Potential Titles: Baffle

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To spurn the baffled clay - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"

Baffled moonbeams and delirious stars - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

By centuries of baffled meditation - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Man"

Strewn with wrecks of baffled pride - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

No baffled hope or memory - Susan Coolidge "Easter Lilies"

Twisted by many bafflings - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Baffled in wind and blast - H.D. "Stars Wheel in Purple"

Hope, still elusive, baffled by despair - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Like vines in a baffling forest - Conrad Hilberry "Mario"

For the wicked will betrayed and baffled - William D. Howells "Thanksgiving"

Baffles even the grasp of time - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"

A malady of my baffled self - Kimberly Johnson "Farrow"

Illusions beating with their baffled wings - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"

Baffled with its own omniscience - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

But fled in baffled rage away - George Martin "Marguerite"

Glutted with baffled hopes and lost to pity - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To baffle Fate in sheer serenity - Arthur Milliken "To--"

Baffled by death and love - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward "The Room's Width"

Had baffled Time and Fate - George Sterling "A Mood"

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


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