Potential Titles: Idle
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somethingdarkerA little round of idle hopes and fears - James Aldrich "To the Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]
To train the ivy of an idle legend on - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
And stand idly by while our fellows bear stones - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Vanity in the sense of idle conceit - Rae Armantrout "A Conceit"
Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"
When those who work are idling - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Through the idle mesh of power - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The record of an idle revery - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"
The children of an idle brain - Jennifer Chang "Future Snow"
And join the wiser idlers there - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Idly watering weeds of casual growth - Hartley Coleridge "Regrets"
Ask not the idle cards to show - Rev. William Crowe "To a Lady, Fortune-Telling with Cards"
Nor for a second summons idly wait - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Idle music on the strand - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
A fluttering of idle butterflies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"
Whom such idle scruples cannot move - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Their withered bloom and idle pride - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
called you from your idle dream-workshop - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Printless on the idle dial - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
And still for idle loitering make excuse - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Idle talk's quintessences - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"
Earnest gaze but idle hand - Alfred Hayes "My Study"
An idle dream to which we cling - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"
Idle minutes are his reign - Ben Jonson "Venus' Runaway"
Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
This idle whiff of nothingness - T.M. Kettle "The House of Lords: An Epitaph"
Such idle tenants of the soul - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"
Your wealth of idle waves - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Sometimes my idle heart would roam - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"
Sometimes my idle heart would fly - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"
Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
The silver cup idly glinting at the moon - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
Crush out the jest of idle minds - W.D. Lighthall "National Hymn"
As weeds continue to idle - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
That idly seek to grapple with abortive deeds - Maurice Maeterlinck "Prayer" transl. by Bernard Miall
With dower of many idler things - Don Marquis "The Awakening"
Kin to the idle lilies - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"
Wastes only idle breath - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"
Idle in the dew drenched night - Claude McKay "Subway Wind"
The careless sceptic's idle mood - Lewis Morris "The Lesson of Time"
Ask no fabled nymph to lend her idle hand - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"
Idle words breathed of the dead - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Idle doodles and arbitrary scratches - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Write"
Rewards of no idle dream - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
If my conscience seem an idle joke - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
This worse than idle habit - Leta V. Meyers Smart "A Young Man's Adventure with Opportunity"
Idle as any song of mine - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
When strange dreams make deep the idle hour - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
Idling in streets and thoroughfares - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
While idly we wait for a windfall here - "Under the Pear Trees" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Played at glory's idle game - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"
Fate idly throws these alms - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"
Pleasant songs in idle years - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
And idle lay the useless oars - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Let the polished plows stay idle - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Out of idleness into urgency - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Lingered in shimmering idleness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Orange of Idleness which flaunts the sun - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
This audience of idleness - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature VII: The Butterfly's Day"
Now nurture my lifework in the drift of idleness - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 5" transl. by David Hinton
With opiates for idleness to quaff - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"
To look on mists in idleness - John Keats "The Human Seasons"
A doll dress'd up for idleness - John Keats "Modern Love"
Cranes dancing over steps all stone idleness - Meng Hao-jan "On a Journey to Thought-Essence Monastery, Inscribed on the Wall of the Abbot's Mountain Hut" transl. by David Hinton
Purged of the vain alloys of idleness - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Let go of the wrists of idleness - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"
A mind all idleness faces still water - Po Chu-i "Inscribed on a Wall at Jade-Spring Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
In a Sunday's violent idleness - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
Mastering idleness that outlasts this idle moment - Su Tung-p'o "6th Moon, 27th Sun: Sipping Wine at Lake-View Tower 5" transl. by David Hinton
Trail off into clarities of idleness - Wang An-Shih "Steady-Shield Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Sharing the idleness of generations to come - Wang An-Shih "Visiting River-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
Leaving idleness everywhere ablaze - Wang Wei "Adrift on the Lake" transl. by David Hinton
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To train the ivy of an idle legend on - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
And stand idly by while our fellows bear stones - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Vanity in the sense of idle conceit - Rae Armantrout "A Conceit"
Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"
When those who work are idling - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Through the idle mesh of power - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The record of an idle revery - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"
The children of an idle brain - Jennifer Chang "Future Snow"
And join the wiser idlers there - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Idly watering weeds of casual growth - Hartley Coleridge "Regrets"
Ask not the idle cards to show - Rev. William Crowe "To a Lady, Fortune-Telling with Cards"
Nor for a second summons idly wait - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Idle music on the strand - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
A fluttering of idle butterflies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"
Whom such idle scruples cannot move - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Their withered bloom and idle pride - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
called you from your idle dream-workshop - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Printless on the idle dial - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
And still for idle loitering make excuse - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Idle talk's quintessences - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"
Earnest gaze but idle hand - Alfred Hayes "My Study"
An idle dream to which we cling - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"
Idle minutes are his reign - Ben Jonson "Venus' Runaway"
Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
This idle whiff of nothingness - T.M. Kettle "The House of Lords: An Epitaph"
Such idle tenants of the soul - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"
Your wealth of idle waves - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Sometimes my idle heart would roam - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"
Sometimes my idle heart would fly - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"
Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
The silver cup idly glinting at the moon - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
Crush out the jest of idle minds - W.D. Lighthall "National Hymn"
As weeds continue to idle - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
That idly seek to grapple with abortive deeds - Maurice Maeterlinck "Prayer" transl. by Bernard Miall
With dower of many idler things - Don Marquis "The Awakening"
Kin to the idle lilies - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"
Wastes only idle breath - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"
Idle in the dew drenched night - Claude McKay "Subway Wind"
The careless sceptic's idle mood - Lewis Morris "The Lesson of Time"
Ask no fabled nymph to lend her idle hand - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"
Idle words breathed of the dead - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Idle doodles and arbitrary scratches - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Write"
Rewards of no idle dream - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
If my conscience seem an idle joke - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
This worse than idle habit - Leta V. Meyers Smart "A Young Man's Adventure with Opportunity"
Idle as any song of mine - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
When strange dreams make deep the idle hour - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
Idling in streets and thoroughfares - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
While idly we wait for a windfall here - "Under the Pear Trees" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Played at glory's idle game - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"
Fate idly throws these alms - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"
Pleasant songs in idle years - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
And idle lay the useless oars - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Let the polished plows stay idle - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Out of idleness into urgency - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Lingered in shimmering idleness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Orange of Idleness which flaunts the sun - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
This audience of idleness - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature VII: The Butterfly's Day"
Now nurture my lifework in the drift of idleness - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 5" transl. by David Hinton
With opiates for idleness to quaff - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"
To look on mists in idleness - John Keats "The Human Seasons"
A doll dress'd up for idleness - John Keats "Modern Love"
Cranes dancing over steps all stone idleness - Meng Hao-jan "On a Journey to Thought-Essence Monastery, Inscribed on the Wall of the Abbot's Mountain Hut" transl. by David Hinton
Purged of the vain alloys of idleness - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Let go of the wrists of idleness - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"
A mind all idleness faces still water - Po Chu-i "Inscribed on a Wall at Jade-Spring Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
In a Sunday's violent idleness - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
Mastering idleness that outlasts this idle moment - Su Tung-p'o "6th Moon, 27th Sun: Sipping Wine at Lake-View Tower 5" transl. by David Hinton
Trail off into clarities of idleness - Wang An-Shih "Steady-Shield Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Sharing the idleness of generations to come - Wang An-Shih "Visiting River-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
Leaving idleness everywhere ablaze - Wang Wei "Adrift on the Lake" transl. by David Hinton
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