Potential Titles: Dignity

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Might dignify Minerva's awful charms - James Beattie "To the Right Honourable Lady Charlotte Gordon, Dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet with Feathers, &c."

An altar dignifying the god of chance - Charles Simic "The Altar"


With little dignity or none - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"

Dignity is my scepter - Ana Castillo "These Times"

One dignity delays for all - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity I"

The certain dignity of death - Hazel Hall "Flash"

The slow dignity of your eternal pause - D.H. Lawrence "Baby Turtle"

The dignity of cataloguers - Maureen N. McLane "Mesh"

Dignity of bees for your hands - Pablo Neruda "Midday XXXIX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Gentleness finds its dignity - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "A Greeting"

Mellowed to a heightened dignity - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Dressed me in velvet dignities - Iris Tree "[Loneliness I love]"

By the dignity of destination - John Updike "Americana"

Now the stark dignity of entrance - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"


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