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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-03-09 04:00 am

Potential Titles: Custom

Disappear below the flood of custom - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXVIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Custom's rusty fetters spurn'd - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]

Pressed upon the daily custom of the sky - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

The pride of custom and the gossip of the street - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Yielded to custom's imperious demand - "The Emperor's Rout"

Unravelled of customs half a mundane sphere - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

For custom conquers fear and shame - John Gay "Fable XIII: The Tamed Fawn" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

On which the dust of custom rides - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"

The copper in her customs houses - Pablo Neruda "I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects" transl. by Teresa Anderson

My customary lack of shadows - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

In the customs house of the heights - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt

The mortal chain of Custom - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

On custom's rust and Beauty's dust - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"

Felt and full, beyond all custom's deadly rule - J.S. [John Sterling] "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

In my own custom of gathering breath - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"

Moving on from their custom mausoleums - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"


Citizen of every climate but customer to nothing - Naomi Shihab Nye "Catalogue Army"


A billion tiny customized versions - Elaine Equi "In an Unrelated" [Poetry May 2019]

Unmade bed of your customized hell - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 666"


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