Potential Titles: Wretch

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Wretched Palomides whom dreams torment - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

Why should the wretched wish to live? - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Such a destined wretch as I - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"

Stung with swarms of wretchedness - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"

Far out of the wretched past - William D. Howells "While She Sang"

Wretched importers of the sublime - Fady Joudah "Every Hour Has an Animal"

Such wretches are we - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Wretched stumps all charred and burned - George Santayana "Cape Cod"

And everything but wretchedness forgotten - Siegfried Sassoon "In the Pink"

The coward conquest of a wretch's knife - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIV"

That kinsman to the wretched - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 186: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The wretch in captivity borne - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"

Wretched is our last meeting - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer


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