Potential Titles: Somber

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Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

Somber is the sound the heart makes - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

With sombre hauntings fled - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Vocal even in its somber tread - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Shone with metallic lustre, sombre fire - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Sombre with imprisoned fire - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Hushed and sombre with imprisoned fire - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Light one sombre pyramid - Helen Parry Eden "Trees"

Deep notes across the sombre woods - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The sombre casket of centuries of song - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"

Shadowed by Sorrow's somber wing - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

Golden days and days of somber hue - Naomi Long Madgett "Wedding Song"

Until that noon of sombre sky - Alice Meynell "Easter Night"

Caves lashed by the tails of somber lizards - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The voice of a somber heart - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin

Under the sombre shadow of the past - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Your playful and somber accompaniments - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"

With girdle of a sombre dye - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"

Somber in your deeps - Margaret E. Sangster "The River and the Tree"

Saw the sombre crow flap by - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"


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