Potential Titles: Plea/Plead

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The jury picked to hear your plea - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

Pleading now for pardon - Walter Conrad Arensberg "To a Garden in April"

Who plead for their heart's desire - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

Those pleas against my scruples - William Cory "Amavi"

Passionate pleading and prayers to the dead - George William Russell aka A.E. "Remembrance"

Scorner of the pleading faces - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"

Call on the bluebird to deliver your passionate pleas - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson

As lilies to a pleading wind - Lionel Johnson "The Petition"

And pleads across the waste to thee - Sidney Lanier "Special Pleading" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Though the sun calls and gentle zephyrs plead - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

Their pleas were like a river - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

And pleads in gentle whisper to the deity's bier - Harry Martinson "Aniara 37" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

these jangling night lights fixed to a spirit pleading - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"

a spirit pleading for the next break of dawn - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"

To the wounded viols pleading - George Sterling "Music at Dusk"


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