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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-16 03:30 pm

Potential Titles: Sullen

The sullen beating of his seas - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

No longer sullen break - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Cloud was piled on sullen cloud - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 IV"

Along the sullen twilight sail - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

All past and vanquished in this sullen cold - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

To forget December's sullen time - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"

Melt the frost of each sullen mood - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

And the sullen hills frowning - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"

Let the rude waves beat their sullen music - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

On the sullen beach of the sky - John Gould Fletcher "The Clouds"

Molten lead along the sullen sky - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

The sullen bonds of wearying time - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

On a sullen, motionless deep - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"

Supreme in sullen loneliness - "Hours of Childhood"

Wrapped in sullen mist and rain - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

It flows a sullen stream of tears - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"

Within a sullen glow of apocalypse - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

In sullen packs that loomed and broke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

I carry my patience sullenly through the waste lands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

Sullen dawn blurred into sunless day - Naomi Long Madgett "After Parting"

Red herds of sullen cattle drifting - John Masefield "The River"

The smoke of every sullen street - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"

In Winter's sullen dearth - Theodore Maynard "The English Spring"

Shall steal by a sullen shore - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"

Through all the sullen, bitter years - Louis J. McQuilland "The Country of the Young"

Flaunts the sullen hours - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"

The sullen might of the dead year - John Payne "Chant Royal of the God of Love"

Sullen prisoners in the body's cage - Alexander Pope "Elegy"

A hundred sullen shovels claw and heave - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"

The sullen diapason of the sea - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"

The sullen mayor who reigns in hell - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Stark and sullen solitudes - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"

The surly sullen bell give warning - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"

Veined with sullen gold - George Sterling "Hostage"

The sullen emerald of the pines - George Sterling "Spring in Monterey"

Knocked on my sullen heart in vain - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"

Through sullen Lethe's iron gate - "Superior Nonsense Verses"

Sad tomatoes, sullen sky - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

Rags that cling about the sullen sky - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell

While sullen sacred silence reigns - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

When the sullen sky stoops with its weight of terror - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

A brief pause of labour's sullen wheel - William Watson "The Glimpse"

A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"

Back in the sullen nowhere of everything - Charles Wright "Drift Away"

Grows harder by sullen degrees - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]


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