Potential Titles: Favor/Favour
Jun. 2nd, 2010 07:03 pmMornings to ask for favors and forgiveness - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"
In favor of believing whatever one wants reality to be - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Took no favor from the hands of Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Sleep bestowing her favours illicitly - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
To court the ringmaster's favour - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
In spite of a society that favored a monochromatic landscape - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Just me losing your favor and forgetting - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
The sea has done you no favors - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Tempts Medusa"
With which she paints the road to favour - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
In fear or favour of my spirit's need - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets III"
Your elegance does not secure you favors with the sun - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"
And dress up nature in your favor - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
I hold with those who favor fire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
Choice honey for a favoured youth - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Asking me for favors all along - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
Seek no favor untouched by blood - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
The jousting favor of one who is in thrall to no one - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Token of profoundest favor - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Who are in favour with their stars - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXV"
Favored by doomsday prophets - Charles Simic "Fourteenth Street Poem"
Draws her favors to the lowest ebb - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"
The Great Potter works no private favors - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Favorable hours hymned by Pan - Lionel Johnson "Summer Storm"
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In favor of believing whatever one wants reality to be - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Took no favor from the hands of Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Sleep bestowing her favours illicitly - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
To court the ringmaster's favour - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
In spite of a society that favored a monochromatic landscape - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Just me losing your favor and forgetting - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
The sea has done you no favors - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Tempts Medusa"
With which she paints the road to favour - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
In fear or favour of my spirit's need - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets III"
Your elegance does not secure you favors with the sun - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"
And dress up nature in your favor - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
I hold with those who favor fire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
Choice honey for a favoured youth - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Asking me for favors all along - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
Seek no favor untouched by blood - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
The jousting favor of one who is in thrall to no one - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Token of profoundest favor - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Who are in favour with their stars - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXV"
Favored by doomsday prophets - Charles Simic "Fourteenth Street Poem"
Draws her favors to the lowest ebb - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"
The Great Potter works no private favors - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Favorable hours hymned by Pan - Lionel Johnson "Summer Storm"
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