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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-12-02 04:46 am

Potential Titles: Ladder

A whole crossword puzzle of ladder and corridor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

On the rounds of a golden ladder - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Pulling the mind's ladder up behind me - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

Sliding along a smoking opal ladder - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

Scaled the silver ladder of thy dream - Maurice Baring "Shelley"

The rotten ladders of old hierarchies - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"

A ladder of branches and leaves into heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Burned a Jacob's Ladder into my eyes - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Never climb a rubber ladder - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"

Ladders leading up to light - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

No ladder of pity - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"

Their torches tossed a ladder of fire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Like the rose on its ladder of thorn - Leonard Cohen "The Window"

Altitude on Fortune's ladder - "Contentment"

Climb the ladders of delight - Olive Custance "A Morning Song"

The golden ladders of tomorrow's sickly sun - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

Weave a ladder to your heart - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"

Who mount denial's shaky ladder - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"

The immortal's ladder is hard to climb - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson

Grew plant ladders to the the stars - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

A rope ladder to the resting zone - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"

The heat a ladder into sleep - Chloe Honum "At a Days Inn in Barstow, California"

A ladder into sleep - Chloe Honum "At a Days Inn in Barstow, California"

With ladder struck by lightning - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"

Break apart a rotting ladder - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

An arpeggio climbing the ladder of sky - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

Ladders into the bright haven above our heads - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

On a ladder of dark clouds - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

His feet on a ladder of light - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Sandalphon"

A ladder of fire for climbing - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

A pristine ladder with treads of air - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Age" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

A ladder of life to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Climb their rich ladder of choruses - Naomi Shihab Nye "Open House"

The poem was my ladder - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Not a ladder to perfection - Robert Pinsky "Antiques"

And no ladder in sight - Valencia Robin "After Graduate School"

Till only ladders bring deliverance - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"

That snakes and ladders to its shaky start - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

The traffic of Jacob's ladder - Francis Thompson "The Kingdom of God"

The balustrade's tipped ladder tracking infinity - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Tipped ladder tracking infinity - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Like the Dream-ladder Jacob slept by - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]


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