Potential Titles: Corrupt

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Became a stir among corruption - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

Into another pause before corruption - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"

At the end of a corrupting calm - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"

Foul corruption's ice blight - Walter Richard Cassels "Gone"

Which moth and rust corrupt - Arthur Hugh Clough "Easter Day. Naples, 1849"

Yet in corruption mindful yet - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."

Smelled of earth and salt but no corruption - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Await the corruption's disarmingly hot embrace - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

Till I breathe corruption - David Gray "Sonnet"

Devour the corrupt bones of this world - Langston Hughes "Sunday Morning Prophecy"

The house of corrupt odors - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

A cold, corrupting, fate - Lionel Johnson "The Destroyer of a Soul"

Corrupted by the amorality of so much space - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Wasteful action is corruption of the purest talents - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

Corrupted by their own illusions - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Made up of slander, corruption, and spleen - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

So could Corruption's phalanx rest composed - Philo "The Tribute"

A dream corrupts if kept too long - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

What spirit of corruption endures to threaten - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Know the truth of your corruption - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Corrupt by over-partial looks - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVII"

Would corrupt my saint to be a devil - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIV"

Corrupt a landscape through the planting of foreign flowers - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

To fight corrupt systems instead of the neighbors - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Maybe our dreams are corrupted - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

Each crime which can corrupt and spoil the heart - "The Whore"


incorruptible Nothing under the ample sun - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

A lamp above the incorruptible table - Maria Luisa Spaziani transl. by Lynne Lawner


Stars descend to encounter the uncorrupted glaciers - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Land of the uncorrupted heart - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]


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