Potential Titles: Envious

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Leaving the valiant envious - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

A Demand for Wonder's envious Eye - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Revenge"

envious of the birthright of birds - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"

The sharp points of envious wit - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"

That envious shadowy old king - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"

If envious hate roots out the seed - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"

The envious gods take back what they can - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"

That envious crags have reft themselves in twain - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

The pride of envious yaks - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Lest envious Aurora surprise us too - Henry S. Leigh "Lays of Many Lands No. 4: Venice"

Fate so enviously debarrs [sic] - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Snapped by envious fingers - Joyce Carol Oates "Lines for Those to Whom Tragedy Is Denied"

All these objects of our envious thought - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

Envious of the light it cannot hold - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

The aim of envious men - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)


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