Potential Titles: Respect

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Never pass'd me by in disrespectful haste - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]


Wraps all alike in irrespective darkness - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]


I respect the patience of heartbreak - Hanif Abdurraqib "There Are More Ways to Show Devotion"

Still respects my solitude - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"

In the hierarchy of my respect - Julia Alvarez "You"

Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

Because respect is a portal - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Interred with due respect beside the public road - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Respect even its bitter portion - Tess Gallagher "Black Pudding"

Shall not Strabo then respect command - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

Upside down with respect to the eclipse - John James "April, Andromeda"

Respectfully opening oak by oak - Ted Kooser "A Fox"

Respect or the lies like it - Aimee Le "Where I Learn to Shrink"

Respecting beauty's prerogatives - Anthony Madrid "Siebenundvierzig"


Sign'd by a dozen respectable men - Henry S. Leigh "The House on the Top of a Hill"

In time may become a respectable frog - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]


No design of self-respect or self-knowledge - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"


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