Potential Titles: Profit

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Grew against the smallest profit - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

High prices profit those who sell - Lewis Carroll "Tema con Variazioni"

This profit I have of my woe - Vidame de Chartres "April" transl. by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The exceeding profit of their pain - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

The profit of their chilled delirium - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Hearses carrying the corpse of profit - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

What profit from the violet's day of pain? - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"

The traders in men and profit - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

Could make profit on a single pin - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

What shall my heart broken profit thee? - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]


Be found at last not profitless - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"


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