Potential Titles: Vain
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somethingdarkerWho have died in vain for me - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
To scalpel the skin into vain grace - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Of ancient kisses vile and vain - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
All Archimedean subtleties are vain - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
Inheritor of vain insistence - Mary Jo Bang "The Year Chases its Tail"
In vain with orange blossoms scents the gale - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Seeking the sun in vain - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited
From the demon strive in vain to fly - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Should not have warned in vain - Emily Bronte "The Wanderer from the Fold"
Vex the desert with vain angers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
I strove in vain to burst my chain - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
With fury fell and anger vain - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds
And vain mad magic - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Would seek his peace in vain - Willa Cather "A Likeness"
Whom the heavens loved in vain - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
To prove such holding vain - Susan Coolidge "When Love Went"
In vain the weary, painful quest - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"
Who vainly strove to rival Juno - William Cory "Asterope"
In vain the miser hides his store - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
In vain the merchant bars his door - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
In vain the locksmith changes keys - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
We fly to silent scenes in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"
Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"
And justice vainly each expedient tries - George Crabbe "The Library"
Rebuked a moment's vain desire - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
In vain the struggles of his pride - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Let memory in vain conspire - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
Across the vain and vacant void - Coningsby Dawson "Masterless"
Nor conquests fabulous nor actions vain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The vain gifts and joys which she displays - 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]
This waste of vain desire - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Counterfeiting shadows and vain dreams - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Essay the vain assault on heaven - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
Vain desire still to be what others were - George Eliot "Self and Life"
In vain that honour will be shared - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Morning"
That you are fair or wise is vain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
From vain pursuits and vainer meeds set free - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Destined to lament in vain - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Vain musicians of time and complaint - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 7"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Empty hands are clasped in vain - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
Who make so much bustle and noise in vain - "The Frost" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
I'm neither that vain nor ambitious - Theodora Goss "Mirror, Mirror"
The warning of reason was spoken in vain - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"
Vainly you call on the bluebird - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
Seek admittance there in vain - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Vainly seeks one votive stone - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Haunting the gate of the Orchard in vain - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
In vain would morning dawn - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
The sumless tale of sorrow is all unrolled in vain - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIV"
Lived here in vain illusion - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Pining in vain some hothouse plant to meet - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Vainly struggles to escape its fangs - M.J. "The Sting of a Serpent" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Poor remorses and vain tears - Archibald Lampman "With the Night"
Vainly might Plato's head revolve it - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
That sea-sprites weave in vain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
I mourn departed Hope in vain - Henry S. Leigh "An Allegory Written in Deep Dejection"
Vain shadows in a dream - Amy Levy "Last Words"
The King in vain laid siege thereto - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Some vain regrets to bridle - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"
Who blew Roland's vain blast - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"
Vain conceits of airy blandishments - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
Vain is the blood of rare and spotless herds - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Far years in vain I sought - James E. McGirt "Love"
Before whose shrine the spells of Death are vain - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Purged of the vain alloys of idleness - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
The snare of vain imaginings - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Search her high cross-roads in vain - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
By vain wishes bar my claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
In vain disorder grasps the cup - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
Till glory be acknowledged vain - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Prudence preached to us in vain - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Had not sought these tempting lures in vain - Philo "The Tribute"
Vainly builds itself on dark despair - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
And stretch vain hands to stars - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
The dark-laid schemes of the vain tyrant - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Vain the wisdom, vain the truth - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"
Idomitable hope or vain derision - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
All raptures known before were vain - Edward Shanks "The Return"
And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Poison herbs in vain she sought - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
And cry in vain upon the strand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
And its burden of vain desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
Were planted not in vain - Effie Smith "Thanksgiving"
Ten thousand tears all shed in vain - E.M. Smith-Dampier "Ballad of the Traitor's Head"
Needing wisdom I must go in vain - Anne Spencer "Questing" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"
To whom the Siren sings in vain - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"
With wishes proud but vain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
A parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"
Why seek with such vain thoughts to wean - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
'T were all in vain to linger here - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
To weep is nature, but to weep is vain - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"
All vain souls candles when noon is - William Carlos Williams "Homage"
In a vain longing for the further shore - Humbert Wolfe "Orpheus"
The pallid candles of my vain regrets - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"
Two nights I wooed in vain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
Till our vainglory puts its scepter by - Harry Martinson "Aniara 24" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Vanity.
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To scalpel the skin into vain grace - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Of ancient kisses vile and vain - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
All Archimedean subtleties are vain - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
Inheritor of vain insistence - Mary Jo Bang "The Year Chases its Tail"
In vain with orange blossoms scents the gale - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Seeking the sun in vain - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited
From the demon strive in vain to fly - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Should not have warned in vain - Emily Bronte "The Wanderer from the Fold"
Vex the desert with vain angers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
I strove in vain to burst my chain - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
With fury fell and anger vain - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds
And vain mad magic - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Would seek his peace in vain - Willa Cather "A Likeness"
Whom the heavens loved in vain - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
To prove such holding vain - Susan Coolidge "When Love Went"
In vain the weary, painful quest - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"
Who vainly strove to rival Juno - William Cory "Asterope"
In vain the miser hides his store - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
In vain the merchant bars his door - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
In vain the locksmith changes keys - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
We fly to silent scenes in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"
Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"
And justice vainly each expedient tries - George Crabbe "The Library"
Rebuked a moment's vain desire - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
In vain the struggles of his pride - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Let memory in vain conspire - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
Across the vain and vacant void - Coningsby Dawson "Masterless"
Nor conquests fabulous nor actions vain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The vain gifts and joys which she displays - 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]
This waste of vain desire - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Counterfeiting shadows and vain dreams - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Essay the vain assault on heaven - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
Vain desire still to be what others were - George Eliot "Self and Life"
In vain that honour will be shared - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Morning"
That you are fair or wise is vain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
From vain pursuits and vainer meeds set free - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Destined to lament in vain - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Vain musicians of time and complaint - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 7"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Empty hands are clasped in vain - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
Who make so much bustle and noise in vain - "The Frost" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
I'm neither that vain nor ambitious - Theodora Goss "Mirror, Mirror"
The warning of reason was spoken in vain - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"
Vainly you call on the bluebird - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
Seek admittance there in vain - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Vainly seeks one votive stone - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Haunting the gate of the Orchard in vain - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
In vain would morning dawn - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
The sumless tale of sorrow is all unrolled in vain - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIV"
Lived here in vain illusion - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Pining in vain some hothouse plant to meet - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Vainly struggles to escape its fangs - M.J. "The Sting of a Serpent" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Poor remorses and vain tears - Archibald Lampman "With the Night"
Vainly might Plato's head revolve it - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
That sea-sprites weave in vain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
I mourn departed Hope in vain - Henry S. Leigh "An Allegory Written in Deep Dejection"
Vain shadows in a dream - Amy Levy "Last Words"
The King in vain laid siege thereto - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Some vain regrets to bridle - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"
Who blew Roland's vain blast - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"
Vain conceits of airy blandishments - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
Vain is the blood of rare and spotless herds - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Far years in vain I sought - James E. McGirt "Love"
Before whose shrine the spells of Death are vain - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Purged of the vain alloys of idleness - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
The snare of vain imaginings - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Search her high cross-roads in vain - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
By vain wishes bar my claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
In vain disorder grasps the cup - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
Till glory be acknowledged vain - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Prudence preached to us in vain - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Had not sought these tempting lures in vain - Philo "The Tribute"
Vainly builds itself on dark despair - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
And stretch vain hands to stars - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
The dark-laid schemes of the vain tyrant - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Vain the wisdom, vain the truth - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"
Idomitable hope or vain derision - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
All raptures known before were vain - Edward Shanks "The Return"
And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Poison herbs in vain she sought - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
And cry in vain upon the strand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
And its burden of vain desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
Were planted not in vain - Effie Smith "Thanksgiving"
Ten thousand tears all shed in vain - E.M. Smith-Dampier "Ballad of the Traitor's Head"
Needing wisdom I must go in vain - Anne Spencer "Questing" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"
To whom the Siren sings in vain - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"
With wishes proud but vain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
A parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"
Why seek with such vain thoughts to wean - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
'T were all in vain to linger here - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
To weep is nature, but to weep is vain - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"
All vain souls candles when noon is - William Carlos Williams "Homage"
In a vain longing for the further shore - Humbert Wolfe "Orpheus"
The pallid candles of my vain regrets - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"
Two nights I wooed in vain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
Till our vainglory puts its scepter by - Harry Martinson "Aniara 24" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Vanity.
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