Potential Titles: Scorn

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Glaring scenes with characters of scorn - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Who once had wakened their scorn - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"

Recalling the scorn and the cruel jeers - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The stinging brood of scorn - "As-cription"

The swift wild cry of the scornful ember - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"

Still had strength for laughter and scorn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Not in scorn do I laugh - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"

In equal scorn dogmas and dreams - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

A dream of scornful pride - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"

All threats and danger scorning - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"

First point of scorn - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 24"

Fall hot on all the hissing scorns - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Her fragrance shall be scornful - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Who are spirits of scorn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Dared depart in utter scorn - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

The scornful earth-flung pence - W. Wilfred Campbell "Pan the Fallen"

The dawning light of sorrow and scorn - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Disgust of pleasure, scorn of duty - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"

Which the mornings scorn - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

Lights of sacrilege and scorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise - John Clare "I Am!"

My heart swells high with scorn and hate - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]

Scorned the fraternity of war - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

Six impeccable threads of scorn - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"

Arise in a sacred scorn - Helen Gray Cone "A Chant of Love for England"

To scorn the narrow round - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"

Burn green shoots with withered scorn - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"

There is a smile of bitter scorn - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Our high destiny should hold in scorn - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Whose scornings are flint on dry rock - Camille T. Dungy "Where bushes periodically burn, children fear other children: girls"

In this world of scorns - Helen Parry Eden "A Ballad of Lords and Ladies"

In scorn for miserable aims that end with self - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Old indignities and obscure scorn - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

All scorning the jaded hours - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs V"

Scorner of Midas and St. Francis - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

Venomed with the gall of scorn - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Scorns a pasture withering to the root - Robert Frost "The Cow in Apple Time"

In the pitch of your scorn - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"

The scorn of tumbleweed and light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Senorita Juarez"

Scorner of the pleading faces - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"

With a conqueror's scornful eye - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

A proud sweet-pea that scorns to be a vine - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"

The scorn of Mouse and Bird and Boy - Oliver Herford "Education"

That bursts its chrysalis in scorn - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Husking Time"

Scorn will efface each footprint - Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

Good right to laugh in scorn - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"

Some outward form of inner scorn - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

A trophy pinned with dead flowers and scorn - Vandana Khanna "Novice"

Their Words to Scorn are scatter'd - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Who received oppression and scorn for his wages - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"

Burning with the fury of subduction scorned - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Cries of echoing strife and scorn - Emily Lawless "Afterword"

Met all loss with scorn - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"

Scornful of the tempest - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

The grains these sowed in scorn - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Made us lords but scorned the sparrows - Mary Soon Lee "The Languages of Birds"

The storm of scorn I ride - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

Scorns and triumphs woven in our cloaks - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

Scorn loses sight of its prey - Tariq Luthun "Harb"

Scornful stars in the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Night on the Plains"

Wrapped me in the scorn of your silence - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

The scorn of the relentless stars - Theodore Maynard "Adam"

To salt your souls with scorn - Theodore Maynard "Ave"

Against our day of bitter scorn - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"

And then beware her scorn - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

Scorning pity's tears - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"

Scorn oppression's minions - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"

The night world scorning - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"

Scorning the wood and field - Meredith Nicholson "Watching the World Go By"

Scorning the swords - Yone Noguchi "Upon the Heights"

Then what avail the scornful words - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Their words of scorn and malice proved - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Laughed to scorn the ancient threat of deserts - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

To censure all with scornful eyes - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

Sorrow, veiled in scornful pride - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Never Again"

Deadly as the frost of scorn - Theodore H. Rand "Song-Waves"

In gladsome scorn's disdain - Theodore H. Rand "Victor Is He!"

Lordly mountains soar in scorn - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"

That Wisdom does not scorn - Anna Seward "Sonnet 92 [Behold that Tree, in Autumn's dim decay]"

Merit in the eye of scorn - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"

Look'd scornful down on Alexander's might - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

Beneath the bright scorn of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Stole his anger and his scorn - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

To scorn the perilous blue - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"

How wild with sudden scorn - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

In the scorn of all denial - Edmund Clarence Stedman "How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry"

As long as scorn is on the liar - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

Scornfully dashes its surging billows down - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]

In their last scorn of sorrow - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Let your fugue pursue its scornful flight - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

The scornful and untroubled skies - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

Where scorn and falsehood hide - Henry van Dyke "A Fairy Tale: For the Mark Twain Dinner, December 5, 1905"

Sickness, scorn, and bitterness to taste - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Too pure and proud for scorn - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"

This brief and scornful heart - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

The songs my voice has scorned - Helen Hay Whitney "Chaque baiser vaut un roman"

Who scorns the frown of Jove - Helen Hay Whitney "Does the Pearl Know?"

Scorn for the market-place - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"

And scorn greyness - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"

I had no stone of scorn to fling - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"


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