Potential Titles: Wit/Outwit

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Water will outwit a wall - Linda Gregerson "Waterborne"

Outwitting the fairies, befriending the furies - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"

Though the cunning gods outwit us - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"



Wit and wine and all delights - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

And wit declines to gall - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lost Lights"

Conscious of wit I never yet possess'd - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Weird, tiny knives of nerves and wits - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"

The most proportioned wit to nature - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"

The sharp points of envious wit - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"

And wit goes hunting wisdom - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

And neither Thirst nor Wit has lured it back - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"

The golden arrowheads of wit - T.W. Earp "Our Lady of Light"

Has hived the honey of all human wit - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]

Hold the earth in sober wit - Lee Fairchild "Couplets"

Nor wit alone dispense - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

The best weapon of the readiest wit - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

grief sharpens gales of wit - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"

The common moth that eats on wits and arts - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

Legitimate sport for exuberant wit - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"

Shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Can mix my wits with all the sparkling tricks - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Neither!"

Eloquence, pathos, or wit in cold blood - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

To tame wit's feathered heels - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"

Where Wit keeps tryst with Folly - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Such rapid wit and powerful skill - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Armour me with delicate wit - Theodore Maynard "Warfare"

Wild days of wine and wit - Louis J. McQuilland "A Georgian Snuff-Box"

Though lightnings track your wit - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The sting of wit that trembles - Alice Meynell "To Sleep"

And with your warped wit laugh - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

Wit with wondrous splendor flares - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

His wit ne'er drives his wisdom out of court - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Alone and warming his five wits - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "When Cats Run Home"


Whoever ran pell-mell from smoke-witted man - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"


I wandered witlessly through miracle - William Rose Benét "The City"


Unwitting, held them an hour at bay - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

Unwitting of celestial worlds afar - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]


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