Potential Titles: Rend

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Whirlwinds rend the howling air - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

The tempest's wrathful fingers rend - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

Only immortal fires to rend - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Through splitting earth and rending sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Sought to rend the stars from Heaven - Vera M. Brittain "To a Fallen Idol"

The rending of the earth-bound heart - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

Who of old would rend the oak - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

Forked lightning rending the sleet - H.D. "Simaetha"

A pang that rends the heart - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Through yonder rended veil of green - Lucy Larcom "November"

Let the Furies rend her guilty soul - Amy Levy "Medea"

Thought, breaking, rends them in twain - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Morays have teeth made for rending - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

Rending incision into countless surfaces - N. Scott Momaday "The Bear"

Ruthless hands to rend the fairy fane - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

Rend your skeins of thunder - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

And rend yourself to foamy tatters - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Has begun to rend the chain of reason - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry

And rend the calm with strides of Time - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"

That hands may not rend - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"

Whilst shouts of Huntsmen rend the Sky - "Stag Hunt" [W. Belch's British Sports, for the Amusement of Children]

A fearful diapason rends the arches of the skies - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Under the appalling rending of glacier ice - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


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