Potential Titles: Dull
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somethingdarkerEach epiphany dull and familiar - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"
Muffled by the storm's dull monotone - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
whips the dull season high - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
The plow was dull, the harness frail - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
On the dull couch of Luxury - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Mumbling out dull obscenity - Stephen Vincent Benet "Young Blood"
Their tales dulled by moonless night - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
Dull threads mingle life's woof between - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
A dulled archipelago of air stretching past my arms - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
The dull blade of history's axe - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Words of dull negation darkly fell - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Dead to this dull world - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
Challenge me from dull despair - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"
A dull head among windy spaces - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
The dull reluctant soil - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
In the dull coinage of leaden tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"
The mercy of dull anodyne - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
Through dull years of bitter silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"
Behind the stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
Hours like dull gold - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Dull, bitter light - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Cannot stay so dull and grey - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVIII"
Nothing worse than a dull coat of pain - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"
Grown dull through many waiting days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"
So many dull, uncataloged moons - Jackson Holbert "Unfinished Letter to Jakob"
Mixed with a dull hush of brookwater in the moss - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
The evening sky bruised dull gray - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
The silver charms of his dull art - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"
Though yet the sacred fire be dull - Archibald Lampman "The Clearer Self"
Dull coatings of a time now ambered - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
As dull maps and solemn charts attest - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Writ in some dull foreboding star - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
And laugh at dull Eternity - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
With a dull unceasing thunder - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Your lovers of dull grey stone - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Under the same dull stars - Claude McKay "When Dawn Comes to the City"
Weaves a pattern on dull stones - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
With sleep's dull knife - Edna St Vincent Millay "Midnight Oil"
And my heart a dull, flat flame - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
Dream of dull despair - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sadness"
To the dull, angry world - Katherine Phillips "Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia"
Watched them fall like dull pennies - Rachel Pittman "The Quickening"
Ignite dull talk to fables - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"
Working dull shears in one hand - David St. John "Iris"
Dull pink and out of stories - Philip Schaefer "Gradually Then Suddenly"
We who hear dull bells - Clinton Scollard "Sea Marvels"
Where creeping doubts and dumb, dull sorrows press - Edward Shanks "The Return"
What is dull Time in true love's estimation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
From their dull prison in the dust - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
A prey to the dull knell's sound - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
Dreams in the dull light - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Beyond the dull world's heavy air - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."
The dull axe Time is wielding - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
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Muffled by the storm's dull monotone - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
whips the dull season high - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
The plow was dull, the harness frail - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
On the dull couch of Luxury - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Mumbling out dull obscenity - Stephen Vincent Benet "Young Blood"
Their tales dulled by moonless night - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
Dull threads mingle life's woof between - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
A dulled archipelago of air stretching past my arms - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
The dull blade of history's axe - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Words of dull negation darkly fell - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Dead to this dull world - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
Challenge me from dull despair - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"
A dull head among windy spaces - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
The dull reluctant soil - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
In the dull coinage of leaden tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"
The mercy of dull anodyne - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
Through dull years of bitter silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"
Behind the stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
Hours like dull gold - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Dull, bitter light - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Cannot stay so dull and grey - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVIII"
Nothing worse than a dull coat of pain - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"
Grown dull through many waiting days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"
So many dull, uncataloged moons - Jackson Holbert "Unfinished Letter to Jakob"
Mixed with a dull hush of brookwater in the moss - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
The evening sky bruised dull gray - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
The silver charms of his dull art - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"
Though yet the sacred fire be dull - Archibald Lampman "The Clearer Self"
Dull coatings of a time now ambered - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
As dull maps and solemn charts attest - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Writ in some dull foreboding star - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
And laugh at dull Eternity - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
With a dull unceasing thunder - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Your lovers of dull grey stone - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Under the same dull stars - Claude McKay "When Dawn Comes to the City"
Weaves a pattern on dull stones - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
With sleep's dull knife - Edna St Vincent Millay "Midnight Oil"
And my heart a dull, flat flame - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
Dream of dull despair - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sadness"
To the dull, angry world - Katherine Phillips "Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia"
Watched them fall like dull pennies - Rachel Pittman "The Quickening"
Ignite dull talk to fables - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"
Working dull shears in one hand - David St. John "Iris"
Dull pink and out of stories - Philip Schaefer "Gradually Then Suddenly"
We who hear dull bells - Clinton Scollard "Sea Marvels"
Where creeping doubts and dumb, dull sorrows press - Edward Shanks "The Return"
What is dull Time in true love's estimation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
From their dull prison in the dust - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
A prey to the dull knell's sound - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
Dreams in the dull light - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Beyond the dull world's heavy air - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."
The dull axe Time is wielding - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
Navigation Links:
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