Potential Titles: Favor/Favour

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Mornings to ask for favors and forgiveness - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"

Took no favor from the hands of Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

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]

Your elegance does not secure you favors with the sun - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"

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"

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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