Potential Titles: Cleanse

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Through the cleansed instrument of himself - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"

The cleansing that closes winter - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"

Cleanse my soul and make it fair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Cleanse the muddy mirrors of my thought - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Cleanses me with an extinct crow's feathers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

A blade of fire to cleanse and smooth - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A clear and cleansing night of stars - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

A joy as cleansing as the wind - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"

No turpentine to cleanse or burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Down to the cleansing sea - James Oppenheim "Self"

Swept bare by cleansing fires - John Oxenham "Gadara, A.D. 31"

The cleanse and shake a wounded hemisphere - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

The cleansing breath of many molten truths - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"

Embrace the cleansing wind - Nancy Wood "Feather"

Cleanse with the burning log of oak - "Yule-Tide Fires"


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