Potential Titles: Idol

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Fixed idols made by flesh and mind - Max Bodenheim "Decadent Cry"

To worship idols or mimic fireflies - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"

My idol that has turned to clay - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Shattered Hopes"

Tear those idols from my heart - Thomas Carew "To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation of the Psalms"

Idols of a petty clique - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

A stone idol, patient, to be dissolved with a crash - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

More idols are growing in the night - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

When idols and hopes shall fail - George Blackstone Field "The Breed"

Amidst the idols of speaking tides - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

And breathe its vows again to idols - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Powerless idols of departed time - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Your idols' feet never turned to clay - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Great idols with phosphoric feet - Pablo Neruda "Far from Here" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Setting up an idol all of earth - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Appraising indolent idol's eye - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Everything that a worshiper accords to an idol - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"


A fiction of poppies and idolatry - Zaina Alsous "Description de l'Egypte"

Deep idolatry on the dark and stormy tides - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"

My fond prayers and wild idolatry - Fanny Kemble "To a Picture"


Fond idolator at every shrine where beauty lingers - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)


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