Potential Titles: Grope

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That grope at ghostly doors - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "November"

Through the dungeon's gloom did fearless grope - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

And base it deep as devil's grope - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

Imprisoned thunder groping for the doors - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Groping through terror and night - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"

Grope in the shadows of the slain - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

Where groping hands clutch fear - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"

Groping dreams with grinding claws and fangs - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

Between dead suns must peer and grope - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Earth"

And grope for dangerous toys - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

The groping faith of every root - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Hands outstretched groping through shadows - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The White Buffalo Painting"

Through a fen of filthy darkness grope - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


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