Potential Titles: Inch
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somethingdarkerWith this distance of infinite inches between us - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
The last sentimental cricket inching home - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
No painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Despondency Rebuked"
Never won an inch of star - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
Unable to carry every inch of an idea - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"
I own not one inch of the land - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
Bear them inch by inch toward death - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"
No inch of all untouched - Denise Levertov "The Past (II)"
Eight thousand inches' worth of false dimension - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Strode sidewalks inches before my doorstep - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"
Were measured but in inches - John McCrae "The Unconquered Dead"
Your notched inches climbing - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"
Every inch of what could burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
To trace the way by inches - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"
Inch on inch of gentle heart - Ou-yang Hsiu "[At the post house lodge]" transl. by Burton Watson
Split an inch into thousandths - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"
Synthesized within an inch of its life - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
thorns in the inches of light sunsets have - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Risk lurks in every inch of soil - Patricia Smith "To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower"
Closer by an inch to the sun - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"
Both in the inch and in the mile - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Where skyscrapers are just inches away from the ground - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
An inch or two outside the track - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
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We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
The last sentimental cricket inching home - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
No painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Despondency Rebuked"
Never won an inch of star - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
Unable to carry every inch of an idea - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"
I own not one inch of the land - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
Bear them inch by inch toward death - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"
No inch of all untouched - Denise Levertov "The Past (II)"
Eight thousand inches' worth of false dimension - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Strode sidewalks inches before my doorstep - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"
Were measured but in inches - John McCrae "The Unconquered Dead"
Your notched inches climbing - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"
Every inch of what could burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
To trace the way by inches - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"
Inch on inch of gentle heart - Ou-yang Hsiu "[At the post house lodge]" transl. by Burton Watson
Split an inch into thousandths - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"
Synthesized within an inch of its life - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
thorns in the inches of light sunsets have - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Risk lurks in every inch of soil - Patricia Smith "To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower"
Closer by an inch to the sun - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"
Both in the inch and in the mile - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Where skyscrapers are just inches away from the ground - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
An inch or two outside the track - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
Navigation Links:
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