Potential Titles: Misery

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The miserable forebodings of the night - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Miserable sons of meagre soil - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"


Misery flying out the window - Duane Ackerson "What If"

My misery dropped golden tears - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

Manacled in misery - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Whatever narrow miseries I make - Jericho Brown "Taken"

Sow seeds of misery between - C. Burchardt "Complaint"

Driven to misery's brink - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Invited misery back in - Jos Charles "A Sonnet [I sat in windows]"

On the bridge of misery - Leonard Cohen "Samson in New Orleans"

Misery still delights to trace - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"

Misery in black and white - Jeanne d'Orge "The Sealed Package"

Make our private misery the star - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"

Ride misery through the night - Cornelius Eady "The Train (Miss Look)"

To abate the misery of absentness - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"

In misery's eloquence relief - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

Out of the branch's private misery - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"

In Misery's darkest cavern known - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"

That misery perhaps is found - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Lay down this weight of sceptred misery - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Rustle in chill misery - Archibald Lampman "In October"

Imprisoned in dark corners of misery - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Eager with new miseries - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley

Dead museums and miles of misery - John Masefield "Biography"

Against the north wind's misery - Edgar Lee Masters "Delilah"

In the misery of a fallen bird's nest - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Never worth immortal misery - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"

Seeing the double misery - Ladan Osman "Boat Journey"

In tears to vent its misery - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Caradori Singing"

alone in our detailed misery - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

And Misery the quarry - Thomas Runciman "Sonnets IV"

To distinguish between misery and nothingness - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"

All the splendid misery their hands have wrought - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Danced misfortune's miseries down - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

A lie my misery was finished by - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"

His freight of petty misery - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell

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

With all the ridicule of misery - William Carlos Williams "March"

No miserie amaze me - George Wither "A Love Song"

Misfortune and misery were written against us - "XVIII: Nican Ompehua Teponazcuicatl | Here Begin Songs for the Teponaztli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

After a little of what true misery loves - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"


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