Potential Titles: Revenge

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The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Sparrows' fierce, avenging wings - Theodore Maynard "Fear"

Away from avenging angels - Dante Micheaux "Striking the Tents"

Strong as the avenging fury - "The Misanthrope"

Like an avenging mountain - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf


Revenge unsheaths her murd'rous dagger - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

That makes our fingers seek revenge - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

Revenge the gory fragment gnaws - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Form a garland of revenge - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

With your lurid revenges - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

That is itself a revenge - Stephanie Burt "Silt"

Hell's keen fires still for revenge athirst - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

The paradoxes of revenge - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

Revenge like the stillness of snow - Jared Harel "January 20, 2021"

Has fate taken its revenge? - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

The surviving remnant enacting revenge - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

Now is revenge for an ancient grudge - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

To revenge themselves on winter's north wind cold - Friedrich Schiller "Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781"

Spend revenge upon myself - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIX"

Revenge of Time that waits within the clock - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"


Avenge.

Vengeance.

Vengful.


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