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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-02 12:40 am

Potential Titles: Sanctuary

A sanctuary of infinite patience - Etel Adnan "Night"

Sanctuary before the sky - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

A hidden sanctuary of fire and light - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

He refused the most sure sanctuary - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

A paltry sanctuary from fate - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett

I am the singer of the broken sanctuaries - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

hushed in brief sanctuary by the dark - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Sacred sanctuary and sturdy shrine - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 29. E-Mah, the Temple of Ninhursanga and Asghi in Adab" transl. by Sophus Helle

Doubtful sanctuaries between wars - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Your miller does not rest in her sanctuary - "First Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this claims, internally, to be Enheduana speaking but references things not built until well after her probable dates)

Sanctuary of love close guarded - Ivor Gurney "The Farm"

The portals of your sanctuary unseen - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"

Gave so large a sanctuary - Alfred Noyes "Darwin II: The Voyage"

Sanctuary for renegades and shamans - Gregory Pardlo "Antebellum"

Wearing the white dress of sanctuary - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Offered myself as sanctuary - Aaron Smith "Boston"


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