Potential Titles: Cost

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The costly treasures of the skies - A.L.O.E. "The Willing Sacrifice"

Will curb the cost this judge demands - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

The cost of looking the other way - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"

Your innocence costs too much - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Undervalue the cost of their bodies - Daniel Borzutzky "Managed Diversity"

But those alone may know the cost - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"

True gods sigh for the cost and pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

A costly morsel of sweet tears - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"

A costlier gift than gold - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Know the cost of singed palm and empty fist - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Transmuted at the keen moon's cost - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"

Count the cost of golden laughter - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"

What does it cost to send a postcard to the underworld? - Dana Gioia "Finding a Box of Family Letters"

Ambassadors exchanging costly gifts - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"

In despair to reckon up the bitter cost - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

And heart cannot count the cost - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

At any cost I can recover - Lionel Johnson "Renegade"

The list of gravity's costs - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"

At the cost of systems still breaking - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

In a cost only I would pay - P. H. Low "Ode"

May balance the cost - George Martin "Lines"

Could be loved for what costs us nothing - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"

The tiring task of casting lots on the cost of a human spirit - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

At what unknowable cost - Mary Oliver "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen"

The costliest jewels and handsomest laces - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Lay your costly roses down - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Repays their cost of tears - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"

The cost of a moment overlooked - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

At the cost of all things here - Christina Rossetti "At Last"

Shadow-dance and laugh at the cost - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

And the cost of unearned bread - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

The only rapture worthy of the cost - George Sterling "Harp-Song"

How deep the cost can sink in cold equations - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

The cost of entering a song - Ocean Vuong "Threshold"

Caparisoned at cost beyond all counting - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

A cost to every prize - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"

Who cost not a penny for food - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"


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