Suitable for all genres, but especially crime, science-fiction and erotica; and I can see at least three plausible studies of the Sixties folk movement.
The World to Darkness
The Distant Folds
The Moping Owl
To the Moon Complain
Heaves the Turf
A Mouldering Heap
The Rude Forefathers
Destiny Obscure
Storied Urns*
Animated Busts
The Silent Dust
Cold Ear of Death
Pregnant with Celestial Fire
The Rod of Empire
Waked to Ecstasy
Her Ample Page
The Genial Current of the Soul
His Country's Blood
Wade Through Slaughter
The Gates of Mercy
Struggling Pangs
The Noiseless Tenor
Bones from Insult
Shapeless Sculpture
Unlettered Muse
This Pleasing, Anxious Being
The Warm Precincts
The Cheerful Day
Some Pious Drops
Meet the Sun
Old Fantastic Roots
Hard by Yon Wood
Dirges Due
Large Was His Bounty
The Bosom of his Father
Spelling regularized but otherwise sic. I did consider Short and Simple Anals as a possibility but decided it would be cheating.
*Actually used by Michael Innes, in an Appleby short story, as the title of a novel by a Hardyesque writer of rustic tragedies.
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