Potential Titles: Sheer

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Sheer vividness of solitude - Harold Acton "Discoveries"

Snap, like glass, for sheer despair - Harold Acton "In the Month of Athyr"

Facing a sheer sky - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

Sea glass worked smooth and lovely by the sheer fact of time - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"

With one plunge leaped down the sheer abyss - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The veils of sheer deceit - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"

Sheer ocean of sky - Ed Falco "Morning Voices"

The sheer steep falls of space - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

Clear darkness, sheer light - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"

Invent one out of sheer air - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Laughed in irony of sheer despair - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

To baffle Fate in sheer serenity - Arthur Milliken "To--"

The rich soaked mulch of sheer regret - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Built over the sheer depth - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Float once more on sheer survival - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

With sheer blithe being - John Updike "To a Skylark"


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