Potential Titles: Woe

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His heart unhurt by brooding woes - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

By solitude and woe surrounded - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry I: The Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Have given a child to this world of woe - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXIX: Reminiscences" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

Woe to the wolf that eats not flesh - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Woe to legs with a foolish head - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Woe to the gun in a fearsome hand - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Woe to gilt on an unclean bed - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Woe to the wolf whom the ravens feed - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Woe to the cock who strutteth on ice - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Woe to the nightingale singing in the mill - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

The demon's crown of woe - Benjamin West Ball "Lucifer Redux"

And hunt him to the gulfs of woe - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

To the gulfs of woe profound - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

To wilds of woe decoy - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Solemn majesty of menace and woe - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

Seek relief from the Eumenides of woe - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

To ford the floods of woe - Charlotte Bronte "The Wife's Will"

All the woe creation knows - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"

These woes of mine fulfil - Robert Burns "Winter: A Dirge"

The woes of time - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)

To taste our bitterest woe - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Hand your woes to the sky above - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson

The sharing of this woeful late regret - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

Hidden horror of a nameless woe - Benjamin Copeland "Betrayed"

By cultivating his own woe - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Of fear for larger woe - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

The darling of Want and Woe - Arthur S. Cripps "Undines of Diverse Days"

This profit I have of my woe - Vidame de Chartres "April" transl. by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Half round the world of woe - Aubrey de Vere "Epitaph"

Learn the exile's woe - James B. Dollard "Song of the Little Villages"

And never taste death's woe - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"

Heavy with the woe of all the world - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Mindful of Earth's ancient woe - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

In the long catalogue of woe - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Enjoying my bowl of woe - Heid E. Erdich "Thoughts of Kids Interrupt My Work"

The chastity of silent woe - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Taste the bitter draught of woe - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

From three days' woe she came - Michael Field "Another Leadeth Thee"

Summer wind into your woe - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"

Fifteen hundred ancient woes - Louis Golding "Numbers"

And therefore void of woe - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"

Presses his cup to lips of human wo [sic] - Edmund Brewster Green "The Season of Death" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Shook with tempests of his woe - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"

Equal by their common woe - Hafiz "The Divan II" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Through the bitter wells of woe - Frances Ridley Havergal "Springs of Peace"

Vengeance for a thousand woes - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Awakening from thy dream of woe - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Stern resolve by woes matured - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Is born the elemental woe - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: A Tribute"

A woeful want of pristine fire - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"

Woe weeps out her division - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

Bitter tribute wrong from hearts of woe - Sir Nizamat Jung "VIII: The Heart of Love"

And utter but a whisper of the woes - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"

All the woe this life awards - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

With raiment of weeping and woe - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

We are wed with woe - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

To sow in guilt what they must reap in woe - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Is left to sing his song of woe - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

This net of useless woe - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

More marvel than woe - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Woe to the straggler who falls - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Mock each sound of human woe - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

The shadow of a kindred woe - Amy Levy "The Two Terrors"

Still her woes at midnight rise - John Lyly "The Spring"

My grief, my wounding and my woe - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

A passel of woe in his hat - Douglas Malloch "Settin' in the Sun"

Gold of woeful fields and towns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

That glory would check the tears of woe - Mary E. Nealy "Dying in the Hospital" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Woe unto that gentle heart - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

To crumble and form sepulchres for woes - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

That now will work me woe - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

From childish eyes hide elder woe - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]

Weathering the drip and drive of woe - Dorothy Parker "A Portrait"

Bid them drain the cup of woes - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Or melt at others' woe - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

With slight anguish mitigate much wo [sic] - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

In spite of the winter's woe - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"

In every clod or clot of human woe - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Woe betide the weary hour - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"

Blackened with passion and woe - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"

Hew a road of woe - Virna Sheard "The Shells"

One echo from a world of woes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

Whose waters of deep woe - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"

Sown with human woes - Taras Shevchenko "Caucasus" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

When wo commands the tear to speak - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Loose all burden of old woes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Upon the wind's oblivious woe - Clark Ashton Smith "To Nora May French"

Added to such other woes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

Eternally intones its woe - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"

Scarcely reached her gates of woe - Charles Strong "Thrasymene"

A labyrinth walled and roofed with woe - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Kicked through seas of woe - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

Be the leader of a nation of woe - Edwin Torres "Viva la Viva"

The apron of woes and misery - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Snow" transl. by Alma Strettell

So innocent of woe - John Hall Wheelock "Long Ago"

Not for the murmur of his woe - John Hall Wheelock "Plaint"

Trailing the robes of the immortal woe - John Hall Wheelock "Tchaikovsky: Fifth Symphony"

A thousand woes surround me - Richard Wilke "A Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Have borne the deep complaints of woe - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Tricked for a part of woe - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

And other woes have chased the gloom - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)


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