Potential Titles: Scene/Scenery

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Scenes reflected in soap bubbles - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Glaring scenes with characters of scorn - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

The scene of a livelong night's carouse - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

This rough scene fixed in memory - Scott Cairns "First Storm and Thereafter"

The narrow scene of this our appointed tedium - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"

And Treason walk secure the scene - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

And passion's storms a wilder scene - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Viewed the scene with anxious eye - Palmer Cox "The Brownies at Base-ball" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]

We fly to silent scenes in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"

Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"

Burns with impatience the scene to display - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe "The Fancy Fair; of, Grand Gala of the Zoological Gardens"

At the crime scene of spring - Elaine Equi "National Poetry Month"

Traversed each inhospitable scene of brutal outrage - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Vast mosaic walls full of the scenes of Olympus - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"

Ordering the setups and scenes - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Mournful music o'er the vanished scene - J.W. Forney "Winter" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]

Heightens the gloss of each bitter scene - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Without a chance to blaze upon the unities of a paper scene - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

Scenes within her ring of power - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

And the scene is caught - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (1)"

Wild scenes of lone magnificence - Felicia Hemans "Lines: Written in a Hermitage on the Sea-Shore"

Illuming all the midnight scene - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

The ultra scene and that zero tunnel - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"

Just revisiting the scenes of our sin - Anne Knish "Opus 88"

Linking bygone day to distant scene - Henry S. Leigh "Things that Might Have Been"

Jurors surveying a crime scene - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

Scenes from a strip mall childhood - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

Scenes of quiet disaster - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"

The scenes our dreams have painted - Dorothy Parker "The Passionate Freudian to His Love"

Tempted by folly every scene pursue - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"

Engraved with scenes from our family mythology - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]

Scenes now painted on the map of Time - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"

To dress the scene of revels loud - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

Weary watchers, guard the solemn scene - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Where horrors mark the scene - "The Rose of Warning" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVIII, v.LIX, June 1846]

Still glows that scene's enchanting grace - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]

Fate's storms again have swept the scene - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

Fly out over the carrion scene and remember - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

My coming strikes a terror on the scene - Alfred B. Street "White Creek" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

Construct a scene around an illusion - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

The ritual scene of infinity uncertainty - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Dear scenes which bound me like chains - William Walker, Jr. "The Wyandot's Farewell"

Every sense and scene of joy - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Among the vulgar scenes of strife - "The Whore"

Leaving the scene in thrall to silence - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

Enchanting scenes of young delight - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"


Fair scenery for song birds - Nathalia Crane "The Three-Cornered Lot"

Shift the gorgeous scenery of the sky - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"


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