Potential Titles: Tatter
Aug. 2nd, 2011 12:17 amTattered cap held for the pennies - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Banjo"
As the dead years lurch, in tattered clothes - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi
Not everything tattered is ruined - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
To whom sunlight is a tattered pilgrim - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"
Woven from cloth whole and tattered - Bruce Boston "All the Starry Audience"
Tear our sleep to tatters - Rita Boumi-Pappas "The Crow" transl. by Kimon Friar
Wear silence as a tattered shirt - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Like tattered effigies of home - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"
With tinsel lace tarnished and tattered - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Child's Favourite"
The last poor tatters the forests wear - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
Tatters of yesterday and shreds of morrow - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Mendicants"
Tattered outlaw of the earth, of ancient crooked will - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
The tatters of a dream-scarf that unraveled - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
The tattered hour when moths arrive - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"
The tatters of a faded shawl - Arthur Davison Ficke "Portrait of an Old Woman"
Its poor array of tattered flags - John Gould Fletcher "Evening Sky"
And ponder on life's tattered book - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
From the king on his throne, to the pauper in tatters - Percy Hendon "On Lord Grosvenor's Annual Income" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
And the tent of night in tatters - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad IV: Reveille"
Ragged cloak and tattered shoe - Joyce Kilmer "Imitation of Richepin's Ballade of the Beggars' King"
A ghost in born-again tatters - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
The ghost of you startling and tattered - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Many tattered visions intersecting - Audre Lorde "East Berlin"
Gray clouds tattered into rags - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"
The men of the tattered battalion - John Masefield "A Consecration"
And praised her tattered bravery - Theodore Maynard "For They Shall Possess the Earth"
Lays aside her tattered winter weeds - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
His tatters rich with Indian dyes - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Turtles bask in the last tatters of afternoon - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
Lovely, lovely tattered mist - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Trace back spring's tattered weather - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"
Shivering on the tattered stairways - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid
And rend yourself to foamy tatters - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A clown with tatters of a joy - Lynn Riggs "The Cross"
Every specter laid by tattered saffron - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
A tattered wind alone replied - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
That king whose tattered mantle beckons from the dark - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
To drown our tattered lives - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"
God in his tattered coat - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"
Tattered music trailing on the ground - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
A tatter of sail in the wind - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
In wild and vagabond tatters hurled - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Snow" transl. by Alma Strettell
Unstitched, breathless, in tatters - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Ritual shoes frayed and tattered - Wang An-Shih "The Ancient Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Light withdrawing its tattered shreds - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
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As the dead years lurch, in tattered clothes - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi
Not everything tattered is ruined - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
To whom sunlight is a tattered pilgrim - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"
Woven from cloth whole and tattered - Bruce Boston "All the Starry Audience"
Tear our sleep to tatters - Rita Boumi-Pappas "The Crow" transl. by Kimon Friar
Wear silence as a tattered shirt - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Like tattered effigies of home - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"
With tinsel lace tarnished and tattered - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Child's Favourite"
The last poor tatters the forests wear - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
Tatters of yesterday and shreds of morrow - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Mendicants"
Tattered outlaw of the earth, of ancient crooked will - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
The tatters of a dream-scarf that unraveled - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
The tattered hour when moths arrive - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"
The tatters of a faded shawl - Arthur Davison Ficke "Portrait of an Old Woman"
Its poor array of tattered flags - John Gould Fletcher "Evening Sky"
And ponder on life's tattered book - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
From the king on his throne, to the pauper in tatters - Percy Hendon "On Lord Grosvenor's Annual Income" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
And the tent of night in tatters - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad IV: Reveille"
Ragged cloak and tattered shoe - Joyce Kilmer "Imitation of Richepin's Ballade of the Beggars' King"
A ghost in born-again tatters - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
The ghost of you startling and tattered - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Many tattered visions intersecting - Audre Lorde "East Berlin"
Gray clouds tattered into rags - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"
The men of the tattered battalion - John Masefield "A Consecration"
And praised her tattered bravery - Theodore Maynard "For They Shall Possess the Earth"
Lays aside her tattered winter weeds - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
His tatters rich with Indian dyes - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Turtles bask in the last tatters of afternoon - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
Lovely, lovely tattered mist - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Trace back spring's tattered weather - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"
Shivering on the tattered stairways - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid
And rend yourself to foamy tatters - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A clown with tatters of a joy - Lynn Riggs "The Cross"
Every specter laid by tattered saffron - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
A tattered wind alone replied - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
That king whose tattered mantle beckons from the dark - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
To drown our tattered lives - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"
God in his tattered coat - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"
Tattered music trailing on the ground - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
A tatter of sail in the wind - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
In wild and vagabond tatters hurled - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Snow" transl. by Alma Strettell
Unstitched, breathless, in tatters - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Ritual shoes frayed and tattered - Wang An-Shih "The Ancient Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Light withdrawing its tattered shreds - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
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