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That 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


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