Potential Titles: Sell/Sold

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Old markets selling ancient glories - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

If there were dreams to sell - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "Dream-Pedlary"

And sell their bodies to the wind - Russell Brakefield "Halcyon and Her Mortal Lover"

That treason thus could sell us - Robert Burns "Fareweel to A' Our Scottish Fame"

High prices profit those who sell - Lewis Carroll "Tema con Variazioni"

Never would cry my songs to sell - Adelaide Crapsey "The Vendor's Song"

Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

A broken heart to sell - Hafiz "The Divan X" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Sell these bones to the sea - Conrad Hilberry "Sea"

The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

And sell their Reputations passing cheap - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Selling the stars to our mothers - Allison Eir Jenks "War Tribes"

Sell the colors of your sunset - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

Prayers do not sell in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Sell my father's feather bed - "Milking Pails"

Go out to sell light on the roads - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid

Selling uncertain spoils - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Selling the very sinews of their country - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Selling knock-off hopes - Phan Nhien Hao "The City of Ant Nests" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"

In selling hours of dross - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"

Could sell my smile - Gary Soto "The Mona Lisa"

Loveliness to sell - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

Will sell you the rain for a fair price - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"

Selling their tarnished twilights - Iris Tree "Thoughts of London"

Sell your heart off piece by piece - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Still selling to the empty streets - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"


And sold herself for a lie - H.M. Andrews "Song"

sold for poker chips - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"

Chaste paradigms that never sold themselves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"

I sold my early truth - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"

Given for love and sold for utter anguish - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"

Sold me water beside the river - Leonard Cohen "My Teacher"

Bliss is sold just once - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LII"

Till every scoundrel's stock of oaths was sold - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Paid with sighs a plenty and sold for endless rue - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XIII"

Were sold to buy them bread - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"

Sold my Reputation for a Song - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Nothing is real until it can be sold - W.S. Merwin "Journey"

Sold for the snows - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"

Had sold to us alone his birthright - Alice Wellington Rollins "With an Antique"

Love sold me for a single fault - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry

And love was sold upon your lips - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"

Sold the ox to pay taxes - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

Without any payment they are sold - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 79: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The praises sold at truth's expense - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Enduring streets where dreams were bought and sold - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"


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