Potential Titles: Adverse/Adversity

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As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Ongoing interest in their old adversary - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Denies all its adversaries - Ada Limon "The New World of Beauty"


Works adverse to my wish - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XV. The Lover and the Sculptor" transl. by John Addington Symonds

An adverse cruel tide will steal the dream - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

The ripple of an adverse tide - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

Sorrow of an adverse fate - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Let but an adverse cloud appear - Thomas Gent "The Heliotrope"

The adverse walls of fate - Aldous Huxley "Out of the Window"

By Fortune's adverse tide - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

By any breath of adverse fate - George Martin "Marguerite"

With adverse fortune fall - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

And still the adverse winds blew on - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Though adverse fortune reign - Richard Wilke "A Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]


Old companions in adversity - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

The stern pupil of adversity - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

Their labor no adversity to the spirit - Mary Oliver "Self-Portrait"



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