Potential Titles: Barren
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somethingdarkerThe barren beige of dirt reduced to dust - Mary Jo Bang "It Says, I Did So"
Lying hymn-barren on the dirt - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"
While treading upon barren shores - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Beating barren twigs together - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
Barren purposeless change - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 3"
Give me back my barren hills - Anne Bronte "Home"
Leave but dead ashes and a barren crust - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Open Door"
Nothing remains upon this barren core - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
A breed of witch who strolls barren fields - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"
An outcast on some barren spot - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"
Unallied to bitter things or barren - Edward Dowden "In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos"
Barren smiles are trained for tragedy - Donald Evans "The Noon of Night"
Maintains one barren blank from age to age - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Over the bleak and barren snow - Colin Francis "Tony O"
Left him hiking along the barren shores of physics - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
From each barren weed that grows expects the grape - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Barren of bliss and robbed of golden cheer - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
Between the poppies' barren fires - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Notre Dame de la Belle-Verriere"
Laughter from the barren crowd - Anastasius Grün "The 'Old Player'" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Losing sight of barren rewards - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
Walked up and down my barren rows - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
To dash irradiant on the barren shore - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"
my Self in the unyielding barrenness - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
Barren architecture of creatures long past - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Fickle light on barren blossoms - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"
On barren solitudes of sand - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Barren as the Hopeless Flame - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"
Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
This flow of barren tears - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
Across the barren moor - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
Cultivates the rough and barren regions - George Martin "Superstition"
That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Mind's icy sneer of bitter barrenness - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Not only cosmic barrens and psychic emptiness through which we fare - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The barren fool in power - John Masefield "Forget"
Reducing land to barren sea - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
Born of barren rocks - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Beacon Face"
Reared on reefs that hide their rending shocks - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Beacon Face"
While I tasted the sights of the barren country - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
A barren line from whence to where - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"
Barren thorns to plunge - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
Through the wastes wild and barren - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Barren of every glorious theme - Anon. "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America"
To find some new sensation for a barren mind - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Barren-hearted and untrue - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"
Barren apples beard the rocks - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
Secret weeping over your barrenness - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz
Bare trees and barren ground - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
The sorrows of the barren year - George Santayana "Avila"
With barren husks and harvesting of dreams - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
All the world is barren, while I mourn - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Deserted on life's barren strand - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Reaping a barren grain - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"
So barren of new pride - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Seeing his fields lie barren in the sun - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Scared barren at your very notion - Patricia Smith "What Betsy Has to Say"
To barren rocks and fields that have no clay - James Stephens "The Gang"
Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"
Lay the gold tithings barren - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
No rills refresh the barren sand - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
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Lying hymn-barren on the dirt - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"
While treading upon barren shores - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Beating barren twigs together - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
Barren purposeless change - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 3"
Give me back my barren hills - Anne Bronte "Home"
Leave but dead ashes and a barren crust - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Open Door"
Nothing remains upon this barren core - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
A breed of witch who strolls barren fields - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"
An outcast on some barren spot - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"
Unallied to bitter things or barren - Edward Dowden "In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos"
Barren smiles are trained for tragedy - Donald Evans "The Noon of Night"
Maintains one barren blank from age to age - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Over the bleak and barren snow - Colin Francis "Tony O"
Left him hiking along the barren shores of physics - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
From each barren weed that grows expects the grape - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Barren of bliss and robbed of golden cheer - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
Between the poppies' barren fires - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Notre Dame de la Belle-Verriere"
Laughter from the barren crowd - Anastasius Grün "The 'Old Player'" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Losing sight of barren rewards - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
Walked up and down my barren rows - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
To dash irradiant on the barren shore - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"
my Self in the unyielding barrenness - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
Barren architecture of creatures long past - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Fickle light on barren blossoms - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"
On barren solitudes of sand - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Barren as the Hopeless Flame - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"
Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
This flow of barren tears - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
Across the barren moor - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
Cultivates the rough and barren regions - George Martin "Superstition"
That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Mind's icy sneer of bitter barrenness - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Not only cosmic barrens and psychic emptiness through which we fare - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The barren fool in power - John Masefield "Forget"
Reducing land to barren sea - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
Born of barren rocks - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Beacon Face"
Reared on reefs that hide their rending shocks - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Beacon Face"
While I tasted the sights of the barren country - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
A barren line from whence to where - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"
Barren thorns to plunge - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
Through the wastes wild and barren - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Barren of every glorious theme - Anon. "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America"
To find some new sensation for a barren mind - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Barren-hearted and untrue - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"
Barren apples beard the rocks - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
Secret weeping over your barrenness - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz
Bare trees and barren ground - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
The sorrows of the barren year - George Santayana "Avila"
With barren husks and harvesting of dreams - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
All the world is barren, while I mourn - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Deserted on life's barren strand - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Reaping a barren grain - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"
So barren of new pride - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Seeing his fields lie barren in the sun - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Scared barren at your very notion - Patricia Smith "What Betsy Has to Say"
To barren rocks and fields that have no clay - James Stephens "The Gang"
Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"
Lay the gold tithings barren - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
No rills refresh the barren sand - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
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