Potential Titles: Torture
Aug. 6th, 2011 01:04 amAnd tortured hands so pale - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
Hope's tortured sails and doubts - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Taste the elegant tortures of Despair - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
A glittering torture of cold stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
A torture in each nerve - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Within a room of tortured angles - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"
Sky chained to torture - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
Where the tortured trumpets scream aloud - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Break in tortured whirling drifts - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The reason tortured Tantalus is baited - Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel"
Sobbing in torture of that vivid fire - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Writhing and blasting in the tortured frame - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Tortuous tunnels walled with light - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
That gemmed torture of seed - Rae Gouirand "Arils on Velvet"
Tortured syntax, thorned thoughts - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Day and its thousand torturing moments - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
Through tunnels of torture - Kim Unsong "Nirvanic Rapture"
Tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
This grief of tortured flowers - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Hide my tortured soul - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Many a tortured life is thirsting for a cooling draught - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Threads of tortured silver - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"
What your tortured memory may disclose - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
In the middle of a tortured sea - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Tortured by storms to shapes as rude - Shelley "The Recollections"
Out of the torture and tumult of inchoate Time - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"
Through the torture of water and blood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
What tortured nights have gone before - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"
Do not long for tortured harmonies - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
What a torturer wears to a press conference - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
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Hope's tortured sails and doubts - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Taste the elegant tortures of Despair - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
A glittering torture of cold stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
A torture in each nerve - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Within a room of tortured angles - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"
Sky chained to torture - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
Where the tortured trumpets scream aloud - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Break in tortured whirling drifts - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The reason tortured Tantalus is baited - Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel"
Sobbing in torture of that vivid fire - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Writhing and blasting in the tortured frame - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Tortuous tunnels walled with light - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
That gemmed torture of seed - Rae Gouirand "Arils on Velvet"
Tortured syntax, thorned thoughts - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Day and its thousand torturing moments - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
Through tunnels of torture - Kim Unsong "Nirvanic Rapture"
Tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
This grief of tortured flowers - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Hide my tortured soul - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Many a tortured life is thirsting for a cooling draught - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Threads of tortured silver - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"
What your tortured memory may disclose - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
In the middle of a tortured sea - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Tortured by storms to shapes as rude - Shelley "The Recollections"
Out of the torture and tumult of inchoate Time - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"
Through the torture of water and blood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
What tortured nights have gone before - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"
Do not long for tortured harmonies - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
What a torturer wears to a press conference - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
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