Potential Titles: Fret

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Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"


All the flare and fret of living - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"

The vagrant spirit fretted in your feet - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

The fretting of shadow and sun - Patricia Clark "Creed"

Some fretting ruin make - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

Built with towers of fretted stone - Julia C.R. Dorr "Heirship"

To lull a fretted heart to sleep - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

Still fretted with clotted snow at the sand edge - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

Fret the black sky of night - Sade Iverson "Voices"

Still frets the evening air - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Stay their crystal fretting - John Keats "In drear nighted December"

The foul worm that he frets - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Fretted with burning stones, and trellised with red gold - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Waves of shadow fret the yellowing fields - Lermontof "When--Then" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

A fig for him who frets - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"

Fret the east with lines of fire - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"

All Earth's fretting voices - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Lake Louise"

To fret against the chain - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"

The beggar-king, November, frets - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

The leafy scrolls and fretted niches - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

With lightning in a jagged fret - Frederick George Scott "The Feud"

Silence fretted by cadent rain - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

The fret in place of a hero's rage - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

And fret a moon of yellow ivory - Clark Ashton Smith "Arabesque"

Fretted with husks of men - George Soule "Solitude"

Tossed you the spindrift born of its fretting - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"

The nights that a frost could fret - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

That carved this fretted door - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

Mad musicians upon fretted harps - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"

Though our fretted longings reel - Iris Tree "Islands"

Vex them with ceaseless scourge and fret - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

The tribe of petty frets - Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald "At the Window"

Lift fretted fronts to the silver air - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"


Fretful and full of fire - Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"

Knocked fretful at the portals of the morrow - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Through one short space of fretfulness - James Weldon Johnson "Life"


The fretwork of disaster - Rae Armantrout "Resounding"

The thankless fretwork of the serpent - Joyce Mansour "Embrace the Blade" transl. by Carol Cosman

To the music of rock-fretted rills - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"


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