Potential Titles: Fair
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somethingdarkerWith fair fancy for our guide - "Abroad"
Fairer than all music - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"
Seeking a solace with the fair and bright - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
Fair sister of anemone and octopus - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Give the guests a fair reception - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Near of Marathon's fair and fateful field - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Fair with fringes of the frost - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
When the fair visions of memory rise - Charles W. Baird "Spirit-Voices" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Like the drowned Ophelia fair - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"
More fair than the tall cypress - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Fairest hopes, with smiling memories spun - Emma E. Brewster "Gifts for St. Nicholas" [St. Nicholas v.V no.4, Feb. 1878]
As fair as ever saw the North - William Browne "The Rose"
The fairest blossom of the garden dies - William Browne "The Rose"
In some fair form designed - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. First Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Steeped in memories most fair - Richard Burton "The Two Raptures"
As fair a tribute to the better part - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
In dissonance with that fair frame of things - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]
Beauty fair as that in Eden lost - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
All faces and fair smiles of time - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Fair apple trees keep ward - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Rounding luminous its fair ellipse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Forfeit that fair chance - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
Fair as the summer's self - Susan Coolidge "Mary"
More dazzling fair than summer roses are - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Too fair and frail to keep - Benjamin Copeland "Among the Lilies"
Never dealer was fair, never game on the square - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"
The record fair that memory keeps - William Cowper "Lines on Receiving His Mother's Picture"
Fair scenery for song birds - Nathalia Crane "The Three-Cornered Lot"
Fair hung with tapestry of leaves - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
I call the gems from the necks of fair ladies - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
There's not on earth so fair a thing - J.D. [Julia Day] "Clara" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
Thieves of a guise remotely fair - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"
Cleanse my soul and make it fair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
But Lucifer saw himself, too, fair - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
Bring me to fair chambers - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
In raiment more fair than a monarch's adorning - Emma C. Dowd "A Song of Summer" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.9, July 1886]
Fair sword of doom - Edward Dowden "Salome"
Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Fair reason checks these monsters - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
That fairest states have fatal nights and days - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"
A mind devious and fair - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"
My dreams go straying in a land more fair - George William Russell aka A.E. "Song [Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds]"
The banks of May are fair - Michael Earls, S.J. "To a Carmelite Postulant"
That things so fair a mutual bond obey - "East and West" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]
The many Temples rising fair - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Fair abodes not made with hands - Charlotte Elliott "Monday Evening"
That you are fair or wise is vain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
The fairest flower of mortal frame- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Fair hope, while life remains, can never be extinct - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fair regent of the night - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The falsest of fair tales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Day's death-robes glitter fair - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The fair stars trembling in their light - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Life's heavy tasks and fair rewards - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Fair Yellow in the west - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Fair Yellow in the air - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Fair Yellow had come there - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Stands with fair plenty in her train - John Gay "Fable LVIII: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A tangled wilderness of fair growth - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Fair Italy with atmosphere of fire - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"
Fair Science frowned not - Thomas Gray "The Epitaph"
Who do not give a thought to fairness - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Bastions fair of coral, and pearl - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"
Who loves our fairest joys to spoil - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Evening Star"
A host of filial fair designs - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
Fairest courts and portals - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"
Within the fair pavilion of thy presence - Frances Ridley Havergal "Coming to the King"
Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Each fair forsaken hall - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Whose sunbeam rose so fair - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
The fair forms by sculpture wrought - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
A god for some fair soul to reverence - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"
Offers fair omen for a rich year - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson
Fair and far off landscapes beyond that molten tide - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"
Fair muse of the minstrel - John Imlah "Kathleen"
The fair hag, Luck, is in her shroud - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Borgia fair the poppy is - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"
The Fair of Vanity has many a Booth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
This continuum of fairly average losses - Kate Knapp Johnson "Oh"
Fair calm and sacred rage - Lionel Johnson "The Age of a Dream"
Fair and fatal king - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"
The secret of fair souls - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"
A fairer way than discontent - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
The fairest gems of midnight's store - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Blue heaven has many an excellent fair wind - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: IX: Colonisation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"
Mourn not the perishing of each fair toy - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"
All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
Youngest and fairest of the four - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Life rescued and made fair - T.M. Kettle "Ulster (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)"
Bloomed to fair completeness - Joyce Kilmer "Eadem"
Of the night revels fair - Joyce Kilmer "Lullaby for a Baby Fairy"
In the orchard of dream-fruit fair - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"
Bent beneath their harvests fair - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"
Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
And for all your fury speak you fair - Amy Levy "Medea"
Never in fair justice framed - Amy Levy "Medea"
As fair to thee as Paradise - Amy Levy "Translated from Geibel"
Have forsaken all things sweet and fair - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"
Your vocabulary not rooted in fair exchange - P. H. Low "Ode"
Fairest flowers o'er the grave of buried time - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
An enchanted harp to fingers fair - Francis J. Lys "To the Muse"
Dreaming in such fair fashion - Ronald Campbell Macfie "Dreams"
If law opposes a sin so fair - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
The moon's fair face is broken - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
The master Artisan in fair Eden's holy shrine - D.M. Matheson "Mother Love"
Wanton'd awhile in that fair light - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
The spruce's fair free limbs - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Fair fountains of the dark - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Where Folly holds her fair - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Had Helen been less fair - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Fair peace be to my sable shroud - John Milton "Lycidas"
Threw soft splendour on a fair familiar face - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
And false the fairest fair may be - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]
From fickle fair to bid adieu - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]
How fair the tempting journey - Francis Neilson "Far Horizons"
Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
He promised he'd buy me a fairing - "Oh! Dear!"
fair saint of vertebrae - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"
Like the first fair water - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"
The hopeful, holy, terrible, and fair - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Influence of the Outward"
Wrap my eyes with linen fair - Dorothy Parker "Portrait of the Artist"
A fairer form of stubborn - Carl Phillips "In This World to Be Lost"
Ill eagles fair in the lion's lair - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Weave fair flowers into a weary chain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
But birds which sing not are most fair to see - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Appearances" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Whose fair mirages coming hours dispel - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Your roses are too fair for earth - Theodore H. Rand "Glory-Roses"
This fairest offspring of the womb of time - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
From the graves of all things fair - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
When fair Hebe left the sky - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Nine fair sisters in one home - Amy Redpath Roddick "England's Oldest Colony"
Fair fall the lusty thorn - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"
To seek relief in fairer realms of space - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
So fair a house fall to decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"
Slander's mar, was ever yet the fair - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"
A fair table all of the beaten gold - Frederick Sheldon "Belted Will"
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Our feet should know fair ways to travel - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Show me a fairer sky above - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
A portent still more fair unfold - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Fairer the petals that fall - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Cloth of gold were fair enough to touch her feet - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What Time beheld so fair - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
Fairest songs sung to caged birds - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Scarce rival Isis on her fairer tide - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Born of a fair November - Edward Thomas "The Thrush"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Fair right of jubilee is thine - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
In that fair borderland of earth and heaven - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
Fair field alone the brave demand - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Will sell you the rain for a fair price - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
That proves its purpose to be fair - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"
Across the fair and flowery uplands - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets III: Moving Bells"
As a moonlit landscape fair - Paul Verlaine "Clair de Lune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Fairly and free should flow my fancies - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Many a fair hope crushed and broken - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
Dawning Spring time's fairest pledge - Edith Wharton "Prophecies of Summer"
Behold the beauty of fairer skies - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
Fair blossoms spring from villany of weeds - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
Fadeless and fair is that glorious dawn - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
He waits to row me to a fairer shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"
Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
The blackest discontents be her fairest ornaments - George Wither, born 1588, died 1677 "Poesie" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832]
Complete, appropriate and fair - Dennison Woodcock "The Ruined Home"
Earth has not anything to show more fair - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
A moment's windfall of fair-weather luck - Harry Martinson "Aniara 80" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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Fairer than all music - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"
Seeking a solace with the fair and bright - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
Fair sister of anemone and octopus - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Give the guests a fair reception - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Near of Marathon's fair and fateful field - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Fair with fringes of the frost - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
When the fair visions of memory rise - Charles W. Baird "Spirit-Voices" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Like the drowned Ophelia fair - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"
More fair than the tall cypress - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Fairest hopes, with smiling memories spun - Emma E. Brewster "Gifts for St. Nicholas" [St. Nicholas v.V no.4, Feb. 1878]
As fair as ever saw the North - William Browne "The Rose"
The fairest blossom of the garden dies - William Browne "The Rose"
In some fair form designed - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. First Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Steeped in memories most fair - Richard Burton "The Two Raptures"
As fair a tribute to the better part - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
In dissonance with that fair frame of things - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]
Beauty fair as that in Eden lost - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
All faces and fair smiles of time - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Fair apple trees keep ward - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Rounding luminous its fair ellipse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Forfeit that fair chance - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
Fair as the summer's self - Susan Coolidge "Mary"
More dazzling fair than summer roses are - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Too fair and frail to keep - Benjamin Copeland "Among the Lilies"
Never dealer was fair, never game on the square - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"
The record fair that memory keeps - William Cowper "Lines on Receiving His Mother's Picture"
Fair scenery for song birds - Nathalia Crane "The Three-Cornered Lot"
Fair hung with tapestry of leaves - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
I call the gems from the necks of fair ladies - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
There's not on earth so fair a thing - J.D. [Julia Day] "Clara" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
Thieves of a guise remotely fair - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"
Cleanse my soul and make it fair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
But Lucifer saw himself, too, fair - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
Bring me to fair chambers - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
In raiment more fair than a monarch's adorning - Emma C. Dowd "A Song of Summer" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.9, July 1886]
Fair sword of doom - Edward Dowden "Salome"
Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Fair reason checks these monsters - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
That fairest states have fatal nights and days - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"
A mind devious and fair - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"
My dreams go straying in a land more fair - George William Russell aka A.E. "Song [Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds]"
The banks of May are fair - Michael Earls, S.J. "To a Carmelite Postulant"
That things so fair a mutual bond obey - "East and West" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]
The many Temples rising fair - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Fair abodes not made with hands - Charlotte Elliott "Monday Evening"
That you are fair or wise is vain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
The fairest flower of mortal frame- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Fair hope, while life remains, can never be extinct - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fair regent of the night - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The falsest of fair tales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Day's death-robes glitter fair - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The fair stars trembling in their light - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Life's heavy tasks and fair rewards - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Fair Yellow in the west - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Fair Yellow in the air - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Fair Yellow had come there - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Stands with fair plenty in her train - John Gay "Fable LVIII: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A tangled wilderness of fair growth - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Fair Italy with atmosphere of fire - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"
Fair Science frowned not - Thomas Gray "The Epitaph"
Who do not give a thought to fairness - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Bastions fair of coral, and pearl - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"
Who loves our fairest joys to spoil - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Evening Star"
A host of filial fair designs - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
Fairest courts and portals - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"
Within the fair pavilion of thy presence - Frances Ridley Havergal "Coming to the King"
Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Each fair forsaken hall - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Whose sunbeam rose so fair - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
The fair forms by sculpture wrought - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
A god for some fair soul to reverence - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"
Offers fair omen for a rich year - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson
Fair and far off landscapes beyond that molten tide - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"
Fair muse of the minstrel - John Imlah "Kathleen"
The fair hag, Luck, is in her shroud - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Borgia fair the poppy is - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"
The Fair of Vanity has many a Booth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
This continuum of fairly average losses - Kate Knapp Johnson "Oh"
Fair calm and sacred rage - Lionel Johnson "The Age of a Dream"
Fair and fatal king - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"
The secret of fair souls - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"
A fairer way than discontent - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
The fairest gems of midnight's store - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Blue heaven has many an excellent fair wind - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: IX: Colonisation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"
Mourn not the perishing of each fair toy - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"
All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
Youngest and fairest of the four - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Life rescued and made fair - T.M. Kettle "Ulster (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)"
Bloomed to fair completeness - Joyce Kilmer "Eadem"
Of the night revels fair - Joyce Kilmer "Lullaby for a Baby Fairy"
In the orchard of dream-fruit fair - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"
Bent beneath their harvests fair - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"
Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
And for all your fury speak you fair - Amy Levy "Medea"
Never in fair justice framed - Amy Levy "Medea"
As fair to thee as Paradise - Amy Levy "Translated from Geibel"
Have forsaken all things sweet and fair - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"
Your vocabulary not rooted in fair exchange - P. H. Low "Ode"
Fairest flowers o'er the grave of buried time - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
An enchanted harp to fingers fair - Francis J. Lys "To the Muse"
Dreaming in such fair fashion - Ronald Campbell Macfie "Dreams"
If law opposes a sin so fair - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
The moon's fair face is broken - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
The master Artisan in fair Eden's holy shrine - D.M. Matheson "Mother Love"
Wanton'd awhile in that fair light - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
The spruce's fair free limbs - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Fair fountains of the dark - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Where Folly holds her fair - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Had Helen been less fair - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Fair peace be to my sable shroud - John Milton "Lycidas"
Threw soft splendour on a fair familiar face - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
And false the fairest fair may be - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]
From fickle fair to bid adieu - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]
How fair the tempting journey - Francis Neilson "Far Horizons"
Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
He promised he'd buy me a fairing - "Oh! Dear!"
fair saint of vertebrae - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"
Like the first fair water - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"
The hopeful, holy, terrible, and fair - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Influence of the Outward"
Wrap my eyes with linen fair - Dorothy Parker "Portrait of the Artist"
A fairer form of stubborn - Carl Phillips "In This World to Be Lost"
Ill eagles fair in the lion's lair - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Weave fair flowers into a weary chain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
But birds which sing not are most fair to see - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Appearances" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Whose fair mirages coming hours dispel - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Your roses are too fair for earth - Theodore H. Rand "Glory-Roses"
This fairest offspring of the womb of time - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
From the graves of all things fair - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
When fair Hebe left the sky - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Nine fair sisters in one home - Amy Redpath Roddick "England's Oldest Colony"
Fair fall the lusty thorn - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"
To seek relief in fairer realms of space - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
So fair a house fall to decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"
Slander's mar, was ever yet the fair - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"
A fair table all of the beaten gold - Frederick Sheldon "Belted Will"
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Our feet should know fair ways to travel - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Show me a fairer sky above - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
A portent still more fair unfold - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Fairer the petals that fall - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Cloth of gold were fair enough to touch her feet - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What Time beheld so fair - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
Fairest songs sung to caged birds - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Scarce rival Isis on her fairer tide - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Born of a fair November - Edward Thomas "The Thrush"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Fair right of jubilee is thine - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
In that fair borderland of earth and heaven - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
Fair field alone the brave demand - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Will sell you the rain for a fair price - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
That proves its purpose to be fair - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"
Across the fair and flowery uplands - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets III: Moving Bells"
As a moonlit landscape fair - Paul Verlaine "Clair de Lune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Fairly and free should flow my fancies - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Many a fair hope crushed and broken - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
Dawning Spring time's fairest pledge - Edith Wharton "Prophecies of Summer"
Behold the beauty of fairer skies - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
Fair blossoms spring from villany of weeds - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
Fadeless and fair is that glorious dawn - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
He waits to row me to a fairer shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"
Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
The blackest discontents be her fairest ornaments - George Wither, born 1588, died 1677 "Poesie" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832]
Complete, appropriate and fair - Dennison Woodcock "The Ruined Home"
Earth has not anything to show more fair - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
A moment's windfall of fair-weather luck - Harry Martinson "Aniara 80" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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