Potential Titles: Heart(s)

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To the heart firm and strong - A.L.O.E. "Hymn of Industry"

The rich tribute of a heart that trusts - A.L.O.E. "The Wise Men from the East"

Find some flint in the heart left to light - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Erase your eyes from my heart - Dilmurat Abduqeyum "Nothing" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

To fashion his heart's thanksgiving - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

May the trains bring our hearts close together - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

To hear in silence as hearts do - manuel arturo abreu "Sound Has Ears"

Your blistered heart that speaks - Harold Acton "Old Woman"

Some inner silences are at my heart - Léonie Adams "Apostate"

All night I rode where hearts were clear - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"

Where the secrets beat in the heart - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Fill my heart with quiet music - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"

Your many hearts unstrung - Kim Addonizio "Here"

Lived this long with a heart full of holes - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

His heart unhurt by brooding woes - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

The heart of Wisdom would be reconciled - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

The secrets of a wine which warms the heart - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Then heart would join with lips at shadow-fall - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Far other wishes warm my heart - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Learn to sing with their hearts - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ode to Buena Vista Bilingual School"

With a rebel heart and a flashing eye - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

And the song died out of her heart - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"

In the mountain's adamantine heart - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"

This cruel juggling with human hearts - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

An aging hurt gnawing at her heart - Lewis Alexander "Negro Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

If I should question of your true hearts - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Pulled back by my lunatic heart - Julia Alvarez "All-American Girl"

In the back rooms of the heart - Julia Alvarez "Fights"

The sediment at the bottom of my heart - Julia Alvarez "In Spanish"

Dead center in the human heart - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"

Long corridors of views into the heart - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

With the mute heart's eloquence - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"

Closest to the heart's timed beat - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Sketch on your mind and heart's canvases - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Gaze deeply into your heart's topographies - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

Your own broken and soldered together heart - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

And heart devoid of fear - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"

Awakes new feelings in the human heart - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"

Inspire his inmost heart to sing - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"

To cure their hearts of stone - Maya Angelou "Alone"

Branches from her own heart crept - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles

And swear my heart shall do no treason - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]

The heart can bind itself alone - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Cold hearts and thankless tongues - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Heritage of war seared in her tired heart - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

Their might hearts swelling loved Luna to greet - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Whose heart beats close to mine - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]

Among a million beating hearts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The bullet in your heart is mine - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "Cry, Wind" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Wearing away a hole in my heart - Abduweli Ayup "Mihray" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

An Autumn known to the heart - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]

The heart untouched by sorrow - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Keep my heart from the dust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"

They play a trombone in my heart - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

The heart going up in flames - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

My trembling heart obeys - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]

But heart and soul shall be wanting - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"

Could a monarch's heart subdue - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

His heart of iron did not quail - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

Of power to tame a tiger's heart - Benjamin West Ball "Inscription"

A haughty heart and guilty brain - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

With joyful hearts receive permission - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

The magnet of my heart - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

With a silent heart's potential - Mary Jo Bang "One Thing"

My x-ray heart - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"

An arrow in the heart of forever - Mary Jo Bang "What If"

Gave him half her dripping heart - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"

Pure quatrain in a poet's heart - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"

My heart had found a tune to sing - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

To feel the stab of beauty at the heart - Natalie Clifford Barney "Ah! Night!"

A double heart and a promiscuous soul - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"

A brief wafting of a heart's tune - Lou Barrett "Cradle Song"

Freight cars at the stations of your heart - Lou Barrett "Forty and Eight: 1943"

If the diary of a heart pales - Lou Barrett "Notes on a Thursday Feast"

Fell gently on my heart like falling dews - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

To ease the burdened heart of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"

And the heart in her mouth a feast - Elizabeth Bartlett "Final Performance"

Always starts inside a single heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

reach the storm's heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"

A seed cannot grow in the heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"

your feet are on my heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "step softly"

for the heart that only guesses - Elizabeth Bartlett "step softly"

but not the heart that knows - Elizabeth Bartlett "step softly"

but winter was in our hearts - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

there is safety only in the heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "this much I know about time"

To force my heart to climb - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

My heart at last has thawed - Elizabeth Bartlett "Under a Thatched Roof"

The heart of the hypocrite - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Chill not the heart that trusts thee - Cora C. Bass "Chill Not the Heart that Trusts Thee"

And make the true heart bold - Cora C. Bass "Ours Is the Choice"

As nectar to the heart - Cora C. Bass "Santa's Coming"

The strange region of a foreign heart - Ellen Bass "Experiment in Empathy"

In the sawdust of our hearts - Ellen Bass "The Small Country"

The heart finds every meeting incomplete - Charlotte F. Bates "The Problem" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]

With entire heart and thought - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

The carnival of illustrious hearts - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

To fold enchantment round their hearts - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited

Our hearts shall be the torches - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited

My dark heart's deep desiring - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

Drawing the sun out of my heart - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

In our hearts of stone, where ancient sobs vibrate - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

The deep heart of a black marble - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited

Swoon like one trembling heart - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

A wandering heart drives them to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Breathed ardent from the heart - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Below the fuselage of my heart - Jan Beatty "Sitting Nude"

My rose of heart's delight - Charlotte Becker "Song"

Little split hearts beckoned - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"

Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Sun-wave or heart of star - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

With the evil ice of his freezing heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Light towards the dark secret heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

A hand knocks inside my heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"

I march to my ruin with such a heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Slaking the heart's immortal thirst - William Rose Benét "Imagination"

A dream hard for the heart to resist - William Rose Benét "Lights Through the Mist"

Could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

A place for shattered loves and broken hearts - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Deep in my heart I shelter a song of you - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Secret" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Lying to my escapist heart - Joshua Bennett "VCR&B"

Through my heart its sad refrain - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "To M. S."

Drew hearts round the keyholes - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

A paper-knife to penetrate heart & guilt together - John Berryman "The Possessed"

Ebb and flow within my tender heart - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

Their wounded hearts afresh would bleed - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Your mind un-hardened by heart - Rebecca G. Biber "Little Portrait"

One heart the devil could wound - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

My heart an easy prey - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad - Robert Blair "The Grave"

The fibrous roots of every heart - William Blake "The Book of Thel"

Mercy has a human heart - William Blake "The Divine Image"

Flowing from a heart of stone - Richard Blanco "Torsos at the Louvre"

Light of heart and light of heel - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Yet this heart unwise - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"

My heart no measure knows - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"

And spend pieces of your heart - Max Bodenheim "Girl"

Changed to wounds by the desiring heart - Maxwell Bodenheim "Metaphysical Elizabeth"

The scrutiny of mind, and heart, and soul - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Night has broken her heart upon him - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

From the nurturing heart of the tribe - Jaswinder Bolina "The Last National"

My still heart will sing a little while - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

My heart has known its winter and carried gall - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

Held a rich full moon upon your heart - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

Our sad hearts smolder and burn - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson

I store him deep in my heart - "The Book of Odes: No.228. Swampland Mulberries Are Lovely" transl. by Burton Watson

We have tapped the heart of the sun - Bruce Boston "The Would-Be Gods of Sonofusion"

Is founded on the hearts of men - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

Rhythms of change within the heart begun - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Know the weight of my heart - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

Drowsy heart stirs from the cistern - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

The heart exposed to so many scrapes - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Nor let the aching heart pursue - Francis Ernest Bradley "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.25-v.1, 21 June 1884]

Heart furling tight around new hurts - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

Longer far has my heart to go - William Stanley Braithwaite "It's a Long Way"

A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Who can live in heart so glad - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"

The doors of my heart leak blood - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"

The joyless heart of weariness - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 16"

Many a heart which sprung fresh into life - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Only the hope of a gallant heart - Vera M. Brittain "That Which Remaineth"

The lost reward of gallant hearts - Vera M. Brittain "To A V.C."

I'll unpack my dark heart and Purell my hands - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"

That burns my lips and sears my heart - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"

My heart shall never know despair - Anne Bronte "Consolation"

From our hearts is gone - Anne Bronte "Domestic Peace"

A spring of comfort in my heart - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"

Where heart and soul may rest - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"

The ice that gathers round my heart - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"

And rouse this pensive heart - Anne Bronte "Music on Christmas Morning"

Presses down my shrinking heart - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

The language of my inmost heart - Anne Bronte "To Cowper"

The rending of the earth-bound heart - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

Which made your black hearts pure - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"

When the heart is freshly bleeding - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

How this withering heart would burn - Charlotte Bronte "Passion"

While both our hearts rebel - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"

The amazing lights of heart and eye - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"

Those with shrunken hearts still trying to love - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"

Those with large hearts trying to forget - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"

Better than a lover's heart, the immortality of a name - Deborah Brown "Reprise"

This is pigment from a bleeding heart - Erika Jo Brown "Art"

How most hearts sing a murmur - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"

Of a world breaking its own heart - Mahogany L. Browne "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"

Warms the cold heart of the moon - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In an Old Orchard"

The heart does smell thee sweet - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

From my heart to heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The silence of my heart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

O distant, sinful heart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

The treacherous forsaking of other hearts - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Anything as true as a bird's magnetic heart - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

Where a frozen heart can melt - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"

The two sides of her heart exchanging blood - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"

A heart of flaming sulphur - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Feed my heart on poisonous thoughts - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LXX. A Prayer for Strength" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Let my heart forget - C. Burchardt "Complaint"

Complete destruction of the heart's desire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

Surveys with aching heart - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Heart-Throbs"

Closed the heart's fraternal gate - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Bind the wounded heart that bleeds - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Somber is the sound the heart makes - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

An apogee to the heart - Anthony Butts "Apogee"

With steel-clad breast, and coward heart - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

And foreign hills but bruise the heart - Witter Bynner "Foreign Hills"

Leaves no rest to the heart - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

I was in my heart - Julie Byrne "All the Land Glimmered Beneath"

And the heart must pause to breathe - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"

From mouth to throat to the furnaces of the heart - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

To prevent the body's claim upon the heart - Scott Cairns "Loves"

Do you have the heart to say the truth? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

No longing in a heart unsatisfied - Frank Oliver Call "The Vision"

my heart was a clock on the kitchen wall - Nicole Callihan "dwelling"

Keeping the earth's heart beating - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

Feeling thy heart's worst wound - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Hearts there have withered - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]

Where hearts forget to weep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Beyond the Hills of Dream"

From the failing hearts of care - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"

Nor heart of doubting prove - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

A curse to the heart of the night - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

The heart of her haunted lands - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"

Tear those idols from my heart - Thomas Carew "To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation of the Psalms"

No rest-house for the heart - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Our prisoner hearts unbar - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Discovery"

Hearts fluttered by a breeze - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"

Clod of clay with heart of fire - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

Signing allegiance of a thousand hearts - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

Devours the darkness of our hearts with fire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"

Sorrows in her heart of gold - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "St. Patrick's Treasure"

A road trip all over my mind and heart - Anne Carson "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"

Quench the thirst of the longing heart - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Hearts that break into clusters of stars - Ana Castillo "Whitman"

On what heart I found delight - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"

Outlasting hearts and houses - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"

Our twin-kingdomed hearts - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

To sorrowing hearts a gracious promise - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"

Among the great of mind and heart - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Land of the uncorrupted heart - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

In this fond enthusiast heart has found - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Listen to the heart's sea - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"

The heart is the best navigator - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"

The heart is a whittled twig - Tina Chang "Duality"

His heart fiercely tethered to mine - Tina Chang "Fury"

A doubt that makes my heart grow sick - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Bruising my heart against its rocky breast - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

The hearts that float where flows the tide - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

Resplendent shines your crystal heart - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"

Pure and lucent hearts - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]

The heart of the locked battle - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

The hare has still more heart to run - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

And seven swords were in her heart - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Stitch your heart's fissure - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

Unstrung by her heart's first sorrow - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"

Drawn out from the soup of your heart - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

the mutterings of sunburned hearts - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

Nursing a heart full of jealousy and spite - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Green heart exchanged for ash - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"

A guest to every heart's desire - John Clare "The Old Year"

She borrows the heart from the Tin Man - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

walk my bones and my heart - Lucille Clifton "the death of crazy horse"

My heart swells high with scorn and hate - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]

Of the heart when it wanders on - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

Which buys bold hearts free - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

To quiet all repinings of the heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Balm for every wounded heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XI"

And darker hearts' despair - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"

The prayerless heart prepare - Arthur Hugh Clough "Qui Laborat, Orat"

A heart for loves to travel - Arthur Hugh Clough "Through a Glass Darkly"

To these refuse my heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."

With these lips instruct my heart - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"

Let my heart get frozen - Leonard Cohen "Almost Like the Blues"

My heart hates the trees - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

Your name unifies the heart - Leonard Cohen "I Lost My Way"

On all these burning hearts in hell - Leonard Cohen "If It Be Your Will"

Who unifies the upward heart - Leonard Cohen "It Is to You I Turn"

My heart the only beacon - Leonard Cohen "The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004"

Gave my heart to a mountain - Leonard Cohen "No One After You"

Teach old hearts to break - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"

Teach old hearts to rest - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"

The heart will not retreat - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"

The fine and twisted shapes of the heart - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"

The soft places in the center of the heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

The dragon's teeth that have spilled from your heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Unmoved by pity or the dark heart of the sea - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

Pouring hunger through my heart - Henri Cole "Dune"

My heart dreams of return - Henri Cole "Twilight"

Who plead for their heart's desire - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

Blue at heart deep-frozen - Katharine Coles "You Won't Find Consolation"

The divine sun that nourishes my heart - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Lynne Lawner

See the gold heart emerging - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"

Whose heart is a rose - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"

Many the hard and jealous hearts - "Colum Cille's Greeting to Ireland" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Your crushed heart's wound still burns - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"

A river in her heart - Hilda Conkling "Moon Thought"

In her dreamful heart - Hilda Conkling "Sunset"

And closing my heart to truth - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

The burning heart of everything we see - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Cradling in their hearts the storm - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Infinite Love rules the heart of the storm - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Lay my heart upon his path - Susan Coolidge "Two Ways to Love. II"

I save your scarlet heart for last - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"

That heals the sad heart's strife - Benjamin Copeland "The Light of Life"

Uplift the song thrills each heart's core - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

A heart at the mile's end beckons - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"

From the hidden heart of Night - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

Forever in thy heart attune - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

The hour of his heart's despairing - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"

Valiant heart performing miracles of art - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"

With beating hearts and eager eyes - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"

Earned her bread with a patient heart - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Motherless Child"

My silent heart is stirred - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "A September Robin"

With brave heart we'll sing on, little bird - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "A September Robin"

Shed no beams upon my weak heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

To let a red sword of virtue plunge into my heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Many red devils ran from my heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Whose heart hung humble as a button - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"

Cry a brotherhood of hearts - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"

Love not consumed in passion's heart - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

I have no heart for noon-tide - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

Dear companion of my heart's shed blood - Adelaide Crapsey "White Rose"

In the tiny offices of the heart - James Crews "Awe"

Heart of lead and wry despair - George Cronyn "Song (After an old English tune)"

The heart is a continuously open wound - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

That burning heart of blood to spend - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

When I was young and sure of heart - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"

Born of the sorrowful heart - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

When the sharp wedge cracks my arid heart - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

My heart is quick to bleed - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"

whose warmest heart recoiled at war - E. E. Cummings "i sing of Olaf glad and big"

A heart to fear - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"

for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"

Cluster round the young heart's shrine - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Unsatisfied hearts hungry for happiness - Olive Custance "The Storm"

With winter in my heart - Olive Custance "The Vision"

Have lost heart for this - H.D. "Orion Dead"

And ripe fruits in their purple hearts - H.D. "Pear Tree"

Set some seal on my bitter heart - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

If I escape your evil heart - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

The glory of a modest heart - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"

All the heart's treasure lying bare - Danske Dandridge "The Moth and the Evening Primrose"

And steep our hearts in stillness - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

Burning out the clutch of the heart - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"

Immortal with the very heart of me - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

The noisy thunders of my heart suppress - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"

The food my heart demands - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XIII"

The heart of London beating warm - John Davidson "London"

Sweet to a heart unentangled and light - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Has bowed the heart of me - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"

Deeper bends the heart of me - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"

To feed on the burdens of your heart - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

Our earnest converse, heart to heart - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Froze his passion with a heart of stone - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

By drops, distil my streaming heart - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman

Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

Time's cold had closed my heart about - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"

Their carver with heart of stone - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Steadfast refuge from a fickle heart - Walter de la Mare "Vain Questioning"

Lifts up my heart above all thought of pride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

For whom my heart is kindled in desire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

My heart is broken down with bitter pain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Who holds my heart in joy - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Into whose dominion I yield my heart - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Deep in my heart's remembrance and delight - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Makes a young heart melancholy - Aubrey de Vere "Song"

Buzzed like an electric heart - Diana Marie Delgado "Wolf (1)"

In the fists of their hearts - Heather Derr-Smith "Hide Out"

Break the bones to get to the heart - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"

Would no longer scar his autumnal heart - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Fire Eater"

The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXV: Shipwreck"

Futile the winds to a heart in port - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love VII"

Stop one heart from breaking - Emily Dickinson [untitled]

If you cannot capture their hearts in death - 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"

The simple motions of the lungs and heart - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Beloved of my inmost heart - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]

The food your hearts shall eat - Mary Mapes Dodge "The Moral"

Sweet if the heart so dares - Dom "Risking for a Sign"

Cut in the heart of the galaxy - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

The flame in the heart of a ruby set - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"

The low tones that thrilled my heart - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"

A hiccup of frog's tiny heart - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Creatures"

In the wood's deep heart I lay me down - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Across the great bruised heart of the South - Rita Dove "Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons]" [excerpt]

Fit to sally forth and trample each plopped heart - Rita Dove "Girls On the Town, 1946"

The passion of my heart compressed - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Embalmed hearts of summers dead - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

His heart upon the gale of song - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

My musing heart suddenly kindled - Edward Dowden "The Gift"

And the grey dust of a heart - Edward Dowden "Helena"

To lull a fretted heart to sleep - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

My heart was as a cinder - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

In the heart's blind waste - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"

What deep heart of the ancient hills - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"

Oblivion took the heart and eye - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel III: The Castle"

Courting oblivion of the heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Frauds of the unfilled heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Muses in hushed heart-vacancy - Edward Dowden "Ritualism"

Hope to sting the heart - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

Chill the heart and snare the feet - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

The secret of his brother's heart - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Pull my heart out with teeth and claws - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Into the night old hearts came - Louise Driscoll "Fireflies"

Heal your hearts with tears - Dry Branch Fire Squad "Memories That Bless and Burn"

And dust was either heart - Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux "Love Stronger than Death"

In the heart of the honeyed dark - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"

In a tower in the dark heart - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"

Red as first love's heart - Carol Ann Duffy "The Woman Who Shopped"

The heart shocked awake - Cheryl Dumesnil "It's not the Holy Spirit"

Purple carnations dark as my heart - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

In an angle of my heart - Anjela Duval "Karantez-Vro" (translated by dhampyresa)

The heart's fallen architecture - Cornelius Eady "My Eyes"

Has given me a poisoned heart - Cornelius Eady "My Heart"

A pang that rends the heart - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Have no heart for singing - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"

Looking into the heart of light - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"

Who can transform and cleanse my heart - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"

And filled their hearts with flame - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

Faced danger with a heart of trust - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Forbearance"

Coil gloom around wicked hearts - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Brought down from heaven's heart - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle

Your heart is strewn with frightful light - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 29. E-Mah, the Temple of Ninhursanga and Asghi in Adab" transl. by Sophus Helle

Blue as the heart itself - Elaine Equi "Snapshots of Water"

Whose garden was the loving heart - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"

Around no heart do richer feelings cluster - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

With flowers and bullets in my heart - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"

Hearts grinding like millstones - Martin Espada "The Socialist in the Crowd"

No armour for the heart - Sir George Etherege "Song"

Deep fjords through the heart - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"

And heart of stone within- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"

The pang that seeks the heart - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Witch's Chant"

Sealed my red heart's inmost core - Anthony Euwer "The Sequoia Gigantia"

The homage of ten thousand hearts - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]

The dreams the aching heart forgets - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

In the heart's vibrations - Ed Falco "Morning Voices"

My arrow through the heart of Wrong - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Woven through the heart of night - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"

The heart of a flower on fire - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"

Plays the wooden flute of her heart - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani

Their hearts curled and purring - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

Love's dart lurks in my heart too - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And my dead heart would bless oblivion - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oblivion"

Pounding our stubborn hearts on freedom's bars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

One heart held open to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

From what troubled streams his heart is fed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Sonnet XXIX"

Since her heart was still and hard - Annie Finch "Strangers"

news to starve my heart - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Breathe the incense of the heart - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Drops the moonlight through my heart - James Elroy Flecker "Santorin"

A riddle made to break my heart - John Gould Fletcher "Masonubu -- Early"

Termite trails to the heart of the fire - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"

Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Allure our hearts from selfishness - "Flowers" [Our Little Tot's Own Book, 1912]

The heart is the inverse of gravity - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"

Weave a ladder to your heart - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"

That nestles safe close to the heart of France - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

The shadow of the Enemy had left his heart and face - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

After your heart mines a cavern in your chest - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

Tell of hearts you've sadly broken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

The heart's deep anguished grave - Mary Weston Fordham "A Reverie"

Clusters with hearts of crimson - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"

Shrined within my faithful heart - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]

I kneel with heart all crushed and sore - Fanny Forrester "Not Lost, but Gone Before" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.3-v.I, 19 Jan. 1884]

While my heart in rapture sings - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

Lingers in the heart's secret places - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

The weeping heart of all things - Vievee Francis "Clarity"

My heart skipped quicker than a swallow's - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"

My heart skipped quicker than a swallow's - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"

Burning refugee hearts - Jazno Francoeur "Home"

The strangeness of the heart's breaking seas - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

The heart to which its strains belong - Fritz "The Poet's Power" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.461, 30 Oct. 1852]

When the world's cold heart no more is stirred - Fritz "The Poet's Power" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.461, 30 Oct. 1852]

Give a heart to the hopeless fight - Robert Frost "In Equal Sacrifice"

Hearts not averse to being beguiled - Robert Frost "October"

The mind whirls and the heart sings - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"

That I need learn to let go with the heart - Robert Frost "Wild Grapes"

Their hearts brave the Four Oceans - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Too ready to perceive joy's inmost heart of pain - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]

While I was monarch of your heart - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

Draw our hearts more distant - Jeannine Hall Gailey "As Venus and Jupiter Come Together, We Fall Apart"

The pouring sun was in my heart - Zona Gale "At Least..."

In my heart like water in a well - Zona Gale "At Least..."

Opened my heart to the sun - Zona Gale "Inmost One"

Hope has found in her heart a tomb - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

To roll the clouds of midnight from your hearts - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

That bent and broke my heart - Theodosia Garrison "A Ballad of Halloween"

All night upon my heart - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"

The clear rumbling of your heart at ease - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

My heart in its deep voice, commanding - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

Sudden stillness fills my heart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton

Like the moon, times change, and hearts - Emanuel Geibel "[There stands the ancient gabled house]" transl. by Edith Wharton

Heart like a plateful of black flames - Jenny George "Sunflowers"

My heart is still veiling dawn - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

The sound of my heart finally opening - Andrea Gibson "Letter to the Editor"

Their family's hunted hearts - Andrea Gibson "Photoshopping My Sister's Mugshot"

Unto the banquet of the heart are brought - Charles Gibson "Sonnets I"

Our hearts happy with love unexpressed - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

My heart answering to the call - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"

Set my heart replying and jangling - Wilfrid Gibson "The Parrots"

Abide the brunt with valiant hearts - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

Like a parched heart - Michelle Gil-Montero "First Forty Days"

Gets your heart broken over cruel words - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"

To hide your wounded heart - brian g. gilmore "at malcolm x street, lansing, michigan (for earl little)"

Buried in the desert of her heart - Ellen Glasgow "Aridity"

And each night my heart protested - Louise Gluck "An Adventure"

And my heart became the steed - Louise Gluck "An Adventure"

The fire of my own heart - Louise Gluck "The Red Poppy"

That weeping of the heart that mounts not to the eyes - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

To feed his heart on innutritious dreams - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

The wailings of the world's sad heart - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

The stars have cruel hearts - Louis Golding "The Shepherd"

My heart that rocks in silence - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

The red sparks in my heart - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"

The rattle of your aching heart - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"

Cut out the yellow heart of heaven - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

Breathing songs from her heart - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Cash is the measure of the heart - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"

With free rejoicing heart - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"

A thief who has already stolen one's heart - Theodora Goss "Mr. Fox"

To let the heart sleep lightly - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"

And make my heart forget you - Mona Gould "Promise"

Who held his heart in thrall - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"

The hungry horde is dining on her heart - Mona Gould "Tea-Party"

In the secret places under my heart - Mona Gould "You, the Sower of Seed"

With the flow of mingled hearts - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Let not your anxious hearts be swayed - C. L. Graves "A Ballad of Eels"

If his heart be not of steel or stone - C. L. Graves "'Bleak House'"

In their heart of hearts a throne of special glory - C. L. Graves "The Old Matron"

Head burning and heart snarling - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

With battle murder at my heart - Robert Graves "The Shadow of Death"

It's pride that makes the heart so great - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

Unicorn with bursting heart - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Clockwork heart capricious - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"

Melts no heart but mine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

Pierce our hearts with cold death frost - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"

The corporate symbol of my heart - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

And mere murderous hearts - Kimberly Grey "We Are Mostly Alright"

To camouflage cracked hearts - Nikki Grimes "Common Denominator"

In the cage of your heart - Nikki Grimes "Lessons"

To protect my heart-songs - Nikki Grimes "A Safe Place"

Drying out the heart - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

Errors of the heart and hand - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"

Wake up with my heart - Paul Guest "Post-Factual Love Poem"

Whose hearts are constant - Arthur Guiterman "The Twilight of the Gods"

Weed well your own deceitful hearts - Eliza Paul Gurney "Ephesians 4:32"

A tale of severed ties to break the bleeding heart - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

Till my heart drains joy's cup - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"

Hearts resolved to every sacrifice - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"

We shall grow free of heart - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"

Why hearts of courage forget - Ivor Gurney "The Tower"

Speaking this, their heart language - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"

With magic spell had taught my untaught heart - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The desolate heart reverts to those far moments - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Alarmed by the heart's death-march notes - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Every heart sets up its separate Dagon - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

My heart is cold, and withered, and worn - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

'Tis winter cold for the heart that grieves - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

My heart abhors the cloister - Hafiz "The Divan V" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Yet angels' hearts were cold - Hafiz "The Divan XXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Cold as the heart of a colorless rose - Katherine Hale "Christmas Eve"

With hearts as light as snow-flakes fall - Ellyn Hall "Bringing home the holly" [Laugh and Play, no date, Project Gutenberg]

While the weary heart can find repose - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

An evening twilight of the heart - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

And honest hearts were aching - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

The way a heart can light a world - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

Perhaps my heart will stay uncertain - Nathalie Handal "The City"

Only our unmade hearts - Nathalie Handal "Dor"

Where your heart is from - Nathalie Handal "Nadege"

My heart lay still in the hand of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"

One last gem from the heart of the mine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

From twain spheres with hearts distuned - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"

As our hearts walked home - Joy Harjo "Bourbon and Blues"

Opens all the doors of our hearts - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"

Believing the trickery of the heart - Joy Harjo "The Returning"

With their hearts of sleeping volcanoes - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"

The bones that cracked in your heart - Joy Harjo "What Music"

Close not heart nor hand - Frances E.W. Harper "Burial of Sarah"

Whose hearts would flow together - Frances E.W. Harper "Home, Sweet Home"

Before my heart's closed door - Frances E.W. Harper "The Refiner's Gold"

Melting its thick heart and ripping it all away - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"

To learn my heart's language - Jim Harrison "Hard Times"

Through the hush of my heart - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Calling to Me"

Shall his heart forget the highways - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"

In the riot of our bounding hearts - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "St. Patrick's Day"

The haunted heart that turns - F.W. Harvey "Identity"

A country by my own heart walled - F.W. Harvey "Since I Have Loved"

The shuddering of the heart compressed - Yona Harvey "Hickory Street, New Orleans"

Ask the lover's heart - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"

The heart weary of its grief - Terrance Hayes "Hide"

Mutual raptures to congenial hearts - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"

Flourished the stained cape of his heart - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

My heart on my fist like a blind falcon - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

In tameless hearts shall live - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

With ardent hearts advance - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Language to pervade the heart - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

Rise from the heart's fountain - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Cast the stones from your heart - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed (Hendan) "Returning to the Fire" transl. by author and edited by Darren Byler

I break my heart on your hard unfaith - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

With her warm flower heart - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A City Guest"

A heart's low moaning over wasted days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Disappointment"

Wait fulfilment of our hearts' decree - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--When Summer Comes"

The echoed note of a heart's sad psalm - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Slack Tide"

And would not share the smallest atom of her Heart - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

A heart your have been stealing - Oliver Herford "The Heart of Ice"

Enfold it nearer to our Heart's Desire - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

There offered up his golden heart - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

And hard hearts to outride them - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

Flattens his heart on granite - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Night on a Mountain"

The distinctions between diamonds and hearts - Emily Hiestand "Planting in Tuscaloosa"

I began as the Queen of Hearts - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"

Deeply rooted in this heart so true - Jennie Earngey Hill "Enchantment"

A bleeding heart can never beat as strong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"

My heart through distance learnt its lore - Kate Hillard "After a Year" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]

Branches reaching the planet heart - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Reaching the planet heart by the billions - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Walked past pines to their hearts' desire - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Presses my pinched heart - Anna Grossnickle Hines "Weightless"

Take heart in the pale light - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Autumn in his heart - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

Cut open my pilgrim heart - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

What the migrant heart knows - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

Sleepwalking his open heart - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

Crack open my heart for you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

Ruining your heart over mug after mug of bitter coffee - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

Seed-black of the waiting heart - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Bidding hearts revel in enjoyment wild - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

The traveler's heart has a hundred thoughts - Ho Sun "At Parting" transl. by Burton Watson

Shaking your heart from my hair - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

That my heart may cease to ache - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: A Tribute"

Better without a heart - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

By all that thrills the beating heart - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"

Vital candle in close heart's vault - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Candle Indoors"

How soon the heart forgets its wrong - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

Play hypocrite to my own heart - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Peace"

And choke the fountains of the heart - S.S. Hornor "The Broken Reed"

Followed the chart of her soaring heart - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

And heart cannot count the cost - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Vultures have crimsoned their beaks in thy heart - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The hushed belfry of the heart - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"

Through hearts that are unconquered still - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The calmest sunshine of the heart - "Hours of Childhood"

Fasten their hands upon their hearts - A.E. Housman "Last Poems X"

Hearts that loved me not again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIII"

Truth in hearts that perish - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXIII"

If young hearts were not so clever - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIX"

Liquid litany of heart-delight - Margaret Houston "In the Garden"

Of the burning heart of the world on fire - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

Humming-birds cling to the honeysuckles' hearts - William D. Howells "Bereaved"

The sky dripping from his heart - Amorak Huey "We Were All Odysseus in Those Days"

Who carry beauties in their hearts - Langston Hughes "Water-Front Streets"

Then Heart grew kettle-cold - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"

The heart of the triumphing blue - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Fell grief her throbbing heart enthrals - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]

Buried deep within my heart - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Who bore with patient heart the yoke - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

The heart to register its trembling - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

They but render half the heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"

Though the heart be not attending - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"

Sweet to my dark ruined heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"

Opened the door of my heart - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"

Hearts for peace make room - Jean Ingelow "The Letter L"

Bring comfort to our sad hearts - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Clear the vexation of Time from my heart - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

The apple of copper will warm his heart - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Within the four chambers of a sparrow's heart - Mark Irwin "And"

And some one flipped a handspring in my heart - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

And stony hearts can't stand up long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Thoughts deep hidden in the inmost heart - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]

To want to patch every heart - Jordan Jace "I Want"

Frozen pulse and heart of fire - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"

A heart held back for the knife - John James "April, Andromeda"

The hearts of those very few with open ears - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Our hearts filled by the light of crashing down - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Always had a heart something like ice - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Whose couriers knocked on every heart - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"

Grow at the pace of our own hearts - Allison Eir Jenks "Exit"

Dark, except for your hearts - Allison Eir Jenks "Old Soldiers"

Light your pipe on a fasting heart - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon

Ask who shrives the heart - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

Tame in your hearths but not in my heart - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

That coils and encircles my heart - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

When my poor heart you first beguiled - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

It grieved my heart to see you sail - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

With wisdom's wiser heart - Charles Bertram Johnson "Now and Then"

Obscured by poppies, hearts, and deers - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "Last Best Niche"

And your heart is my golden coronet - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Lorgnette"

My heart against the ground - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"

In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Folding up my little dreams within my heart - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The sounding motif of my heart, the impetus and goal - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Fight the battle in my heart - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"

My heart yielded in capture - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"

Beating on the iron heart of sin - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

On the harp of my heart - James Weldon Johnson "A Passing Melody"

Prophets here to any wistful heart - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

For the heart of sea and night - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

In hunger of the heart - Lionel Johnson "Desideria"

Hearts with responding spirit - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

In the silence of our hushed hearts - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

No alien hearts may know - Lionel Johnson "Wales"

The forms my heart recalls - Annie Fellows Johnston "Voices of the Old, Old Days"

Hearts aren't toys for juggling - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"

Find the heart of the world - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Voice from the Far Away"

The commonplace expression of my heart - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Our hearts will argue hard - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"

Until my heart broke me awake - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"

With a dry face and a cloven heart - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"

Your sadness unbuttons my heart - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"

My cactus heart and kelp forest - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"

With a heart absolved and pure - Sir Nizamat Jung "V: Unity"

Bitter tribute wrong from hearts of woe - Sir Nizamat Jung "VIII: The Heart of Love"

Sound harmony to happy hearts - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

No wine to fire the captive heart - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Need for other hearts broken differently - Courtney Kampa "Ars Biologica"

Brambled path towards the forest's heart - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

The broad rivers of the heart - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"

The stone fist of his heart began to bang - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Your hearts grew sick with hope deferred - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]

All the wars she harboured in her heart - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"

My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

A heart high-sorrowful and cloyed - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Through the sad heart of Ruth - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Do not turn the current of your heart - John Keats "To Fanny"

The sunlight of hope on your heart - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

With heavy hearts and tearful eyes - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

A sad heart walks through this jubilee - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"

Your fond eyes and yearning hearts - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Her frozen heart denies - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Would revive my second heart with new legacy - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Not only our hearts that are broken - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Creation isn't for the faint of heart - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"

Deep in the wooded muscle of your heart - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

On the weary grass that grows near your heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

Let you cut your teeth on my heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

The sharp silver of a mended heart - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

So anxious in your heart - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph

Asking for cuts from your first-born heart - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"

These clouds that make my heart jump - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

Let your heart be warm and tender - "Kind to Everything" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Live in a swamp in my heart - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"

The room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

The prosecutor and defense of my own heart - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Young hearts round this new life can twine - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Disarm the heart's rebellion - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The bolts that bar his heart - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Some sudden spell Soviet doctors connected to his heart - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Without heart or history - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

A look that shoved a blade into his heart - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Save your heart from the crows - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

A jewel dead center in the heart - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

Each with a star at its heart - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"

Returning again and again to the steady heart - Ted Kooser " In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

A fragile old heart, the brown map of a life - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

No bigger than a heart - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"

Pulled over my scorched yet ever shining heart - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Scarcely rippling the heart - Ted Kooser "Tectonics"

How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses? - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Mimicking the harrowing of my heart - Jordan Kurella "This Tree Is a Eulogy"

Hearts, by other loves supplanted - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

Only my sad heart remembers - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

My heart clings to her pretty words - "Lady Violet" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

And their hearts in love were bound - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Made my heart a heaven - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

The heart of a crimson peony - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"

From my feet to the heart of the hills - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"

In the heart of the listening solitudes - Archibald Lampman "Forest Moods"

Dwelling in your changeless heart - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"

With hearts grown grey - Archibald Lampman "Song"

In some madness of the heart - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

How the heart of childhood dances - Laetitia Elizabeth Landon "Little Red Riding-Hood" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Store quintuple harvests in my heart concealed - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

Largesse to some future bolder heart - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

In our heart's great dark and solitude - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

That cunning trade in hearts contrives - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

Every agony my heart has known - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Life's Burying-Ground"

A heart that loves beyond the shallow word - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"

The heart must hold aims of an age gone by - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Why Sad To-day"

A heart of delicate super-faith - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Curves in a rush to the heart of the vast flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"

My heart yearns to know - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

If I could have put you in my heart - D.H. Lawrence "The End"

The heart from out of oblivion - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"

Whose heart is torn with parting - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"

The fibres of the heart parting - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

Breathing the frozen memory of his heart - D.H. Lawrence "Meeting Among the Mountains"

A tiny core of stillness in the heart - D.H. Lawrence "Nothing to Save"

Prefer my heart to be broken - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"

Knowing the thunder of his heart - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"

Before my heart stops beating - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"

Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

To lift the heart's dead weight of care - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

In my deep heart harbor quite unguessed - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]

Your heart is just honeycomb - Aimee Le "I'm Glad I Only Had to Be a Teenage Boy Once"

Shielding so soft a heart - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Sure of a surplus in the heart - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

A benign and beating heart - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"

With silent hearts now call - Frances Ledwidge "In September"

Forgetting old words for the heart - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

The hold in the galaxy's heart - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

Some better strings in my weak heart - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

How my heart's chords vibrate - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

An eloquence fresh from the heart - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

A heart's slapstick hiccup - Hailey Leithauser "We Few Born beneath a Bitter Star"

No friend to ease the heart's pain - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The new heart like a lamp - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

She had a parched heart - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

The seven rivers that surround the heart - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"

The heart of ice is fire waiting - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Had a fiend at heart - Amy Levy "Medea"

Had her heart been otherwise - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Will forget winter in my heart - Amy Levy "The Old Poet"

The marble walls of men's cold hearts - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Lay velvet heads to the hearts of flowers - Li Po "The Girl at Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

My heart looks back in sadness - Li Po "Picking the Lotus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Whose heart had no guile - Li Po "River Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

South winds blow my homing heart - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

Wine loosens sadness from the heart - Li Po "Why Be Jealous?" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

that plucked the jewels in my heart - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

Colder than the blood in my heart - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"

Your heart's in retrograde - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"

A poem may cut that heart to lace - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

The sins of all war-lords burn his heart - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"

With hearts like the stars - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

Honey in the hearts of gourds - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Heart of a hundred midnights - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

With her crystal wings, and her honey heart - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

Making our hearts their prey - Vachel Lindsay "We Start West for the Waterfalls"

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"

Shredded dreams tattooed into your heart - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Grasped my eager heart in my own talons - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

With a heart for any fate - H.W. Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"

Red like the wine of your heart - Amy Lowell "Crowned"

My heart is tuned to sorrow - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"

The flower of our heart - Amy Lowell "Petals"

With a rose's red heart's tide - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Left fingerprints on the inside of my heart - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Aimed for a heart of steel and stone - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

Whom our English hearts have loved - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"

An arm all nerve and a heart all fire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

And witnessing that hearts can yet aspire - Francis J. Lys "On Re-reading 'Ruth'"

Purpose at the heart of things - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

As if we don't share the same heart - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

When his heart should feel that fire - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

A lingering hope my heart yet holds - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

Chilled their hearts with his icy touch - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The grave of ruined hearts which trusted - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

A path towards its well-defended heart - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Sing your heart out at all that dark matter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

With willing hands and faithful hearts - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Folded hearts where secrets hide - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"

By thy heart's prophetic pain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring in Nazareth"

Until my lagging heart is dust - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"

Her heart's proud empire - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

Tore my heart out and hid the scar - Dorothea Mackellar "Riding Rhyme"

Built an unnamed altar in my heart - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"

On the sands of my heart - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"

True hearts in trouble - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

With steady heart and ready arm - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

The seed my heart had dared to sow - Naomi Long Madgett "Heart-Blossom"

My heart's accustomed yearning - Naomi Long Madgett "Next Spring"

Year of drought in my heart's country - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"

Until your heart can hear their silences - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

To puncture my heart with its desolate song - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

Inside the theater of her brooding, restless heart - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Into silent depths of every heart - Edwin Markham "Infinite Depths"

To strengthen rebel hearts with tears - Edwin Markham "Music"

Let the dry heart fill its cup - Edwin Markham "A Prayer"

The fading vision of the heart - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"

Your bare heart and your mended bones - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"

Hearts that yearn upon my track - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]

No boundaries bind my heart - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Ambitious to beguile your heart - George Martin "The Apple Woman"

Lies cold on the heart - George Martin "Bound to the Wheel"

Sly magician of the heart - George Martin "Ethel"

Tempest of flame in his heart - George Martin "Street Waif"

Frozen in the suburb of its heart - Herbert Woodward Martin "Kitchen Activity"

And stout hearts wince before - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Feeble hearts whose pulse is fear - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

To beat down and desolate the heart's own treasury - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Sent the heavens to the heart's abode - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But you contribute nothing from your hearts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

On a journey that had our hearts' curse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

From the burning heart of June - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

And our hearts are turned to flame - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

The clock ticks to my heart - John Masefield "On Growing Old"

Clog our hearts with dreams - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"

My heart will soon be still - John Masefield "A Song at Parting"

A wind's in the heart of me - John Masefield "A Wanderer's Song"

The guarded heart against excess of rain - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"

Change in hearts grown weary - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Proving the human heart has always ached - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

Into my heart's dark cup - Edgar Lee Masters "St. Deseret"

And fill all hearts with rare delight - D.M. Matheson "The Bard of Ayr"

Flies past with the heart of a clock - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Feeding her heart with day dreams - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Only humbled hearts may see - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

Each weary heart is folded deep - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

In mighty lusts of heart and eyes - Theodore Maynard "Pride"

The thick veil upon Heaven's heart - Theodore Maynard "A Reply"

A mighty music through the heart - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"

A holiday for happy hearts - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"

Snow that fell blindly on the heart - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

The heart must be a crucible - George Marion McClellan "Love is a Flame"

Come and grip the heart - George Marion McClellan "To Theodore"

Whose hearts were hearts of steel - Isabella McFarlane "The Death of Colonel Shaw" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]

Illuminates the manuscript of the heart - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"

A heart that can melt stones - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

My hostile heart to win - Claude McKay "The City's Love"

And drew out of his heart Eternity - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"

Crowd round this lifted heart - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"

Through the hollows of my heart - Arch Alfred McKillen "Echo"

Where from your chaliced hearts - Arch Alfred McKillen "To the Garrison at Wake"

Iron caulking the egg-shell heart - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"

With the strange chill of the silent heart - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Plans on which the heart is set - H.P. McKnight "Dreams"

Hearts all filled with plans - Frank J. Medina "Life's Reality"

In my heart I cherish memories - Frank J. Medina "Songs of Long Ago"

And ate their tiny hearts at lunch - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

The hunger of his heart found food - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

To cheer the heart whose hopes are dead - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Tameless heart in battered frame - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

Nor let leap the heart - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Hears the heart of wildness - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The heart of a whole horizon - W.S. Merwin "The Old Year"

The sky vaulted as a heart - W.S. Merwin "The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence"

Their big old hearts pounding under your wheels - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"

Not close the gates of my heart - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"

Our little wind-blown hearts - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

The key that locks your heavy heart - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"

Come to our ignorant hearts - Alice Meynell "Veni Creator"

A tragic, lonely terror grips my heart - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

All my heart became a tear - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

And be no more the warder of my heart - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: I"

But summer to your heart - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: III"

Only my heart makes answer - Edna St Vincent Millay "Journey"

My heart is bowed unto thine - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Shroud"

With the heart of Lilith - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

But summer to your heart - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

But your heart is not your mind - Wayne Miller "Mind-Body Problem"

Branded onto my heart - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"

Spins her thread from the spool of her heart - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

Thread from the spool of her heart - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

To turn the heart to bitter gall - "The Misanthrope"

And my heart a dull, flat flame - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"

If my mute heart expresses me - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

The measure of the heart's broken pulse - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"

And press your heart against the ground - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

And the heart of the east for the day is yearning - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

No union here of hearts - James Montgomery "Friends"

The darling of a thousand hearts - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Beyond the wonder of the heart to dream - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')

Perfect the portrait in my heart, and true - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]

The extent of her impoverished heart - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"

Pierces the asteroid shard of her heart - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

The buried Titan in the heart - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"

One lone heart for Summer silent grieves - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

That one's heart must be steeled against the east wind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

My heart beating a breathless requiem - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

Turn terroring towards the demon in your heart - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

A bundle of black rocks in the heart - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman

Shaped to remind me of a heart - Harryette Mullen "From Tanka Diary"

The scars that mark their hearts - Harryette Mullen "Still Waiting"

A heart beloved of the wiser gods - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"

Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

In his heart impatient - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

Winter in their Heart - Vi Khi Nao "Bird Poem"

The heart is a quiet mountain - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"

But the heart lies still - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"

Charms the heart may ever rue - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

With faithful heart all faithless play - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

Touch the pulse of my lonely heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Death's secrets in one heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Blaze the face of my heart's fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

O'er hearts whose griefs were deepest - Mary E. Nealy "Dying in the Hospital" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Anguish like the mourning heart - Francis Neilson "Absence"

The flutter of your creaseless heart - Maggie Nelson "The Beginner"

As many hats as hearts - Maggie Nelson "Vespers"

The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

But only the heart can live in it - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

With singular heart and doleful dreams - Pablo Neruda "Ars Poetica" translated by Angel Flores

A comet of countless tiny hearts - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Pierced your stone heart like a sword - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid

The voice of a somber heart - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin

And my heart split into flames - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The cold oven at the lush forest's heart - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A hollow in the heart of the bitter jungle - Pablo Neruda "Death in the World" transl. by Jack Schmitt

As in the heart of an illustrious star - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew

Wound me with ten knives in the heart - Pablo Neruda "Maternity" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The ancient cinders of a heart - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Once again the heart distills them - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Dictionary" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

January's light will consume my entire heart - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: LXVI" transl. by Rafael Campo

To fill our hearts with salt water - Pablo Neruda "Perhaps, perhaps oblivion..." transl. by Jack Schmitt

In answer to the shrouded heart - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

A crude hollow of desolate hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

With wintry hand seeks our hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The overflowing tide of hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A solitary motion of the heart - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The secret hearts of clocks - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid

Your heart burning in the purple - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The coldest summit of my heart - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XIII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Uses up his wandering heart - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

To walk inside of your shattered heart - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

To guard the hidden heart of prayer - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Starve our hearts on clay - E. Nesbit "Death"

Right to the heart of violets goes - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Our hearts would break to prove - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

On the still garden of my heart - E. Nesbit "Song"

My heart has made me orphan - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

Cold as the north wind's heart - Mari Ness "ICE"

A delicate heart beats upon the snow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

A heart too soon made discontented - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Until their hearts were locked in place - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

A heart that locked its doors and left - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Visiting Hours"

Your hybrid heart at home - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"

Woe unto that gentle heart - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Out of my stony heart has struck a tear - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

Many another whose heart holds no light - Robert Nichols "The Full Heart"

His heart is shipwrecked now - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"

The gates of my poor heart - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"

Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"

With an undivided heart I loved - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

Showed a sun within its heart - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

Are storms or sunshine in your heart? - Margaret Noodin "Crane" transl. by the author

Sail kisses to heaven or row to a heart's shore - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author

Perhaps my soul understands more than my heart can know - Margaret Noodin "I Am Undefeated" transl. by the author

Around my heart a red river of fiery rapids - Margaret Noodin "I Realize" transl. by the author

From their hearts their own songs - Margaret Noodin "What They Use" transl. by the author

Will scarcely trust my candid heart - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

At which the untroubled heart rejoices - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Nature had no miracles in her heart - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Hid in the heart of a rose - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"

Puts a stone inside your heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"

Our hearts will open like sieves - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

If one way could satisfy the infinite heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fundamentalism"

Weaves a crib for my heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "No One Thinks of Tegucigalpa"

Only when some heart lies dead - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]

The universal heart in nature's bosom beating - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]

Bring all the eloquence of your heart - Achy Obejas "Volver"

In the heart of her rushing forest - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Shaking our hearts with unaccustomed fears - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Confronts the storm with anguished heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

I followed here the heart I built for you - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Our true hearts shall never falter - "The Old Flag Alone" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Mercy that melted my heart - Old Humphrey "The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown"

Over the dark acorn of your heart - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

Across the marshlands of my heart - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"

In the tree of my heart - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"

In the heart inexplicable - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"

Because the heart narrows - Mary Oliver "Red Bird"

Not a single twinge of the heart - Mary Oliver "Storage"

More room in your heart for love - Mary Oliver "Storage"

The heart has a dungeon - Mary Oliver "Where are you?"

No one owns the hearts of birds - Mary Oliver "Winter and the Nuthatch"

Beat upon our hearts like showers of frozen hail - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Of the hearts hidden wells - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Caradori Singing"

And heart of slower beat - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Where a heart thy claim denies - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

My heart hath sealed its fountains - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

Which sever hearts from their hopes - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sadness"

And charm the heart from pain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

Inch on inch of gentle heart - Ou-yang Hsiu "[At the post house lodge]" transl. by Burton Watson

Serve to bring the burdened heart - John Oxenham "Burden-Bearers"

Kindle many a heart to equal flame - John Oxenham "Tamate"

And flood my heart with thoughts - P. "Sonnet: On Overhearing a Little Child (a Visitor) Saying 'Mamma' in the Next Room" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 24 April 1852]

A grief that links two hearts in bliss - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]

The heart's beat asserts control - Grace Paley "Night Morning"

Be quiet heart home - Grace Paley "Suddenly There's Poughkeepsie"

That clasped both our hearts - Grace Paley [untitled]

Until my heart goes out - Hannah Sanghee Park "The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night"

The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

I never said they feed my heart - Dorothy Parker "Faut de Mieux"

Make you songs of hearts denied - Dorothy Parker "I Know I Have Been Happiest"

If my heart be scarred and burned - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"

Could ease a heart like a satin gown - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Broke my brittle heart in two - Dorothy Parker "A Very Short Song"

Arranged its shade to let hearts of sunlight fall - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

These brittle bones, this unwieldy heart - Linda Pastan "Purple"

Whose memory rules my fluttering heart - Samuel D. Patterson "The Prayer of the Dying Girl" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Shut up a burnt-out heart - Karolina Pavlova "To Madame A. V. Pletneff" transl. by Paul Schmidt

Over my heart's dark shuddering - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

Torn treasure of my heart's Desire - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

That speech toward which all hearts do ache - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

With such play in their hearts - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

The bitterness of sorrow taken from out my heart - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]

With heart-pain unforgot - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Where firesides and altars govern hearts - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Came with hands and hearts o'erflowing - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Our hearts were left in Los Angeles - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"

Hearts burning with a high empyreal flame - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

My heart does a solo - Willie Perdomo "Hustler's Song"

Dozens of hot vinyl hearts - Kiki Petrosino "Lament"

Stealing hearts without design - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"

Just behind my heart - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"

Touches her where her heart should be - Meghan Phillips "The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options"

My heart a stalled engine - Patrick Phillips "Having a Fight With You"

Melt from clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

From clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Inlaid on the skies of the heart - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

The first syllable of one heart's confusion - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 4. Jar of Pens"

To wrestle with your heart - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 8"

My heart has spirit enough to listen - Po-Chu-i "On Being Sixty" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Wounded an exile's heart - Po-Chu-i "Releasing a Migrant "Yen" (Wild Goose)" (translated by Arthur Waley)

The cuckoo singing his heart out - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Who says the moon has no heart? - Po Chu'i "The Traveler's Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

In fiction's devious wilds the heart misled - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

The place your heart inhabits - Emilio Porta

Send my heart's dearest wish in my place - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"

Telling the heart of their truth - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"

Hearts up from the dust - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"

Until the vows were held by heart - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"

Dredged from the rock bottom of your heart - Lynn Powell "Feedback for the Muse"

Taking my incendiary heart - Lynn Powell "October Edge"

Her trophies now are wounded hearts - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "Chivalry at a Discount"

Acid-etched upon her heart - E.J. Pratt "Magnolia Blossoms"

Ammut snapped up their hearts and swallowed - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Eyes vast as the hearts of galaxies - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

Soft dew-drop of my heart's one flower - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"

His heart in the minstrel's hand - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

May still retrieve its heart's Eurydice - John Presland "February"

And forth my quivering heart he drew - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen

By the sorrow-struck heart - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

Learn the texture of a heart - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

Crawled along with throbbing heart - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Potomac River, U.S.A."

From the shelter of your heart - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XXIV: The Blind Ploughman"

From the heart of an opening rose - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"

To stir the deep forgotten heart - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"

The budding summer hopes our hearts too fondly cherished - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Guardian of the heart's temptations - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

And in the deeper shadowed hearts - Theodore H. Rand "The Veiled Presence"

Dream on the world's warm heart - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"

And the heart of the world is mine - Herbert Randall "Outside"

Gone still in the heart - Camille Rankine "Ways to Disappear"

A field with a stone on its heart - Dahlia Ravikovich "The Blue West" transl. by Chana Bloch

With throbbing heart, and eager pulse - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Aspiration"

To make the prisoned heart rejoice - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

But the heart does not negotiate - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

Have torn our hearts and hands asunder - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Though this widowed heart may love another - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Mock not love so deeply hearted - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Placed at the ancient heart of a temple - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

Which we cast at the young heart's devotion - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Hand over your heart - Jason Reynolds "This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill"

Pockets and heart are empty - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

The work of our hearts is dust - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

To which our tired hearts are come - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"

The heart's a dollar music box - Jordan Rice "Vanishment"

Inside your destructible heart - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Upon my heart with rapture chained - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Hold the breath still and heart pale - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

My heart like a splintered vase - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

And held my heart up like a cup - Lola Ridge "The Edge"

Fed them honey of his heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

As to the heart of a poppy seed - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Dark adventure for the heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

And his heart is fed with water - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Rose heart of many thousand mornings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

That sank a javelin in my heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Wrote on my heart with stylus of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Like a skunk that roots about the heart - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Pale ruin with a heart of fire - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"

Flowers to cut the heart - Rihaku "Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

My heart alone wakes - Rainer Maria Rilke "Evening" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Sets hard at its heart - Rainer Maria Rilke "Pieta"

Where all hearts were open wide - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

My heart to fall asleep on - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

Exile hearts that homeward ache - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Atlantic Cable"

From the door of my opened heart - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"

Happy Heart coming home from the hills - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"

And the Heart of the Sky leaned down to me - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Saxifrage"

And hear the skylarks calling to a heart that's growing old - Lloyd Roberts "The Homesteader"

Only our hearts can explain - Valencia Robin "Dear Saturday"

Frozen hearts and falling music - Edwin Arlington Robinson "London Bridge"

Something strange and wild struck my heart - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]

My heart they choose for home - James Jeffrey Roche "Three Doves"

Dreaming for the weary heart of the past - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

What flowers find heart to die - Rennell Rodd "If Any One Return"

Autumn's wind uncloses the heart of all your flowers - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"

The overflowings of an innocent heart - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"

Within the happy silence of my heart - Alice Wellington Rollins "Absent-Minded"

Our ignorant hearts to raise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"

From my full heart's supreme desires - Alice Wellington Rollins "If I Could Know, Love"

When the poor heart seizes its desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "Longing"

A heart graffitied fuchsia on the street - Sahar Romani "Sign"

the little heart of our language - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

A heart in absence wrong - Anon. "The Rosary"

The ample music of my heart - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

That seized upon my trembling heart - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"

Wins our hearts with one accord - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Day"

Heart with heart in harmony - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Day"

My heart's quiet home - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"

His heart with madness overflowing - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Firemen hacking into the heart of the blaze - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

Dance in my Heart at Dawn - Rumi "The Beloved All in All" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie

Hearts where no echo rings - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems VII: Merely Suburban"

I am one with their hearts at rest - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Let your heart alone go dreaming - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Many a ruined heart my home - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Flows through other hearts than mine - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"

The silver moonglow in the heart - George William Russell "The Master Singer"

From our hearts at the oddest knock - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

To work inside hearts - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"

An example of cliché so profuse it touched my heart - David St. John "The Park"

Polishing the mirror of your heart - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

Itinerant eyes in expatriate hearts - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Fifty with aching hearts - Carl Sandburg "Gone"

Twisted the roots under my heart - Carl Sandburg "Night Stuff"

With a dust gagging the heart - Carl Sandburg "They All Want to Play Hamlet"

A music for lonely hearts - Carl Sandburg "To Know Silence Perfectly"

Song mouths connecting with song hearts - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

And offers incense in her heart - Charles Sangster "A Living Temple"

From hearts that stay unmended - Margaret E. Sangster "From Paris to Chateau Thierry"

A moonbeam thrown across my heart - Margaret E. Sangster "Intangible"

My heart wanders with you - Margaret E. Sangster "Two Lullabies: II. Poppy Land"

When the heart's a trifle dry - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

Has put a torch to your heart - Sappho (transl. by Mary Barnard)

The heart fraught with sympathies - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"

To the heart of iron and fire - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"

Rub out wrinkles from the heart - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"

And glowing flames the hearts assail - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Clockwork hearts with crystal chips & atom beats - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"

Seeking some heart beyond our hearts - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

Dawn-dream of my heart - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"

Gives the shuddering heart no peace - Clinton Scollard "Night Song by the Sea"

In each man's heart a secret temple - Frederick George Scott "Idols"

A heart of steel to conquer - Frederick George Scott "In Via Mortis"

To thy heart's dungeons deep - Frederick George Scott "Te Judice"

Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Your proud heart disowned - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"

To high designs his heart and hands aspire - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

Believing in the weath of the unruined heart - Tim Seibles "Naive"

Never really left the Forbidden City of your heart - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"

Has hidden it in the secret heart of the Wild - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Fallen brains and hearts of brass - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"

Have dipped pen in your heart - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Locked in the silence of the heart - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"

Hug them to my eager heart of fire - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"

A second shock boiling its stone to your heart - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"

All tenants to the heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"

To the painted banquet bids my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVII"

Grounded inward in my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXII"

That the thought of hearts can mend - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIX"

The false heart's history - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIII"

No form delivers to the heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIII"

In the immenser hearts of dreaming men - Edward Shanks "Clouds"

Into hearts long empty of the sun - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Roses with their hearts of gold - Virna Sheard "Dreams"

In his heart divine unreason - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

That no God's heart is softened by our cries - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"

Let peace be in the hearts that mourn - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

Is in the heart asleep - Taras Shevchenko "Death of the Soul" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

My heart eaten out with sorrow - Taras Shevchenko "A Dream" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Each one in heart is setting snares - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Written on the heart - Taras Shevchenko "A Poem of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

In the alcoves of their hearts - Brandon Shimoda "All Souls Procession"

With single heart give praises - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

With the energy seething at the heart of an atom - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"

Our efforts to diagnose the human heart - Evie Shockley "job prescription"

Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

To bid my heart rejoice - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"

An arm of steel and a heart of gold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Weeping Cupid"

To empty the contents of your (un)troubled heart - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

See how many other hearts are burning - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

The rhythm of your own heart's disquiet - Joyce Sidman "How to Find a Poem"

Around my deep unchanging heart - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

That is when my heart thaws - Joyce Sidman "Listen for Me"

My heart waits for direction - Joyce Sidman "Song in a Strange Land"

And my heart shall catch the rhythm - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Yet still thy bloodless heart doth beat - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Old Watch"

Sighs o'er the lost solace of her heart - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"

If the window is over your heart - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

becoming one body one heart one mind one spirit - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"

Her hydrogen heart exploding - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Doesn't Become an Assassin"

My heart's only burnt match - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"

Making the heart forgetful of itself - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

That sacred freshness of the heart - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Into the black-hole heart of the galaxy - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

Her anchor of a heart reaching - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

Because thy wilful heart will not believe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"

Your heart is closed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"

My autumn heart confesses - Clark Ashton Smith "Satiety"

Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"

And from human hearts erased - Effie Smith "When a Hundred Years Have Passed"

Give strength to hearts unborn - Effie Smith "When a Hundred Years Have Passed"

My heart rumbles like thunder - Hope Anita Smith "Memory"

Over the walls of my heart - Hope Anita Smith "Sleuthing"

The fond heart faint, the red lip falter - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

But the heart can't see - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

Shall yet within my heart remain - "Song [Each gentle word thy lip imparts]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Startles the heart of the deer - "Song of Summer" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Divining the heart of the geyser - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Hearts sooner turn to stone than break - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

Beacon of my trusting heart - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"

Have one heart and Beauty breaks it - Anne Spencer "Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

My heart from hence is closed - Anne Spencer "I Have a Friend" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Holding all her buds against her heart - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

The wingless, tearless thing the heart calls strength - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

Stole the journeys of his heart - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

Because of mountains in my heart - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

I wrote your name within my heart - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"

I lost my heart along the shining places - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"

How the injured heart cannot heal - Nathan Spoon "Poem of Thankfulness"

Cast a bloom around the heart - "Spring Blossoms" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]

my heart says trust - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

Must discharge a freighted heart - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Watch your heart like a jukebox - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"

While their hearts in sorrows move - "The Star-Gemmed Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Knew each heart was only lent - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

Hearts of patience to unravel - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

A heart light as her smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Evade my heart's discernment - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Penelope"

The iron key that locks your heart - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Rivulets of the constant heart - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Close pity's heart against his woes - James Stephens "Donnelly's Orchard"

Peace to thine unforgetting heart - George Sterling "The First Food"

The heart's high memories unaware - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"

To hold by faith a heart's untested gold - George Sterling "Intimation"

That gave her heart to dust - George Sterling "A Legend of the Dove"

My heart is hungered fire - George Sterling "The New Goddess"

Lonely voices at her heart - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"

My heart is sister of ice - George Sterling "The Princess on the Headland"

Gold is on the heart's horizon - George Sterling "Reborn"

With clamors frozen at his heart - George Sterling "Remorse"

An echo in the abysses of the heart - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"

The Hydra's crimson heart - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Her haunted heart forgets - George Sterling "White Magic"

On heavens and hearts that dream - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"

A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"

Never touched his heart - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"

Knocked on my sullen heart in vain - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"

The diapason of the heart - W.W. Story "Sonnet"

In the deepest nook of my heart - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

My heart called out for some befriending face - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

Will house in my haunted heart - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"

Cry out through my desolate heart - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Whisper once into the heart of the agave - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Only the heart remains unmoved - Su Tung-p'o "Beginning of Autumn: A Poem to Send to Tzu-yu" transl. by Burton Watson

My finite heart shrinks from the infinite - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"

Consumes the glowing heart of earth - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Bright throne in her sorrowing heart - J.T.S. Sullivan "Elizabeth"

My heart is dyed a color so deep - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 44: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Who consorts with cheating hearts - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The icebergs thrilled unto their heart - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Parts of my heart are missing - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"

Their own river of beating hearts - Alison Swan "True Story"

With our hearts in brave communion - "Sweet is the Fight" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Connected to her exquisite heart - May Swenson "The Watch"

And the heart in us echoes - Algernon Swinburne "At Sea"

Hid my heart in a nest of roses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Under the roses I hid my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Where the wine's heart has burst - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

What shall my heart broken profit thee? - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Feeds his heart full of the day - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

As keen as the heart of Mars - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Nor yet September binds their hearts - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Reproving the heart that exults too loud - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Though love in your heart were brittle - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

A fire of heart untamed - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"

That pierces heart and spirit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

Wailing aloud from a heart unhealed - Algernon Swinburne "On an Old Roundel"

The little snakes that eat my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The swords in my heart for one were seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Subtle and cruel of heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The music burning at heart like wine - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

A double key which opens to the heart - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

That roll so heavily from off the heart - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"

In hearts that are too great for hope - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

Dare not tell your heart what it has suffered - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

And no more able to quiet that unruly heart - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

With trifles sacred to the heart - Carmen Sylva "A Room"

With trembling fingers seize that foolish heart - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"

Burnt to lava by your heart's own flame - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

That joy and stillness breathed into her heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The fervent adoration of the heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Your heart holds many a Romeo - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

Light laughter to ease our brimming hearts - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]

Who haunts my path like a heart's missed beat - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"

Emptied my heart with the absence of every tick - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

In heart's perspective - Rabindranath Tagore "from Stray Birds [233-237]"

With the heart's blood of the three worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"

Before the heart discarded October pomegranates - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

To calm my heart's distress - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Gave my whole heart to my lute - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

And my heart would be robbed of delight - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Stopping Wine" transl. by Burton Watson

Keeps green and fresh in his spicy heart - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Whence the heart leaps forth to life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Come with the true heart of the faithful Night - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

My heart in bitterness bled - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"

Into my heart's treasury - Sara Teasdale "The Coin"

Fire in the heart - Sara Teasdale "Dooryard Roses"

But only a hush of the heart - Sara Teasdale "It Is Not a Word"

Quiet at the heart of love - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

With beating hearts of fire - Sara Teasdale "Stars"

All the waves' wild hearts - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower

Always roaming with a hungry heart - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

Opposed free hearts - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

The common wages of their most secret heart - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

The clay first broke my heart - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Pierce thy heart to find the key - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Their epitaph is written in my heart - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"

Upon the germ of my heart's passion thrown - Maurice Thompson "Blooming" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]

Held no conversation with my heart - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"

Say not that our hearts are cold - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIII. The Return"

When brave hearts bleed and faint ones break - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Afflict this alienated heart - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

To hide a heart of common clay - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

You plant the pain in my heart - John Todhunter "An Irish Love Song"

Light is dead within my heart - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

With a heart of furious fancies - "Tom o' Bedlam"

A nail to the heart - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Flesh and Blood"

Rising on the waters of my heart - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"

Rips the heart out of sky - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"

Where heart indulges mind - Edwin Torres "Territory"

My heart a fist of twine - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"

Irised with pallors of an opal's heart - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"

I laid my heart on a stone - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"

Carry decades of lockets shaped like metal hearts - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Hearts alert to the rhythm of clouds - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

Lack the answer of one heart - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"

The musing heart of memories - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

On which affection's heart may live - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"

Our hearts with sadder pulses beat - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"

Making the green hearts flutter - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"

A blister on my heart - Natasha Trethewey "Monument"

Once, you handed me half a heart - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Their hot colors will re-warm your heart - Tu Fu "The Poet and the Flood" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

That we dally with hearts till their treasures are ours - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

With the blade of nostalgia in your hearts - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

Fields where my happy heart had rest - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

And my heart is the empty nest - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

A future astonished heart - Julia Uceda "2976"

That leaping center is a tuned heart - Leah Umansky "The Ambassadors -- Part 5" [Poetry March 2016]

Tired of shepherding this heart - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

To the shrine of your heart - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

As the leaping heart meets heart - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"

Pressed new courage in my heart - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

With anxious heart and wondering ear - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"

The tiny wild knot of a heart - John Updike "Bird Caught in My Deer Netting"

Sell your heart off piece by piece - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The flower of the heart's ideal - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"

Lying for warmth against my heart - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"

By their echo in my heart - Henry van Dyke "The Echo in the Heart"

Wakes an echo in my heart - Henry van Dyke "The Echo in the Heart"

Reflected in the crystal of the heart - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

Bidding the heart of man to wait - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

Which proves a curare for the heart - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Heart hurtling toward its final career - Emily van Kley "Weight Training"

The vortex is her heart - Suzanne Vega "Fool's Complaint"

Opens one's heart to the law - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

My heart was eaten by corroding rust - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours V" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

My heart in life's winter - Jones Very "The Winter Bird"

Let them rise from the heart's tomb - Lydia L.A. Very "Memory" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

That in my heart has taken root - Francois Villon "Arbor Amoris" transl. by Andrew Lang

To meet another's dark heart - Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven "Appalling Heart"

In the museum of the heart - Ocean Vuong "Homewrecker"

Sing of joy to hearts now breaking - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]

Grew in my heart to its full fruition - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]

Wherever the heart hesitates - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XV"

The heart puts love above it all - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"

Have bent my heart to their decree - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "Faith" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

My heart yield almost to despair - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "Faith" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

Thy soldier hand and heart at rest - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Youth"

Deep in the heart's confines - Charles William Wallace "The Human Heart"

Wrought of gold from my heart riven - Charles William Wallace "The Nightmare"

Leave the heart an unlit sea - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

As night begins in the heart of the lilies - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"

Pledged his soul and heart and hand - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"

August's panting heart of fire - William Watson "Autumn"

Her gallant hearts were numbered - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]

Our hearts full of questions - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"

To make the journey to the heart - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"

The charm that bound my wild heart here - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

A heart sewn silent - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"

Traveling the heart's way, alone, unsure - John Moncure Wettarau "[For Catherine, someday]"

Until the time to mingle with true hearts - John Moncure Wettarau "For Coyote"

Mozart's soprano stitches the heart together - John Moncure Wettarau "Wally's Poem"

I send my heart across the years to you - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

The heart of wonder in familiar things - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

To our hearts and thoughts cling fast - Edith Wharton "June and December"

Within a single pulsing of the quick heart - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

The hushed and the hurrying heart - John Hall Wheelock "Blind Players"

Took it back into my heart - John Hall Wheelock "The Buried Dream"

The triumphant heart and the defeated - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Our meeting hearts pierced - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

The tireless and eternal Heart - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

Touched to love this heart - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

Other hearts beyond the dawn - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

Yet have I known your heart - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"

This brief and scornful heart - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Horizon beyond the heart you know - Renia White "off the shore of oneself as in ..."

To my bare-stript heart - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

The hearts of all the ranging seas - Helen Hay Whitney "Does the Pearl Know?"

A false love and a dismantled heart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"

With frozen heart and tearless eyes - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"

Upon the altar of my heart's despair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"

Yielded her heart's sweet strife - Helen Hay Whitney "The Love of the Rose"

Leave the beaches of my heart - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

The roses of my heart shall bloom - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"

My heart must wake at dawn - Helen Hay Whitney "To-Morrow"

The gorgeous blossoms of the garden's tropic heart - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The poise of heart and mind - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

And all the windows of my heart - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Each crime which can corrupt and spoil the heart - "The Whore"

Pulse of my heart's life - Margaret Widdemer "The Forgotten Soul"

Core of my heart's heart - Margaret Widdemer "The Forgotten Soul"

Fire of my heart's grief - Margaret Widdemer "The Forgotten Soul"

Never start to hide your heart - Margaret Widdemer "If You Should Tire of Loving Me"

Hard in his heart's thought - "Wife's Lament" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone

My heart has struggled with its awful grief - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"

Converse with their hearts - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"

Lips of flame and heart of stone - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Matin"

Break the crystal of a poet's heart - Oscar Wilde "On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters"

With heart prepared to find the contrast sweet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]

Draws a charm that leads the heart - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Whose melody the heart obeys - Helen Maria Williams "Sonnet, To Mrs. Bates"

Opening hearts of lilac - William Carlos Williams "April"

Open my heart enough - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"

A heart from whence no guile shall rise - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

That touch the heart like tears - Charlotte Wilson "Evening"

One single heart undone - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

From the night and heart of me - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"

The solar system's burning heart - Allan Wolf "The Sun: A Solar Sunnet, er, Sonnet"

That first warm rain that melts the heart of earth - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"

A part of greater beauties than inform your heart - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"

Done with wearing gold words upon my heart - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"

Now in the hush of the heart - Humbert Wolfe "The Drift of the Lute"

The heart of Hyacinth laments the daylight - Humbert Wolfe "Medusa"

Bits of dream fluff and heart dust - Janet S. Wong "Breath"

To dry out her heart - Janet S. Wong "Cobra"

Have hung upon the beatings of my heart - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

In the fond illusion of my heart - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"

Farewell the heart that lives alone - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"

A wisdom fitted to the needs of hearts at leisure - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"

My heart's best treasure - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"

The heart of the world lies open - Charles Wright "The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away"

What darkness snips at our hearts - Charles Wright "History Is a Burning Chariot"

Two wounds in my upper arm and in my heart - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"

Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

My heart is sad and will not dance - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Take this error from your hearts - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

His heart unsatisfied - W.B. Yeats "Ego Dominus Tuus"

Empty your heart - W.B. Yeats "The Hosting of the Sidhe"

A meteor of the burning heart - William Butler Yeats "The Indian to his Love"

In the deep heart's core - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Hearts of wind-blown flame - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"

In the deeps of my heart - W.B. Yeats "The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart"

Hid in the heart of love - W.B. Yeats "The Pity of Love"

Fed the heart on fantasies - W.B. Yeats "VI - The Stare's Nest By My Window"

To my offended heart - W.B. Yeats "Young Man’s Song"

Fill my heart with mud - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

To kneel before the heart - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

No compass but the heart - Jane Yolen "Autumn Song of the Goose"

My heart wears you like curtains - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

Even though this is my second heart - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

Coming home with my new heart - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

The heart of a scarecrow isn't symmetrical - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

To find out if my heart is unruined - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

And the jackal-headed god to weigh my heart - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

What one is stitching is a human heart - Dean Young "Scarecrow on Fire"

The heart's a useless sliver in a glacier - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

In bitter London's heart of stone - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"

Whose heart most tender stars illume - Francis Brett Young "The Rain-Bird"

Till the heart dare not move - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

To the hollow heart of the storm - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

Spinning through my silent heart - Zheng Min "The Beauty of Life: Suffering*Struggle*Endurance" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Bite right through the heart's restraints - Zheng Min "A False Image" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Encircle the borders to our hearts - Zheng Min "Golden Sheaves of Rice" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

To bolster the heart that still bleeds - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

The molten heart of motherhood - Rachel Zucker "Paying Down the Debt: Happiness"

A score of hearts will show - Anon. [Untitled]

The test of the heart is trouble - Anon. [Untitled]


Barren-hearted and untrue - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"


The dance of the big-hearted dog - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"


Broken Heart.


Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"


The century's fiery-hearted bloom - Edward Dowden "Helena"


In the flame-heart's shade - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"


Bade adieu to each golden-hearted queen - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]


No purple vein from the mellow grape-heart bursting - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]


Half-hearted in nothing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"

Would travel half-heartedly through the air - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa


Heartache.


A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"


Heartbeat.


Our hearts' blood had bought her - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Write these pages with heart's blood - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Heard her heart's blood drip - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"


Heartbreak.


That cheerful string of heartburn - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"


Murmuring laughter and heart-easing tears - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"


Added a mint leaf now and then to hearten the broth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"

That has no song at all to hearten it - James Stephens "The Bare Trees"


Hangs in the air like the start of heartfelt applause - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"


And all my heart-flowers withered - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"


The heart-haunted home of the ever-faithful - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson


Heartless.


Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"


A sunny silence makes heart-music - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"


And many a heart-perplexing opposite - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]


Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"


Some heartsick caustic titan - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Raising Hell"


Heart-Strings.


heart-thawed for a new round of reckonings - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"


Heart-tossed shadows in them lie - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]


In the Kingdom of the Hollow-at-Heart - Charles Wright "No Angel"


The fruits of hollow-heartedness - Alexander Pushkin "[I've overlived aspirings]" transl. by John Pollen


Ever tearless, iron-hearted - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"


Radiance showers from the jewel-heart of sleep - George William Russell "Alter Ego"


An opal-hearted country - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"


Visions leave us silent-hearted - Lennox Amott "Bright Scenes Must All Depart"


Orange is the single-hearted color - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"


Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"


Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

To wake the weary-hearted - Willa Cather "Going Home"


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