Potential Titles: Folly

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Folly is an endless maze - William Blake "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"

So Folly mocks at truth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

To depths of frantic folly - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles IV"

Human folly delivered by calm - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

Wisdom on Folly's tongue - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

Answered the cuckoo's folly - Helen Parry Eden "Cries of London"

The goal your folly mentions - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"

For folly's smile or envy's frown - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

And some other folly - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"

Dreams we broke in folly - F.W. Harvey "What We Think Of"

So full of sin and folly - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Until they read in Folly's eyes - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Where Wit keeps tryst with Folly - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Where Folly holds her fair - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April

Mirth and maenad Folly - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

That hath loved his folly - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"

Folly claimed too large a portion - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

Follies all fetched afar - "A Poet's Valentine" (parody of Swinburne's "The Creation of Man")

Pursuing vice or folly's way - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"

Folly, age, and cold decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XI"

Upon the verge of folly - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

Glory in folly and fire and ruin - Arthur Stringer "Atavism"

Who was nursed on fear and folly - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

A cap and bells for Folly's coronation - Iris Tree "Flame"

In the folly of rainbow dolphins - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Where Folly is king of midnight - Iris Tree "[When at a masquerade I meet thee]"

Folly upon the lees of shame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell


And let the folly-chimes outvoice the tone - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"


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