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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-03 01:37 am

Potential Titles: Beach

A breathless shipwreck crawling up a beach - Julia Alvarez "Meditation"

Laid out like a beach ball gone airless - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"

Squandered blood on beaches - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Waded through rough surf to a sunny beach in Sicily - Nicholas Christopher "1943"

Waves that murmur on the sunward beach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Who far at distance on the beach should wait - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Paddling past pebbly beaches - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

And walked upon the beach of hell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

On the sullen beach of the sky - John Gould Fletcher "The Clouds"

While Charon's keel grates on the beach - Horace "To the Companions [Ode 17, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

That beach in us that is untranslatable - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Sunless waters beside a sunless beach - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

It followed us along polluted beaches - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

How Demosthenes walk'd on the beach - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"

Blank as a washed beach - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Dusting of Snow"

Beaches foam-laced with rainbowing suntan oil - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

Where the ocean drifts its rhythms to the beach - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Lost on earth's lone beach - Theodore H. Rand "Dian and Fundy"

Beating the black dome over a beach - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

Footprints on some night-drowned beach - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Grass stains and beach glass - Richard Scott "Peridot"

The beach freezes footprints in place - Alison Swan "Wish"

Leave the beaches of my heart - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

Scavenged from the winter beach - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


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