Potential Titles: Rather

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I would rather bear fruit than fire - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

Rather than offend my swine I would uproot the tree - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

I'd rather put my trust in stones - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"

Encouraging affection rather than awe - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

The pang of worlds we'd rather be - Gary Jackson "The Restoration"

Rather grind me down into the dust - Richard Le Gallienne "Mammon"

Rather become infinite than fall in love - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

Would rather drink the wind - Mary Oliver "The Arrowhead"

But rather truth for love's own sake - Theodore H. Rand "Conduct"

Chiefly because I'd rather love my equals - Adrienne Rich "Apology"

Give rather back the old hallucinations - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

Rather dwell with a lion and a dragon - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 25" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Rather find strength in what remains behind - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"


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