Potential Titles: Jest/Jester
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somethingdarkerA wisp of jests and the laughter - Frank D. Ashburn "The Lost Legion"
Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
With jests that light its troubled hands - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"
Brutal Jest and hideous Oath - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Profanity"
Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Jests that swim the depths of truth - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
Rebuking half in jest - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Giving a false alarm in jest - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"
Pride kept his twisted lips apart in jest - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Took it only for a jest - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
I must jest while sorrow's knife stabs in ecstasy - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The world is full of jests like these - Jessie Redmon Fauset "La Vie C'est La Vie"
Spare my jest and save my ears - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who at the table feigns with sorry jest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"
A cross between a Jester and a Libertine - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"
Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"
Makes little jests at the bells' insanity - D.H. Lawrence "Week-night Service"
Crush out the jest of idle minds - W.D. Lighthall "National Hymn"
Steals over our merriest jests - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
The eccentric orbit of a jest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
A torpid shoal of jest and anecdote - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Your wild jest of wicked prayer - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"
A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"
Apples of jest - E. Rendall "Epitaph"
Could win by jest those lips to laughing - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
While song and jest shall last - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
The incomparable anguish of his jest - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LVII: The Ironist"
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
Where priests and jesters, side by side, range - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
My love was a jester on the rails - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
The mask of a failed court jester - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"
The jesters of light and magic - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Jesters in funeral gear - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
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Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
With jests that light its troubled hands - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"
Brutal Jest and hideous Oath - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Profanity"
Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Jests that swim the depths of truth - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
Rebuking half in jest - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Giving a false alarm in jest - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"
Pride kept his twisted lips apart in jest - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Took it only for a jest - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
I must jest while sorrow's knife stabs in ecstasy - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The world is full of jests like these - Jessie Redmon Fauset "La Vie C'est La Vie"
Spare my jest and save my ears - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who at the table feigns with sorry jest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"
A cross between a Jester and a Libertine - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"
Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"
Makes little jests at the bells' insanity - D.H. Lawrence "Week-night Service"
Crush out the jest of idle minds - W.D. Lighthall "National Hymn"
Steals over our merriest jests - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
The eccentric orbit of a jest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
A torpid shoal of jest and anecdote - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Your wild jest of wicked prayer - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"
A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"
Apples of jest - E. Rendall "Epitaph"
Could win by jest those lips to laughing - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
While song and jest shall last - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
The incomparable anguish of his jest - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LVII: The Ironist"
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
Where priests and jesters, side by side, range - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
My love was a jester on the rails - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
The mask of a failed court jester - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"
The jesters of light and magic - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Jesters in funeral gear - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
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