing Chao-ling Again" transl. by Burton Watson
I led to the altar of truth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
Altars to their souls' fine fires - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"
Upon the altar of my heart's despair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"
Lining the way to an old altar - William Carlos Williams "March"
The mask and smokeless altars interpose - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"
Steadfast as the altar candle's flame - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
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