Potential Titles: Rue

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Neither faith nor rue - Anna Akhmatova "Song of the Last Meeting" (translated by Gerard Shelley)

On that same spot the bitterest rue and wormwood - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXII: Unhappy Bride" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Drop with sprigs of rosemary and rue - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

In their gardens grow the rue - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garden"

Where rue displaced the rose - Cora C. Bass "Light"

Rue and ragweed everywhere - Madison Cawein "Waste Land"

For the path is grown with rue - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"

Leave us to our winter and our rue - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"

All her sorrows, bitter rue - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

Rue, myrrh, and cummin for the Sphinx - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Gentle joys and heart-break rue - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Saved some part of a day I had rued - Robert Frost "Dust of Snow"

Better than the rue - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"

A wilderness of thorn and rue - Emily Pauline Johnson "A Prodigal"

Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Picking thyme and rue - Rachel Kolar "Sing a Song of Witches"

By her head wild thyme and rue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"

Nor swerves for pain or rue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"

A diadem woven with rue - Amy Lowell "Crowned"

Of useless grief and rueing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"

Love in the midst of rue - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

Mock the garnered rue - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Wearing shower bouquets of rue - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"

From a single stalk of meadow rue - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"

And press the rue for wine - Sir Walter Scott "A Weary Lot Is Thine"

Distilled itself like dews in rue and asphodel - Helen Hay Whitney "To E. D."


This ruefully apocalyptic drama - Mary Jo Bang "E Is Everywhere"

Leering ruefully at broken promises - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"


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