Potential Titles: Guile

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By guileful Hope misled - James Beattie "Retirement"

Schooled in guile - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"

Through a land ambushed with guile - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"

That guile be easier than innocence - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Whose heart had no guile - Li Po "River Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

Prince of Play, King of Guile - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

Have repaid my love with guile - "The Misanthrope"

Nor hide a jot by guile - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

By the slow guile of their vindictiveness - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"

A heart from whence no guile shall rise - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"


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