Potential Titles: Short
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somethingdarkerShort fires and stubble on a monsoon coast - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"
Tall order but short notice - Julia Alvarez "Grand Baby"
The short, crooked thumb of long experience - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"
Short spasms on the brink of deep chasms - Hilaire Belloc "The Chamois"
Promised us shortly two millions a week - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
Cut short her foeman's breath - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde
Stopped clocks and voices cut short - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Your tense, short space of blazing sun - H.D. "From the Masque"
Time's short changeful voyage o'er - Delta "Requiem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXIII, v.LXII, Sept. 1847]
Shorter than a snake's delay - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXV: The Mushroom"
The shrill short crying of the sea-lark - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"
The clouds of hawthorn keep so short a state - John Drinkwater "Birthright"
In my short memory - Safia Elhillio "how to say"
Too short to reach the clothesline - Sarah Getty "The Wash"
Thought the longer thoughts and gone the shorter way - Ernest Hemingway "Chapter Heading"
Ugly short infantry of the mind - Ernest Hemingway "Mitraigliatrice"
Climbed a hill as light fell short - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Through one short space of fretfulness - James Weldon Johnson "Life"
Twirling in the lee of the short hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Dragging the links of my shortening chain - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"
The fox's short sharp bark - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
The city burns to the short - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Because the eye has a short shadow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fundamentalism"
Our voices are short and would get lost on the journey - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
Wore her hair short like a scream - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Not less though shorter lived - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [The wind tears up the sun]"
Plies the hooked staff and the shortened scythe - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Too short and shining were those hours - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Grain still too short to be crushed - Su Tung-p'o "Rhyming with Tzu-yu's 'Treading the Green'" transl. by Burton Watson
For a short swift eternity - Edward Thomas "Celandine"
To shorten the shadow - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Seven yards short of immortality - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"
Emotional shorthand and jade cockroaches - Marianne Moore "England"
A star shorting out and out - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
In short-lived moods of thoughtful silence - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"
On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"
A short-term loan of agate - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
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Tall order but short notice - Julia Alvarez "Grand Baby"
The short, crooked thumb of long experience - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"
Short spasms on the brink of deep chasms - Hilaire Belloc "The Chamois"
Promised us shortly two millions a week - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
Cut short her foeman's breath - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde
Stopped clocks and voices cut short - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Your tense, short space of blazing sun - H.D. "From the Masque"
Time's short changeful voyage o'er - Delta "Requiem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXIII, v.LXII, Sept. 1847]
Shorter than a snake's delay - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXV: The Mushroom"
The shrill short crying of the sea-lark - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"
The clouds of hawthorn keep so short a state - John Drinkwater "Birthright"
In my short memory - Safia Elhillio "how to say"
Too short to reach the clothesline - Sarah Getty "The Wash"
Thought the longer thoughts and gone the shorter way - Ernest Hemingway "Chapter Heading"
Ugly short infantry of the mind - Ernest Hemingway "Mitraigliatrice"
Climbed a hill as light fell short - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Through one short space of fretfulness - James Weldon Johnson "Life"
Twirling in the lee of the short hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Dragging the links of my shortening chain - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"
The fox's short sharp bark - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
The city burns to the short - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Because the eye has a short shadow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fundamentalism"
Our voices are short and would get lost on the journey - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
Wore her hair short like a scream - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Not less though shorter lived - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [The wind tears up the sun]"
Plies the hooked staff and the shortened scythe - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Too short and shining were those hours - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Grain still too short to be crushed - Su Tung-p'o "Rhyming with Tzu-yu's 'Treading the Green'" transl. by Burton Watson
For a short swift eternity - Edward Thomas "Celandine"
To shorten the shadow - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Seven yards short of immortality - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"
Emotional shorthand and jade cockroaches - Marianne Moore "England"
A star shorting out and out - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
In short-lived moods of thoughtful silence - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"
On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"
A short-term loan of agate - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
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