Potential Titles: Vex
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somethingdarkerVex the desert with vain angers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The vexed ore no mineral of power - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"
Burning thoughts that vexed the day - Frank Oliver Call "A River Sunset"
Nor vex the ghosts of other days - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Vexes that wilful and capricious eye - William Cory "Amavi"
To see how fools are vexed - Thomas Dekker "Sweet Content"
Nor ebbing Time vexes Eternity - Edward Dowden "Durer's 'Melencholia'"
A heaven that vexes me - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Broken vows will vex and grieve - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"
While blusters vex the yew and vane - Thomas Hardy "A Drizzling Easter Morning"
So many cares to vex the day - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Never a storm will vex her - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Clear the vexation of Time from my heart - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Vexed with prying silver beam his crimson dream - Elsa Kazi "India--Entertaing Twilight"
Why vex me with delicious hints - Henry Kendall "Aileen"
Could not vex the merry stars - Joyce Kilmer "To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself"
Pardon me for vexing you so - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Vexing the void abyss - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"
The day will vex you, and the night deny - Louise Chandler Moulton "Across Strange Waters" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Vexed with watching and with tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLVIII"
Vision vex me alive and dead - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Where the sundering shoals of day vex the dim sails - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Aeons cannot vex or tire - Sara Teasdale "Stars"
Vex them with ceaseless scourge and fret - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
Vexed with phantoms old - William Watson "The Blind Summit"
Vex not the night with sound - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"
My vexation renewing itself daily - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson
Unvexed by pettier cares of gain - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
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The vexed ore no mineral of power - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"
Burning thoughts that vexed the day - Frank Oliver Call "A River Sunset"
Nor vex the ghosts of other days - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Vexes that wilful and capricious eye - William Cory "Amavi"
To see how fools are vexed - Thomas Dekker "Sweet Content"
Nor ebbing Time vexes Eternity - Edward Dowden "Durer's 'Melencholia'"
A heaven that vexes me - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Broken vows will vex and grieve - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"
While blusters vex the yew and vane - Thomas Hardy "A Drizzling Easter Morning"
So many cares to vex the day - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Never a storm will vex her - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Clear the vexation of Time from my heart - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Vexed with prying silver beam his crimson dream - Elsa Kazi "India--Entertaing Twilight"
Why vex me with delicious hints - Henry Kendall "Aileen"
Could not vex the merry stars - Joyce Kilmer "To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself"
Pardon me for vexing you so - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Vexing the void abyss - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"
The day will vex you, and the night deny - Louise Chandler Moulton "Across Strange Waters" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Vexed with watching and with tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLVIII"
Vision vex me alive and dead - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Where the sundering shoals of day vex the dim sails - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Aeons cannot vex or tire - Sara Teasdale "Stars"
Vex them with ceaseless scourge and fret - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
Vexed with phantoms old - William Watson "The Blind Summit"
Vex not the night with sound - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"
My vexation renewing itself daily - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson
Unvexed by pettier cares of gain - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
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