Potential Titles: Penance

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Tunnels eat men like penance - Samiya Bashir "John Henry crosses the threshold--"

Some poor Ariel penanced in the rock - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

Thoughts of penance need not haunt us - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Make penance of the air - Linda Gregerson "Double Portrait with American Flags"

And dry the tear of penance from your eyes - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Penance for an unknown crime - Elinor Jenkins "Poppyfields"

Too proud for penance - A.M. Juster "An Apostle Falls"

And stayed his awful penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The thorny paths of penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

By austere penance and continuous toil - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

Galaxies of women, there doing penance for impetuousness - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"


Penitent.


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