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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-04-03 01:12 pm

Potential Titles: Destruction/Destructive

Inside your destructible heart - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"


Destruction is the fruit - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"

From destruction's fiery shower - A.L.O.E. "Save One!"

That distort perception into refraction and destruction - Etel Adnan "Night"

Yet I refuse to choose destruction - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

Slowly and steadily defying the sinking destruction - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Where ruin echoes to destruction's calls - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Though destruction be the priest - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Fruition is also destruction - Frank Bidart "California Plush"

The rhythm of total destruction - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

Complete destruction of the heart's desire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

Like stars rushing toward destruction - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Breathed only anger and destruction - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Footprints of destruction over all - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"

Long governed by destruction - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

To know that for destruction ice is also great - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"

To gild Destruction with a smile - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"

Ambitious experiments in destruction - Lawrence Joseph "In Parentheses"

Let forth Destruction's formless fiend - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

But behind you is destruction - Amy Lowell "Astigmatism"

In this destruction contract - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"

Placed close within destruction's scope - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

As eagles of destruction ride - George Sterling "The House of War"

An army fierce upon its own destruction - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

Destruction's just another method of caring - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

Wept for the beginning of the destruction - "XXV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Earth's and hell's destructive tooth - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Sane and destructive to fear - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Poor Man's Club"

Withhold her most destructive flame - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

No destructive pressure but time - William Carlos Williams "The Problem"


Vowed to make the next model indestructible - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

In a reckless, indestructible surge - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"

as indestructible as your will - Evie Shockley "du bois in ghana"


A self-destructiveness no memory can repeal - Charles Wright "Homage to Samuel Beckett"


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