Potential Titles: Fool
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somethingdarkerWoe to legs with a foolish head - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles
A thousand foolish things to do - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
With awful maledictions on the two who were such fools - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
The old fool who mumbles of days past - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Wide shoes to fool the ice - Elizabeth Bradfield "A Grim Place for Ponies"
The foolish broken things we knew - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
Foolish impatient apricot trees - Nina Cassian "Vegetable Destiny" transl. by Michael Impey and Brian Swann
Pleased with the praise of fools - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Like foolish birds to painted grapes - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"
by certain foolish perfect hours - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IX)"
Ill that follows after foolish play - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
To see how fools are vexed - Thomas Dekker "Sweet Content"
As foolish and expedient - Carrie Fountain "Time to be the fine line of light"
Gathered ghosts, wise and foolish - "The Graveyard" transl. by Burton Watson
Knaves are busier fools - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A Rhymed Lesson" (selections)
Thrust like foolish Prophets forth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Who launched our Ship of Fools - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
Credited the truth of the promises that fool'd me - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"
Always a scandal to fools - Anthony Madrid "You Better Be"
We fools self-doomed to motley - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
The barren fool in power - John Masefield "Forget"
A recantation proved the knave no fool - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Like a doomed moon in a fool's song - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Fools, into Satan's clutch leaping - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
To fool us into sacrifice - Linda Pastan "On Seeing an Old Photograph"
Sidewinders in the saloons of fools - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Fooled as to her destiny - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
A slouching, foolish moon - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"
Fooled by these rebel powers - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"
Your old foolish judgments of desire - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Fooled into pecking at millet grains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 95: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With trembling fingers seize that foolish heart - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
The haloes of a holy fool to crown you - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
That well-known foolish heresy - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
Are not so smoothly fooled - John Updike "Endpoint"
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A thousand foolish things to do - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
With awful maledictions on the two who were such fools - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
The old fool who mumbles of days past - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Wide shoes to fool the ice - Elizabeth Bradfield "A Grim Place for Ponies"
The foolish broken things we knew - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
Foolish impatient apricot trees - Nina Cassian "Vegetable Destiny" transl. by Michael Impey and Brian Swann
Pleased with the praise of fools - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Like foolish birds to painted grapes - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"
by certain foolish perfect hours - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IX)"
Ill that follows after foolish play - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
To see how fools are vexed - Thomas Dekker "Sweet Content"
As foolish and expedient - Carrie Fountain "Time to be the fine line of light"
Gathered ghosts, wise and foolish - "The Graveyard" transl. by Burton Watson
Knaves are busier fools - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A Rhymed Lesson" (selections)
Thrust like foolish Prophets forth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Who launched our Ship of Fools - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
Credited the truth of the promises that fool'd me - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"
Always a scandal to fools - Anthony Madrid "You Better Be"
We fools self-doomed to motley - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
The barren fool in power - John Masefield "Forget"
A recantation proved the knave no fool - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Like a doomed moon in a fool's song - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Fools, into Satan's clutch leaping - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
To fool us into sacrifice - Linda Pastan "On Seeing an Old Photograph"
Sidewinders in the saloons of fools - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Fooled as to her destiny - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
A slouching, foolish moon - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"
Fooled by these rebel powers - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"
Your old foolish judgments of desire - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Fooled into pecking at millet grains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 95: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With trembling fingers seize that foolish heart - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
The haloes of a holy fool to crown you - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
That well-known foolish heresy - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
Are not so smoothly fooled - John Updike "Endpoint"
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