Potential Titles: Wan

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Whom the wan clouds fondly follow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCV: A Serbian Beauty" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

The wan summons of a grieving fate - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Decay's wan trace on all we cherish - J.D. [Julia Day] "A Meditation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

And my wan, suffering psyches know new power - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

The wan, wondering look of the pale sky - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"

Through the wan twilight of that bitter day - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

Greeting the wan autumn days - C.I. Pringle "The Last Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.121-v.III, 24 April 1886]

A butterfly wan with summer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Twilight Fancy"

Solitude floats down the river wan - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Made wan with endless years - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Night in a Down-Town Street"

And drank wan moonlight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Of that wan orchid of despair - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"

Wan with wrath of wind and rain - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

Thy cheek is wan with wild regret - Trevor "Too Late" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]


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