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Potential Titles: Oppress

With slumber's dews oppressed - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

November's fogs oppress my brain - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Whom fortune must oppress - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 16"

With gloomy thoughts and thronging dreams oppressed -Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

By loves first fantasies oppresssed - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Parallel greys to oppress the glance - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

The dead land oppressed me - Ivor Gurney "Trees"

With sleepless care oppressed - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

That harassed and oppressed the day - Archibald Lampman "With the Night"

Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson

Night with its silence oppressed me - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen

When by the heated skies oppressed - Too-qua-stee "Dignity"


The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Who received oppression and scorn for his wages - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"

Bursts the dykes of oppression - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Scorn oppression's minions - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"

Indoctrinated words of oppression - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

When day's oppression is not eas'd by night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

The throne sacred to oppression grown - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Oppression's long dark night of pain - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]


Pour confusion on oppressive foes - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"


The austere oppressors in their strength - "Enceladus" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]


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