Potential Titles: Dreary

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A dreary medley of weary days - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

How dreary the winds - Otto Leland Bohanan "Villanelle"

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

Looking backward on our dreary way - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

No more in Cloisters drear - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

The dreary winter's over - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Preserved me from the drear abyss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The dreary melody of bedded reeds - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Cliffs abutting in shadow a drear grey sea - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

Have wrought my dreary duties - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Pour her dreary note upon the solemn hour - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Whether autumn browns seem dreary - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Rise from dreary hours - Francis Neilson "Rejuvenation"

And dreary dreams from heavy eyes - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Save what the dreary winds and waves incur - James Stephens "The Shell"

The dreary wind ebbs, voiceless - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

A dreary shred of wreckage - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Ferryman" transl. by Alma Strettell


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