Potential Titles: Irony

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Sulphuric, quicksilvery ironic mist - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

And the stars can chaff the ironic moon - D.H. Lawrence "Week-night Service"

Ironical winds of the soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Found slaughters here ironically lukewarm - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Formed by private ironies - Robert Hass "Art and Life"

Irony brooding over sin - Lionel Johnson "The Roman Stage"

Irony of human vow - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Impression"

Tinkering with irony - Ted Kooser "Grasshoppers"

Laughed in irony of sheer despair - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

To join the ironies with Old John Brown - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

We, who pull breath, confuse death's irony - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Every crooked flash of irony - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Meriting pride's implacable irony - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

Irony being the flip side of sentimentality - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"

Nor bitter irony a truth foreshows - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"


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