Potential Titles: Envy
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somethingdarkerThat even tigers might envy - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Protect us from the envy of others' eyes - Alise Alousi "Tangent"
Of wonder and dark envy - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"
Wizard Envy from his serpent eye - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Bright tears may Envy shed - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Arouse trees in envy - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"
Pride, pomp, nor envy, have ever been there - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Glanced with envy at the swallows - C.S. Calverley "Wanderers"
Daughter of envy and nonentity - Tommaso Campanella "XVIII. To Death" transl. by John Addington Symonds
envy of the blessing of birds - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
The patron saint of envy - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Saving when envy speaks - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
To create envy in the immortals - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Worth the world's envying - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
If Envy's hurricane o'erwhelm them - 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]
For folly's smile or envy's frown - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Precludes the conceit of envy - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"
When envy snarls and slanders rail - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Envy her scent for water - Rae Gouirand "Petrichor"
His insolent envy of sweet death - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet II (from Farewell)"
Edges that sought release from envy - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Bound sheaves without the strain of hate or envy - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Envied not Demosthenes his Greek - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses II"
Envy the good bones in the garden - Carly Inghram "Assured Environments"
Envied the painted turtle sunning on a log - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
The hour of watching and envy - Rudyard Kipling "The Centaurs"
Learning why one envies the octopus for its ink - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
The withering scowl of envy - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Envy will empty your wallet - Hailey Leithauser "Loneliness"
The wakeful watch of envy and desire - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sailor Boy"
Envy's vultures in the branches perk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
That fuel the moon's envy - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
The bandit with envy on his back - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The violet medusa of envy - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Abjuring envy, hate, and pride - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
To envy a wilderness - Carl Phillips "The Same in Sun as It Felt in Shadow"
Went envying her and me - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
And envy all your younger brothers - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"
Envied none their gold from labor torn - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]
With envy lighting them - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"
Not equal to the envy it creates - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Demos II"
Beaten by the envy of the black branches - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Have dared with black envy - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Envy the forest its full cellar of roots - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Envy with her venomed dart - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"
More with envy than with fear - Charlotte Smith "Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)"
No envy of immortal things - Sara Teasdale "The Wind in the Hemlock"
Such a flight as archangels might envy - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Has spent this snow out of envy - William Carlos Williams "M. B."
The rosary of envies - Josephine Yu "If I Raise My Daughter Catholic"
We envy islands of flame - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Envious.
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Protect us from the envy of others' eyes - Alise Alousi "Tangent"
Of wonder and dark envy - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"
Wizard Envy from his serpent eye - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Bright tears may Envy shed - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Arouse trees in envy - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"
Pride, pomp, nor envy, have ever been there - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Glanced with envy at the swallows - C.S. Calverley "Wanderers"
Daughter of envy and nonentity - Tommaso Campanella "XVIII. To Death" transl. by John Addington Symonds
envy of the blessing of birds - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
The patron saint of envy - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Saving when envy speaks - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
To create envy in the immortals - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Worth the world's envying - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
If Envy's hurricane o'erwhelm them - 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]
For folly's smile or envy's frown - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Precludes the conceit of envy - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"
When envy snarls and slanders rail - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Envy her scent for water - Rae Gouirand "Petrichor"
His insolent envy of sweet death - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet II (from Farewell)"
Edges that sought release from envy - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Bound sheaves without the strain of hate or envy - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Envied not Demosthenes his Greek - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses II"
Envy the good bones in the garden - Carly Inghram "Assured Environments"
Envied the painted turtle sunning on a log - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
The hour of watching and envy - Rudyard Kipling "The Centaurs"
Learning why one envies the octopus for its ink - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
The withering scowl of envy - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Envy will empty your wallet - Hailey Leithauser "Loneliness"
The wakeful watch of envy and desire - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sailor Boy"
Envy's vultures in the branches perk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
That fuel the moon's envy - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
The bandit with envy on his back - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The violet medusa of envy - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Abjuring envy, hate, and pride - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
To envy a wilderness - Carl Phillips "The Same in Sun as It Felt in Shadow"
Went envying her and me - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
And envy all your younger brothers - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"
Envied none their gold from labor torn - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]
With envy lighting them - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"
Not equal to the envy it creates - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Demos II"
Beaten by the envy of the black branches - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Have dared with black envy - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Envy the forest its full cellar of roots - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Envy with her venomed dart - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"
More with envy than with fear - Charlotte Smith "Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)"
No envy of immortal things - Sara Teasdale "The Wind in the Hemlock"
Such a flight as archangels might envy - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Has spent this snow out of envy - William Carlos Williams "M. B."
The rosary of envies - Josephine Yu "If I Raise My Daughter Catholic"
We envy islands of flame - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Envious.
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