somethingdarker: (Default)
[personal profile] somethingdarker
A 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"

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"

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

The world is full of jests like these - Jessie Redmon Fauset "La Vie C'est La Vie"

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"

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"

While song and jest shall last - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"


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]"


Navigation Links:
Go to J word index.
Go to Potential Titles: Games - Mental [category].
Go to Potential Titles: Words, Punctuation, Grammar [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
(will be screened)
(will be screened)
(will be screened)
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

Profile

somethingdarker: (Default)
somethingdarker

October 2022

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16 171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jan. 7th, 2026 12:34 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios