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Our wanton mirth has frozen - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

All the dreary wanton years - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"

Caught in every wanton snare - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Wanton mistress to the veering winds - Adelaide Crapsey "Birth-Moment"

No soul had he for wanton strains - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

How in your works they knew your wantonness - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Wantoned around our paths of prosperous fortune - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

Wanton skip with bacchic dance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

In wells of wanton waste - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"

A wanton ghost lavishing an empty feast - Beulah Field "Rainbow"

Danced along their wanton wanderings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

While all the earth is wanton - David Gray "Ezekiel"

Legions of wanton lies - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"

No gratitude to wanton chance - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"

No wanton cares to win with words - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

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]

Kiss the sand in wanton mockery - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

This pageantry of wanton glory - David O'Neil "Poems: Apathy"

Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

My earnest and wanton way - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"

Wooed with a wanton ardour - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Moon's Message"

To break their towers of wantonness and mirth - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"

Purpled with wild grapes crushed wantonly - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

A sail that wind takes wantonly - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Where no wanton hand could reach - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]


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