Potential Titles: Vex

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Vex the desert with vain angers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The vexed ore no mineral of power - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"

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)"

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]

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


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