Potential Titles: Merry

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Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"

Prattling current's merry call - William Cullen Bryant "The Rivulet"

A merry thrush sings hymns of rapture - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"

Too merry for a moment's rest - Benjamin Copeland "The Meadow Air Is Sweet"

The jostling and shouting of merry flowers - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

Let us be merry before we go - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"

Beyond that merry sound of moths - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"

In the merry noon that danced before my tedious night - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

The scream of the merry blue jay - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

The chattering blackbirds' merry riot - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

And played a thousand merry pranks - Rev. J. Wesley Hanson "The Fairy's Gift" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

With the snowflakes merry fall - Jennie Earngey Hill "When Snowflakes Fall"

And the merry horn wakes up the morn - "The Hunt Is Up"

Could not vex the merry stars - Joyce Kilmer "To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself"

More merry was than wise - "The Life and Death of Tom Careless"

With his merry men well weaponed in steel - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Steals over our merriest jests - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"

The merry ring of whetted scythes - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

All the merry kettle-drums - John Masefield "Cavalier"

A sparkling merry freight of doubloons - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"

The stars in merry parties - Richard Middleton "The Carol of the Poor Children"

Who now make merry at the gloom - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Blithe as a merry morn - E.M. Smith-Dampier "Ballad of London Town"


To hear the merry-sounding reed - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"


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