Potential Titles: Fail/Fallible
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somethingdarkerA prayer in the form of a failed poem - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
Fails to give the gnomes sufficient credit - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"
Because I have failed under the eye of history - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"
When midnight fails to hide those gleams - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
Made your first and failed exile - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"
Has failed every immigrant - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
Where the summer never failed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
Their plowing seemed but doomed to fail - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Has failed to purge the impure substance from his soul - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Rome's legacy recalled by certain barons in their failing days - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
The trident-flame of the mind fails - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
A thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach - John Berryman "Dream Song 29"
Thine oath that first did fail - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Change on Change"
Fail not with weariness - William Cullen Bryant "Monument Mountain"
The old failing circling in the moth-spattered light - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Where the sun never scorches, the strength never fails - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
From the failing hearts of care - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Yet time would fail to utter all - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"
We could fail the future - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
All your songs of beauty fail - Leonard Cohen "Nightingale"
The failing tongue of a hushing bell - Helen Gray Cone "The Ride to the Lady"
The dew which faileth none - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"
In the future when distance fails - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
With friends that never failed - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
Fail to stem the rising tide of want - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
When all of time had failed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIII: Renunciation"
All fail to sooth our grief, our woe - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Whose eye beholds me when I fail - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"
Hath this advantage, which never fails - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The sun's inspiring fervours fail - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
In his labours failing never - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"
When idols and hopes shall fail - George Blackstone Field "The Breed"
By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
And fails like sound - Zona Gale "Wonder"
Making an inventory of her failing - Carmen Gimenez "Beasts"
Though seldom you failed to be wise - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"
Though the total riches could not fail - Thom Gunn "In the Tank"
Hundreds of missions passed & failed - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Found the failing olive and the cajoling flute - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"
With another's failings gild your own - Henry J. Horn "Byron: To His Accusers"
If Reason's power fail'd in each reeling mind - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Horrors thicken as daylight fails - Gwen John "A Child's Winter Evening"
Fail his ruthless hand to stay - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
As herbs of healing virtue fail - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Shake fists against the failings of insects - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
Gold in the sun, dark when it fails - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Fate never fails to find a way - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
If what we worship fail us - Amy Lowell "Hero-Worship"
Fail at vanquishing my few weaknesses - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Hardship is a limit not a failing - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
Cloud shadows in the failing light - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
My song fails on the wing - Theodore Maynard "Birthday Sonnet"
When prison locks and iron bars will fail - H.P. McKnight "A Prisoner's Thanksgiving"
Breathed as if breath had failed - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Speaks from failing blood - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
The storm-seers failed to tell us - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Drags on his failing footsteps to the goal - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Nor failed for fear of strife - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Failing History and being doomed to repeat it - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
That can fail or falter never - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
In the moment when the light fails - John Oxenham "Wakening"
Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
The way that the sea fails to drown itself - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
All these disappointments of failing autumn - Po Chu-i "Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away" transl. by David Hinton
Failed to preserve what I have inherited - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Contamination"
How we fail is how we continue - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
Belonging in failed ways - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
Language is a prison that fails - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Have a word with all the gods that failed me - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Prate not of failing hopes, of fading flowers - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Paths that have failed - Adrienne Rich "Second Sight"
Failed lovers held apart from the world of flesh - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
the aftermath of failed coping mechanisms - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"
unfurl into an orchard of failed sciences - Nnadi Samuel "Orchard of Failed Sciences"
When the dark hand of destiny failed - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
The shattered hue of starlight failing - Ann K. Schwader "Conflict Carbon"
A failing candle I dare not extinguish - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
Moebius corridors where imagination failed - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
The many failings of fathers and feathers - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"
Gave birth to deeds that language fails to name - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Built pyramids along the Nile that Time has failed to rend - Edward S. Silvera "South Street (Philadephia, Pa.)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Strength obtained from light that failed - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
The mask of a failed court jester - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"
Breaks the line along the failing tide - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
Forget the failed rehearsals of a mirth - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
Turn the old sands in the failing glass of Time - R. H. Stoddard "The World" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"
Whose last branch failed to leaf - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
Fail to scribe care onto my body - Elizabeth Theriot "Self-Portrait as Self-Care Mantra" [Sugar House Review issue 22, 2021]
The one crop that never failed - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
And never fail to cheer - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
Erupting in waves of failed attempts - Edwin Torres "Moth"
Dusk's failing flare sends slant light deep - Tu Fu "Skies Clear at Dusk" transl. by David Hinton
That one whose identity I fail to know - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Fail to satisfy the appetites of the soul - Wang Chi "On Going to a Tavern" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The moon forever fails over blight-scarred bark - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Among the shadows where the starlight fails - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
My wings of longing fail me - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
If the eye must fail of light - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
The aster-flower is failing - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
My wish that failed of act - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
The root of understanding cannot fail - "The Wisdom of Solomon 3" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
And our devices are prone to fail - "The Wisdom of Solomon 9" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Along a scale of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
May fail to recognize their divinity and miracles - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Lucky numbers that failed you - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"
A failure of courage is still a victory of safety - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Honor the percentage of failure - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
within the mesh of failure - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
Flight & failure contained within a single body - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"
Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Our failures have solidified - Robert Bly "The Spiny Beast"
The medieval weight of failure - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Failure on men's awed tongues - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Ideal and failure, sentiment and lure - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
The acrid reminder of failure - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"
Which failure cannot cast down nor success make proud - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"
A crossroad rising over the sea of failure - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Who inherit my warnings, victories, and failures - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong has Breakfast at Tiffany's"
In the mouth acquired by failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Hugging the feet of our failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
My failure to recall these conjured trips - Idra Novey "Value City"
With the ghost I call failure - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"
Feed the birds of my failures - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"
Gnawing the black crust of failure - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"
The great fruits of my failure - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
Failure fragrant as magic - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
Heal all these failures hacking and scarring my face - Wang An-Shih "Old now, tangled" transl. by David Hinton
This inner pattern behind failure and success - Wang Wei "In Reply to Vice-Magistrate Chang" transl. by David Hinton
a skilled enough practitioner of failure - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"
After earnest but beautiful failures - C. Dale Young "The Vista"
Before declaring myself a better failure - Maged Zaher "Untitled"
More fallible than mere caprice - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
By December's infallible bureaucracy - Matthew Zapruder "The Book of Oxygen"
Death unfailing will strike the blow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
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Fails to give the gnomes sufficient credit - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"
Because I have failed under the eye of history - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"
When midnight fails to hide those gleams - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
Made your first and failed exile - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"
Has failed every immigrant - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
Where the summer never failed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
Their plowing seemed but doomed to fail - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Has failed to purge the impure substance from his soul - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Rome's legacy recalled by certain barons in their failing days - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
The trident-flame of the mind fails - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
A thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach - John Berryman "Dream Song 29"
Thine oath that first did fail - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Change on Change"
Fail not with weariness - William Cullen Bryant "Monument Mountain"
The old failing circling in the moth-spattered light - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Where the sun never scorches, the strength never fails - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
From the failing hearts of care - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Yet time would fail to utter all - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"
We could fail the future - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
All your songs of beauty fail - Leonard Cohen "Nightingale"
The failing tongue of a hushing bell - Helen Gray Cone "The Ride to the Lady"
The dew which faileth none - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"
In the future when distance fails - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
With friends that never failed - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
Fail to stem the rising tide of want - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
When all of time had failed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIII: Renunciation"
All fail to sooth our grief, our woe - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Whose eye beholds me when I fail - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"
Hath this advantage, which never fails - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The sun's inspiring fervours fail - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
In his labours failing never - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"
When idols and hopes shall fail - George Blackstone Field "The Breed"
By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
And fails like sound - Zona Gale "Wonder"
Making an inventory of her failing - Carmen Gimenez "Beasts"
Though seldom you failed to be wise - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"
Though the total riches could not fail - Thom Gunn "In the Tank"
Hundreds of missions passed & failed - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Found the failing olive and the cajoling flute - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"
With another's failings gild your own - Henry J. Horn "Byron: To His Accusers"
If Reason's power fail'd in each reeling mind - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Horrors thicken as daylight fails - Gwen John "A Child's Winter Evening"
Fail his ruthless hand to stay - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
As herbs of healing virtue fail - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Shake fists against the failings of insects - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
Gold in the sun, dark when it fails - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Fate never fails to find a way - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
If what we worship fail us - Amy Lowell "Hero-Worship"
Fail at vanquishing my few weaknesses - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Hardship is a limit not a failing - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
Cloud shadows in the failing light - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
My song fails on the wing - Theodore Maynard "Birthday Sonnet"
When prison locks and iron bars will fail - H.P. McKnight "A Prisoner's Thanksgiving"
Breathed as if breath had failed - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Speaks from failing blood - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
The storm-seers failed to tell us - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Drags on his failing footsteps to the goal - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Nor failed for fear of strife - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Failing History and being doomed to repeat it - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
That can fail or falter never - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
In the moment when the light fails - John Oxenham "Wakening"
Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
The way that the sea fails to drown itself - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
All these disappointments of failing autumn - Po Chu-i "Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away" transl. by David Hinton
Failed to preserve what I have inherited - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Contamination"
How we fail is how we continue - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
Belonging in failed ways - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
Language is a prison that fails - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Have a word with all the gods that failed me - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Prate not of failing hopes, of fading flowers - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Paths that have failed - Adrienne Rich "Second Sight"
Failed lovers held apart from the world of flesh - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
the aftermath of failed coping mechanisms - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"
unfurl into an orchard of failed sciences - Nnadi Samuel "Orchard of Failed Sciences"
When the dark hand of destiny failed - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
The shattered hue of starlight failing - Ann K. Schwader "Conflict Carbon"
A failing candle I dare not extinguish - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
Moebius corridors where imagination failed - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
The many failings of fathers and feathers - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"
Gave birth to deeds that language fails to name - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Built pyramids along the Nile that Time has failed to rend - Edward S. Silvera "South Street (Philadephia, Pa.)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Strength obtained from light that failed - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
The mask of a failed court jester - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"
Breaks the line along the failing tide - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
Forget the failed rehearsals of a mirth - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
Turn the old sands in the failing glass of Time - R. H. Stoddard "The World" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"
Whose last branch failed to leaf - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
Fail to scribe care onto my body - Elizabeth Theriot "Self-Portrait as Self-Care Mantra" [Sugar House Review issue 22, 2021]
The one crop that never failed - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
And never fail to cheer - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
Erupting in waves of failed attempts - Edwin Torres "Moth"
Dusk's failing flare sends slant light deep - Tu Fu "Skies Clear at Dusk" transl. by David Hinton
That one whose identity I fail to know - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Fail to satisfy the appetites of the soul - Wang Chi "On Going to a Tavern" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The moon forever fails over blight-scarred bark - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Among the shadows where the starlight fails - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
My wings of longing fail me - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
If the eye must fail of light - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
The aster-flower is failing - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
My wish that failed of act - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
The root of understanding cannot fail - "The Wisdom of Solomon 3" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
And our devices are prone to fail - "The Wisdom of Solomon 9" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Along a scale of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
May fail to recognize their divinity and miracles - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Lucky numbers that failed you - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"
A failure of courage is still a victory of safety - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Honor the percentage of failure - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
within the mesh of failure - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
Flight & failure contained within a single body - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"
Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Our failures have solidified - Robert Bly "The Spiny Beast"
The medieval weight of failure - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Failure on men's awed tongues - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Ideal and failure, sentiment and lure - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
The acrid reminder of failure - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"
Which failure cannot cast down nor success make proud - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"
A crossroad rising over the sea of failure - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Who inherit my warnings, victories, and failures - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong has Breakfast at Tiffany's"
In the mouth acquired by failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Hugging the feet of our failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
My failure to recall these conjured trips - Idra Novey "Value City"
With the ghost I call failure - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"
Feed the birds of my failures - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"
Gnawing the black crust of failure - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"
The great fruits of my failure - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
Failure fragrant as magic - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
Heal all these failures hacking and scarring my face - Wang An-Shih "Old now, tangled" transl. by David Hinton
This inner pattern behind failure and success - Wang Wei "In Reply to Vice-Magistrate Chang" transl. by David Hinton
a skilled enough practitioner of failure - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"
After earnest but beautiful failures - C. Dale Young "The Vista"
Before declaring myself a better failure - Maged Zaher "Untitled"
More fallible than mere caprice - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
By December's infallible bureaucracy - Matthew Zapruder "The Book of Oxygen"
Death unfailing will strike the blow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
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