somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Bait

Fleeting baits that have no hooks - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling "Sonnet" (Poem attributed only to 'Lord Stirling' in source text, but this poet seems probable as he was known for sonnets. None of the later Earls have Wikipedia articles, however, so I couldn't easily crosscheck.)

Whoever takes the devil's bait - John R. Bolles "The Story of Two Bulls"

Angling with a baited hook - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"

All used by the Devil as bait - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"

The reason tortured Tantalus is baited - Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel"

And baits his hook with tender wishes - Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay "Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke: February, Pisces: The Fishes"

Be taken with false baits - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

The untasted bait that bribed my soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Fish-hooks baited to catch greed - John Masefield "Biography"

Every night we baited nine traps - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"

Hated as a swallowed bait - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 129"

Truth becomes a tasty bait - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Fishing for each other, with unbaited hooks - Bruce Beasley "Fishers"

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