Potential Titles: Mock

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A thousand mocking notes of mirth - H.J.A. "To a Lyre-Bird" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

To mock black flights of years - Conrad Aiken "Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket]"

Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"

Where every footstep created mocking acoustics - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

How it mocks what is & what is not - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Our war of mocking words - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

Fireflies mocking the false alchemy of ever and elsewhere - Mary Jo Bang "What Was Seen"

Mock the bonds of the celestial slave - Maurice Baring "Dostoyevsky"

Expressly charged to mock the great - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"

Mock with the thoughtlessness of cloud - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Mock whom they were meant to honour - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Mocks the deep, unconscious of the storm - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Mocking me from among the pomegranates - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall

So Folly mocks at truth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The shock and the jostle, the mock and the push - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"

Mocks him with glad sorcery - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

And dithering echo starts and mocks - John Clare "The Woodman"

Made rare mockery of her broken vow - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]

Though the wind of autumn mocked - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

Which should mock the might of armies - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

The clear, mocking walls - Susan Coolidge "Gulf-Stream"

Our mockings of the silent seers - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"

That mocked the poor sparrows - Walter de la Mare "I Saw Three Witches"

Mocking the dark with ecstasies - Walter de la Mare "Mistress Fell"

Hear the thrushes all mocking him - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

While sneering Demons mocked - Julia C.R. Dorr "1865"

A pale dream of Nature mocking man - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

When the moon mocks the sad - George Allan England "Hesperides"

Echo mocks the cuckoo's cry - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Shepherd of Cwmdyli" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Mocking echoes of old nursery rhymes - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"

That wore a mocking shy disguise - Mona Gould "Traitor"

Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

Which neither mocks nor mimics - Harry Graham "What's in a Name?"

And she mocks the thing you ask - Viscountess Grey "Echo"

And mocks the waste of years - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Mocks the night wind's broken howl - Conrad Hilberry "A Bird"

Mocked by its inverse shadow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

E'en Nature's smile a bitter mockery wore - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The dream that mocks our sleep - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Shadowy forms that mock and flee - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"

Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"

Whose mock fires for ever dance - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"

Rise to mock the going day - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

With smiles that mock the wearer - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

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

Attract the public's mocking gaze - Henry S. Leigh "The Miseries of Genius"

And mocked the strength of Babylon's haughty wall - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

Mock with a light of long dead years - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

And mocks with various echo - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

A fixed doom that mocks our poor resistance - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Mock our own blood on the thorns - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Mock the roses flung away - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

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

Taught Punic faith and mocked the laws - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

That mock the chance of fear - Louis J. McQuilland "The Digger"

Mocks him with a bountiful array - Michael Mesic "Mirror"

To mock the evil years - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

Whose voice would mock me in the mourning bell - Robert Nichols "To ---"

But a mocking echo there - Meredith Nicholson "Where Love Was Not"

And distance mocks your shout - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Thousands of them mocked us with their hymns - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"

With mocking voice repeat the sound - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Answered to mock my sigh - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"

Mock not love so deeply hearted - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Promises made and mocked - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Nor mock with laughter his most subtle lies - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Unmindful of the mocking hours - George Santayana "Avila"

And mocked by hopeless longing to regain - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"

Where mocks that will-o'-wisp - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"

That mocks the night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Flower That Smiles Today"

The mocking echo of woman's weeping - Leonora Speyer "Gulls"

With exquisite, mocking arts - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Estelle"

Whose inlaid marbles mock the flowers - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

That mock the painted bow of Iris - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

I'll not be mocked by curlews - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"


Rage against the mockery of art - Julia Alvarez "Anger and Art"

Sprinkling their stifled mockery - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"

Polluted hands of mockery - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"

Kiss the sand in wanton mockery - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

In mockery of care - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

But a painted mockery there - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Before this stoic mockery - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"

The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"


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