Potential Titles: Profane

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By careless lips profaned to be - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXV: The Young Shepherds" transl. by Sir John Bowring

In religious as profane things - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

To hide the profane from the sacred - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Broken tears in the profane lace of dawn - Wendy Guerra "Delicates" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Did my eyes profane the hour - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Where Greeks profaned the Law - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

At the profane communion table - Mina Loy "Love Songs (section III)"

Profaned and swollen by bitter waters - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

Have profan'd their scarlet ornaments - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLII"

Which hands profane will scarce invade - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"


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