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Ever laugh at the fortunes told - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

In making the fortune which others inherit - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"

At peace after many of Fortune's mutations - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"

Tossed on the wind of fortune - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

If careless fortune had decreed it so - Albion Fellows Bacon "An Alpine Valley"

In the smiles of fortune cold - Benjamin West Ball "Concetto"

Everywhere the eye discovers fortune - Mary Jo Bang "When Meeting Beauty"

Waged with Fortune an eternal war - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Appraise the aggravated fortune of the stranded millions - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"

All memory of their fortunes - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Whom fortune must oppress - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 16"

Equals in fortune and in years - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"

Choosing a prince of fortune - Tommaso Campanella "XXXI. To Poland" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Whom fortune pampered - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"

Fortune held thee in despite - Willa Cather "Song"

Change with changing fortune's wheel - Ceiriog "Change and permanence" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Eclipsed by a spray of fortune - Wo Chan "my mother's face"

Thus fortune and disaster entwine - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson

Bask in Fortune's arms - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

The shock of fortune's frown - John Clare "Effusion"

By force and fortune's right - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"

Altitude on Fortune's ladder - "Contentment"

In varied fortune past - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Read in the fortune of your fray - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

That for my hapless fortune grieves - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]

Where fortune's angry frowns are rife - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Raging Fortune watches to ensnare - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Some turn of Fortune's wheel destroy his power - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

The executioner's reversal of fortune - Monica de la Torre "$6.82"

One whom Fortune would not have me see - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Fortune have I none - Christine de Pisan "Christine to Her Son"

To keep up with the brood of Fortune's darlings - Anthony Euwer "The Want-Ad of My Soul"

The wayward steps of Fortune - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

And all our fortunes we'll relate - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

While someone else's fortune drifts downstream - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"

His life-bark rode on Fortune's flood - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"

My fortune sunk in slumber - Hafiz "The Divan II" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Whose track was Fortune's way - Hafiz "The Divan VI" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Filch'd her fortune and her fame - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

Basked in fortune's sun - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat VII"

At odds with fortune night and day - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Old ill fortune of better men than I - A.E. Housman "Last Poems II"

Listless dust by fortune blown - William Dean Howells "The Mulberries"

If fortune changes her side - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"

The rich dews of fortune - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Removed from Vain Fashion"

Though the rungs of fortune perish - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Let Me Not Lose My Dream"

Should not on Fortune pause - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

By Fortune's adverse tide - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

From hostile fortune's bolts - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

Some good fortune just beyond our sight - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

In sleep have equal fortune - Andrew Lang "Dreams"

What is fortune among fading flowers? - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"

Disengage our twined fortunes - Amy Lowell "Leisure"

Taste the spurn of parting Fortune's heel - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

a fortune of mirrors and years - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

Ran fearless to meet our fortune - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Fountain-Springs"

The heralds of your fortune's change - John Masefield "King Cole"

The common strokes of fortune shower - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Your fortune in a whisper - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"

The bird of fortune will land on you - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

To wait the breeze of Fortune - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Sisyphus"

With adverse fortune fall - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

Should fortune frown and false friends flee - John Napier "Who Knows?"

By hope of fortune sped - Walter S. Percy "I Give Thee My Promise"

Drinkin' out of fortune's cup - Walter S. Percy "Knockin' Round"

Our Magic 8-Ball fortune - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

All the varieties of good fortune - Carl Phillips "Wake Up"

Affection follows Fortune's wheels - Sir Walter Raleigh "A Poesy to Prove Affection Is Not Love"

Of dark fortune's decreeing - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"

Fortune's juggling wheel to view - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

I fumbled fortune, flouted fate - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Fortune to brief minutes tell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIV"

When in disgrace with fortune - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIX"

By Fortune's dearest spite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVII"

Join with the spite of fortune - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XC"

The very worst of fortune's might - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XC"

To try his fortune to advance - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Shall I tell philosophy's fortune? - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Proud child of fortune - Clarence Victor Stahl "Inspiration"

By jilting Fortune whirled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"

Who never strives with fortune - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"

The final fortune of their desire - Wallace Stevens "The World as Meditation"

As if fortune's rich tide never ebbed - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

And make a fortune out of all those waters - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"

Fortune of whispered temptation - Michael Torres "Pockets"

Baffled fortune in some new disguise - Iris Tree "[I cannot think that you have gone away]"

Red with the promise of fortune - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

Read my fortune on a leaf of shining holly - H.K.W. "The Leaf Prophetic" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.681, 13 Jan. 1877]

Has drowned the hopes that Fortune held - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"

Though adverse fortune reign - Richard Wilke "A Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

And Fortune's utmost anger try - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"

Fortunes in a dead language - Josephine Yu "The Compulsive Liar Apologizes to Her Therapist for Certain Fabrications and Omissions"

In their fortunate parallels - Jean Ingelow "Divided"

In the throat of the fortunate isles - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin

Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

Some turn of Fortune's wheel destroy his power - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Who would reap where fortune's wheel hath trod - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Misfortune.

The unfortunate fate engulfing me - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson

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