Potential Titles: Wail
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somethingdarkerAnd humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The venerable Priam, I bewailed not - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And bewailed my ignorances - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 51" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
And the wailing winds sweep onward - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
My heart has disgraced me by clamour and wailing - Amir "[Thou, Sorrow, wilt keep and wilt cherish]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
And lulls to silence the untimely wail - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
That wailing wind in the darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "Ad Atticum"
Where new spawned suns and chilling planets wail - Ray D. Bradbury "Thought and Space" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.1, summer 1939]
As of cats that wail in chorus - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"
The red wound wailing in the air - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
o'er whose night three willows wail - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"
A night of storm and wailing stress - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The cruel wind is rising with a whistle and a wail - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
Those plaints and bitter wailings will repeat - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The maternal bird who wails her callow brood - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Heed the wail from the silence - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
Where the coyote's bark is wailing - George Blackstone Field "Recalled"
Loudly wailed the winter wind - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
The wailings of the world's sad heart - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Pan's voice melted to a wail - Edmund Gosse "Philomel in London"
Down by the larch and rushes, her bones wailing low - Lora Gray "My Love Wails in the Mending" [Strange Horizons 6 Oct. 2025]
Out from the wharves and the wailing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Gloucester Harbor"
A wilder wail is uttered by the midnight gale - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The wailing wind and murky road - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Their jagged wail trespassing - Robinson Jeffers "October Evening"
As wailing winds went in and out - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Wailing radio waves warning - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
Like souls in Hades wailing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Where wailing monkeys cluster - Li Po "Ch'ang-Kan" transl. by Arthur Waley
A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Cradle"
The wailing from under the floorboards - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
My spirit wails for water - Claude McKay "Thirst"
That cleaveth the stars like a wail of desire - Sarojini Naidu "Indian Dancers"
An animated hiss and whistling wail - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"
Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply - Dorothy Parker "I Shall Come Back"
Wailing storms and weeping skies - C.I. Pringle "The Last Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.121-v.III, 24 April 1886]
While wailing women recited novena - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"
And the wail of the plover awakes on the mountain - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"
Take the harp and tune its wail - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Seek Cocytus' stream that runs wailing below - Friederich Schiller "Group from Tartarus" transl. not credited
Felt the sirens wail between our bones - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"
Some refrain of wailing in the rafters - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"
A wild voice lost in the wail of the wind - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"
Wailing deep its ancient moan - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
Wailing aloud from a heart unhealed - Algernon Swinburne "On an Old Roundel"
Where the wail and tremolo of loon song collect - Keith Taylor "The Guest Cabin"
Her chant of wailing waters - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
Forest monkeys for my sake will wail - Tu Fu "Seven Songs Written During the Ch'ien-yuan Era While Staying at T'ung-ku-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
the universe in diasphoric wailing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
In my error I do seek them & do wail - David Wojahn "Spirit Cabinet" [excerpt]
With lone and lingering wail - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
Lift my voice in wailing - "XI: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
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The venerable Priam, I bewailed not - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And bewailed my ignorances - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 51" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
And the wailing winds sweep onward - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
My heart has disgraced me by clamour and wailing - Amir "[Thou, Sorrow, wilt keep and wilt cherish]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
And lulls to silence the untimely wail - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
That wailing wind in the darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "Ad Atticum"
Where new spawned suns and chilling planets wail - Ray D. Bradbury "Thought and Space" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.1, summer 1939]
As of cats that wail in chorus - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"
The red wound wailing in the air - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
o'er whose night three willows wail - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"
A night of storm and wailing stress - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The cruel wind is rising with a whistle and a wail - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
Those plaints and bitter wailings will repeat - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The maternal bird who wails her callow brood - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Heed the wail from the silence - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
Where the coyote's bark is wailing - George Blackstone Field "Recalled"
Loudly wailed the winter wind - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
The wailings of the world's sad heart - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Pan's voice melted to a wail - Edmund Gosse "Philomel in London"
Down by the larch and rushes, her bones wailing low - Lora Gray "My Love Wails in the Mending" [Strange Horizons 6 Oct. 2025]
Out from the wharves and the wailing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Gloucester Harbor"
A wilder wail is uttered by the midnight gale - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The wailing wind and murky road - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Their jagged wail trespassing - Robinson Jeffers "October Evening"
As wailing winds went in and out - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Wailing radio waves warning - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
Like souls in Hades wailing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Where wailing monkeys cluster - Li Po "Ch'ang-Kan" transl. by Arthur Waley
A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Cradle"
The wailing from under the floorboards - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
My spirit wails for water - Claude McKay "Thirst"
That cleaveth the stars like a wail of desire - Sarojini Naidu "Indian Dancers"
An animated hiss and whistling wail - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"
Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply - Dorothy Parker "I Shall Come Back"
Wailing storms and weeping skies - C.I. Pringle "The Last Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.121-v.III, 24 April 1886]
While wailing women recited novena - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"
And the wail of the plover awakes on the mountain - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"
Take the harp and tune its wail - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Seek Cocytus' stream that runs wailing below - Friederich Schiller "Group from Tartarus" transl. not credited
Felt the sirens wail between our bones - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"
Some refrain of wailing in the rafters - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"
A wild voice lost in the wail of the wind - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"
Wailing deep its ancient moan - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
Wailing aloud from a heart unhealed - Algernon Swinburne "On an Old Roundel"
Where the wail and tremolo of loon song collect - Keith Taylor "The Guest Cabin"
Her chant of wailing waters - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
Forest monkeys for my sake will wail - Tu Fu "Seven Songs Written During the Ch'ien-yuan Era While Staying at T'ung-ku-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
the universe in diasphoric wailing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
In my error I do seek them & do wail - David Wojahn "Spirit Cabinet" [excerpt]
With lone and lingering wail - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
Lift my voice in wailing - "XI: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
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