Potential Titles: Weary

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Grown weary of dust and decay - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

Weary of sowing for others to reap - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

The wearied ox at eve familiarly reclines - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"

Forget in sleep my weariness - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

A dreary medley of weary days - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

Winter with his weary snows - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Weary of the gloomy north - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

What a weary length of lingering toil - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

Repair the weary soul's decay - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

Undertow dragged him weary to the surface - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"

Weary of wasting strife - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"

The joyless heart of weariness - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 16"

To your weariness of nature - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Weary after roaming - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Fail not with weariness - William Cullen Bryant "Monument Mountain"

The linnet wearies never - Ethna Carbery "In Tir-na'n-Og"

The wind is weary of the rain - Walter Richard Cassels "Gone"

Both the weary and the ready - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"

Rapture to the wearied breast - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"

Who had wandered a weary mile - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

Weary of mist and dark - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

The weary moments dragged their crimson sands - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

In vain the weary, painful quest - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"

So weary of waiting the dawn - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Supplication"

Which lights the weary to the tomb - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Gray which gives to Weariness unrest - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Weary of the wind - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"

Through the night's weary vigils - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"

Weary child of toil and care - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Weary grown of all my brain has wrought - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

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

With weary burden fall - Philip Gerry "Monotony"

While the weary heart can find repose - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

The heart weary of its grief - Terrance Hayes "Hide"

And I am weary of the skies - "Helen of Kirconnell"

Duty still demands the sweating brow, the weary hands - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]

From hours of weary waking - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

Clasp my hands over my weary eyes - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

On the weary grass that grows near your heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

With weary voice and violin - Joyce Kilmer "Court Musicians"

And quiet holds the weary feet - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]

All its weary height of walls - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

In weary moments planned - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

Weary of eddying thought - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"

Being a little weary of Roman virtue - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

Weary weight of tears unshed - Amy Levy "A Greek Girl"

Empty songs with weary voices - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"

Though weary storms await me - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Weary vigil with sightless eyes - John Masefield "A Song at Parting"

Change in hearts grown weary - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Each weary heart is folded deep - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

All my long and weary work - Theodore Maynard "The Mystic"

Though tired and weary from labor - Carlos Montezuma "An Evening's Reverie"

Weary of their poor tribes - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

And the weary may go home - Roden Noel "The Old"

Adam's eyes would weary the world - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Fold my weary wings in peace - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Some weary wanderer knocking - Alexander Pushkin "A Winter Evening" (translated by Martha Dickinson Bianchi)

Weary of the city's sorrow - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To the Earth"

And to the weary be a helping hand - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Homeward pulled with weary oar - John Reade "Pictures of Memory"

Gems half weary of their glittering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

The prayer of his weary eyes - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"

Dreaming for the weary heart of the past - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Weary watchers, guard the solemn scene - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Winds that are wearied of night - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"

Your shabbiest, weariest hunger - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Woe betide the weary hour - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"

Pale for weariness - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"

Weariness of climbing heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"

The weariness of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"

The weary, grey, forgetful heavens - Clark Ashton Smith "In November"

Desolate through the weary whiles - George Soule "Impression"

Weary of the rainless sands - George Sterling "An Old Indian Remembers"

At the wearier end of November - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

Taste of the rest that the weary crave - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"

Weary of all but death - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Weary of shifting rivers and roadways - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

To bribe the weary pilgrim back - Rev. William B. Tappan "Stanzas" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Grown weary of the winds - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Wrapped in her weariness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bear"

The weary years forever - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Weary of undesired joys - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"

The mountain has grown weary of its stone - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"

Weary weaving of curves and lines - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Streets where the weary may walk without fear - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"

Too weary for the butterflies - Helen Hay Whitney "Youth"

When winter-time grows weary - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

Weary from our own regard - Jay Wright "Sasa"


Wandering ships outwearied - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The outwearied wings of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Dim wisdoms that outweary Time - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"


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To wake the weary-hearted - Willa Cather "Going Home"


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