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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-06-05 03:16 am

Potential Titles: Fool

Woe 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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