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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-04-04 06:48 pm

Potential Titles: Disappoint

To disappointment's sudden darkness wanes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

A cobweb hiding disappointment's thorn - John Clare "What Is Life?"

Pours disappointment's icy tears - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Recede the disappointed tide - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LVII: Called Back"

By Disappointment's lonely shore - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"

Owed the world my disappointment - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Not since Disappointment school'd me - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"

Nowhere is safe from disappointment - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Nor Time nor Disappointment can eclipse - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

When the monster disappointment comes - Frank J. Medina "Life's Reality"

The evening's disappointments by increments - Amy Newman "Untitled [20 November]"

Shake hands with disappointment - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

At whose feet should I lay disappointment? - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

And disappointment marks the name - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Village of endless disappointments - Charles Simic "Mrs. Digby's Picture Album"

After the first disappointment - Hope Anita Smith "Give Me an 'M'"

That I may not disappoint myself - Henry David Thoreau "My Prayer"

Bound in their unceasing disappointment - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Through the offices of disappointing money - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"

The illusions and disappointments of a clear sky - Zheng Min "Existence that no longer Exists #1: Van Gogh's Pleasure Boat is Gone" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


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