Potential Titles: Content

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Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

Content to share with the sparrow - Willis Boyd Allen "Carlo's Christmas"

An anecdote whose contents have scattered - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Bequeath to London my contented ghost - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

Found an alien and unknown content - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

Content with meaner prey - John Clare "The Woodman"

To the waverer be an emblem of St Paul's content - Delta "A Wild-Flower Garland: The Daisy" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Content with a vegetable love - W.S. Gilbert "Bunthorne's Song"

Weren't always havens of contented ease - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Immortality"

An educator of corrosive content - Stephanie Heit "Testament"

Each soul becomes a fount of sweet content - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"

And rest content in wine and nectar - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

Content with the idea of memory - Donika Kelly "Tender"

Then rest content with sorrow - Fanny Kemble "On a Musical Box"

Content to live divided - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Content in its windowless world - Danusha Lameris "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

Content to dream with you - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

And found their contents undecipherable - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "The File of a Thousand Places"

The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"

In the light of a contented sky - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"

I can't be content here in my uncomfortable present - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"

Those content with stale orthodoxies - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Have won at last this little portion of content - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

To empty the contents of your (un)troubled heart - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

My casket's heap'd contents reversed - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

To make shadow play of their contents on the walls - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Now content with memories - George Sterling "Lost Companion"

Content to sail ravaged canals back - Wang An-Shih "Thinking of Golden-Tomb City Long Ago" transl. by David Hinton

Contented with my flowers for stars - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

Content to let the north-wind roar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The image of my last content - Francis Brett Young "Lochanilaun"

Stand contented with the silence - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"


In the thin places of contentment - Anthony Butts "Lessons in Nostalgia"

Magic circles are a useful spell against contentment - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

That delicately sunder corruptions of contentment - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXIII: The Justification"


Discontent.


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