Potential Titles: Toil
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somethingdarkerTo the fevered city's toil and grime - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Bring and betoken toil and grief - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Women with the attributes of toil - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
What a weary length of lingering toil - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Toiled like yoked black oxen - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"
Gives zest to every toiler - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
Who labor and toil in unmapped soil - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Venus Nell" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]
Purpled evenings spent in pleasing toil - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Ripened by years of toil - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"
Patient toil does not suffice to win - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Heart-Throbs"
To mount the heights of toil - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
Toiled in the naked fields - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Sufficient strength to toil - John Clare "The Woodman"
This haunt of toil and tears - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
That break the arm of Toil - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
Helpless in the toil of Spring - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
So difficult your toils and cares - Olive Custance "The Kingdom of Heaven"
All who toil and plod - Thomas Augustin Daly [untitled]
What glorious empire crown'd their toils - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The little toil of love - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XXII"
On honest toil intent - Mary Mapes Dodge "My Laddie"
If pleasure steal from toil one hour - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"
Weary child of toil and care - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"
Toil through the morning grey- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Toil in blankness - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
Through long years of toil and darkness - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
A problem for your midnight toil - Tom Hall "A Problem"
A blind mule toiling at a task lost to time - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
Strengthened by the primal law of toil - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
as night drips pandemic & toil - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Toiling in these caverns dread - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"
Gallant toilers in a desperate cause - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"
From which is extracted, with infinite toil - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No. 1: Cod Liver Oil"
Skilled in toils of stormy warfare - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
In sudden toils of torment - Amy Levy "Medea"
Through bitterest toil you follow me - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson
Ground by the wheel of toil - Edwin Markham "Little Brothers of the Ground"
Unwearied heroes toiling on the field - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Will toil in the Future's hundred years - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
Infuriated in the hunter's toils - "The Misanthrope"
A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Lifelong stress and toil of tears - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"
The uproar of whose toil filled your green vaults - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Little knowledge by much toil of feet - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Their compressed toil - Justin Phillip Reed "About the Bees"
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"
Such the reward of toiling hands - Taras Shevchenko "Prayer IV" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Taken in the toils of Sleep - George Sterling "The Music of Sleep"
Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Hath yet his honor and his toil - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Water that toils no more - Edward Thomas "The Mill-Water"
toiling at the feet of empire - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Toiling through the tedious night - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"
Toiled in low meadows of gray asphodel - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Lay aside the toiling oar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Toiling like a star - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"
As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
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Bring and betoken toil and grief - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Women with the attributes of toil - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
What a weary length of lingering toil - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Toiled like yoked black oxen - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"
Gives zest to every toiler - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
Who labor and toil in unmapped soil - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Venus Nell" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]
Purpled evenings spent in pleasing toil - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Ripened by years of toil - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"
Patient toil does not suffice to win - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Heart-Throbs"
To mount the heights of toil - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
Toiled in the naked fields - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Sufficient strength to toil - John Clare "The Woodman"
This haunt of toil and tears - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
That break the arm of Toil - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
Helpless in the toil of Spring - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
So difficult your toils and cares - Olive Custance "The Kingdom of Heaven"
All who toil and plod - Thomas Augustin Daly [untitled]
What glorious empire crown'd their toils - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The little toil of love - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XXII"
On honest toil intent - Mary Mapes Dodge "My Laddie"
If pleasure steal from toil one hour - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"
Weary child of toil and care - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"
Toil through the morning grey- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Toil in blankness - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
Through long years of toil and darkness - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
A problem for your midnight toil - Tom Hall "A Problem"
A blind mule toiling at a task lost to time - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
Strengthened by the primal law of toil - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
as night drips pandemic & toil - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Toiling in these caverns dread - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"
Gallant toilers in a desperate cause - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"
From which is extracted, with infinite toil - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No. 1: Cod Liver Oil"
Skilled in toils of stormy warfare - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
In sudden toils of torment - Amy Levy "Medea"
Through bitterest toil you follow me - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson
Ground by the wheel of toil - Edwin Markham "Little Brothers of the Ground"
Unwearied heroes toiling on the field - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Will toil in the Future's hundred years - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
Infuriated in the hunter's toils - "The Misanthrope"
A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Lifelong stress and toil of tears - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"
The uproar of whose toil filled your green vaults - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Little knowledge by much toil of feet - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Their compressed toil - Justin Phillip Reed "About the Bees"
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"
Such the reward of toiling hands - Taras Shevchenko "Prayer IV" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Taken in the toils of Sleep - George Sterling "The Music of Sleep"
Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Hath yet his honor and his toil - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Water that toils no more - Edward Thomas "The Mill-Water"
toiling at the feet of empire - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Toiling through the tedious night - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"
Toiled in low meadows of gray asphodel - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Lay aside the toiling oar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Toiling like a star - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"
As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
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