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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-12 09:50 pm

Potential Titles: Sphinx

The Sphinx that puzzled Europe - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Butterfly-winged sphinxes guarded their eggs - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Gloating above the sphinx - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

Go ask the sphinx, perhaps she knows - Ardelia Maria Barton "What Is the Future of the Race?"

An angel mingles with the sphinx - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited

An angry dream before the Sphinx's feet - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

The Sphinx stirred, shaking the drifted moonlight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Inviting other sphinxes out - Calef Brown "Tiny Baby Sphinx"

Leagued with the Sphinx - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"

Old parents of the Sphinx - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Never bid the Sphinx despair - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

Rue, myrrh, and cummin for the Sphinx - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Make curious queries to the Sphynx - Henry B. Hirst "The Valley of Shadow"

White and milk-warm sphinx - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"

Stone heads of sphinxes nod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

To which the Sphinx hath known the rhyme - Don Marquis "Selves"

Before the smile upon the Sphinx was cold - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Thy sphinx of riddle eyes - Claude McKay "Africa"

A sphinx has elicited Medusa to petrify a centaur - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"

Sphinxes asleep in shadow in the South - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Like meeting a couple of sphinxes - Charles Simic "Paradise"

A towering sphinx roams the garden - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"

The blank and universal Sphinx - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Sphinxes of silence, wraiths of mystery - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"


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