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"

Across the silent places of your heart - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LIV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

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"

The mourning heart seeks least - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]

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

Wild hearts with many a thought were stung - Aion "The Priest's Burial" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

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]"

Let my heart blossom in journeying - Charles Ashleigh "Once More--The Road" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]

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]

Call the hearts whose blithe blood billows - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

Fetched a groan from the heart of the king of kings - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

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"

Bind your heart lest it find secrets out - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

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"

Its shadow leaned heavily upon his heart - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Blind"

Whose heart was a flagon of ashes - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Meeting"

Words I have stolen from your heart - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Poet to His Love"

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"

The stone filled ravines of the rich man's heart - Paul Cameron Brown "The Jolly Tupper"

Purge my heart with Heaven's healing dew - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"

My hurt heart there on the breast of Infinity - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"

All of my tired heart's yearning - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"

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"

Binding up their hearts away from breaking - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

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"

A purse well filled and a heart well tried - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Woman's Shortcomings" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]

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"

The foot-tracked mud of my heart - Witter Bynner "The South" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]

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]

Whose aching cries trouble the heart to tears - Ralph Chaplin "Distances"

Within a restless heart I hold a hurricane - Ralph Chaplin "The Warrior Wind"

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"

Two hearts with single hope - G.K. Chesterton "A Dedication to E.C.B."

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"

With careless hearts quite unheeding - Walter Crane "A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden"

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"

That falls upon the heart like blight - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

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"

When all the bravest hearts in anguish cried - Geoffrey Dearmer "Revelation"

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

Steal with a deep supplication to the heart - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

To a heart that vibrates ever in sweet unison - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

That bear the balance of the heart to Virtue's side - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

Whose burden weighs the buoyant heart to earth - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

The heart with pleasure overflowing - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

How the tones wind round the heart - Delta "The Sycamine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCI, v.LXV, Mar. 1849]

The silence to my heart replied - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Ere passion let the heart astray - Delta "A Vision of the World" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXV, v.LIV, Sept. 1843]

The human heart is but a riddle to be read - Delta "A Vision of the World" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXV, v.LIV, Sept. 1843]

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"

To raise contending passions in the heart - "The Druriad" [1798]

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)

Let me dream only with my heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dream"

The emptying chambers of his heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "Endurance"

The waters hold all heaven within their heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

Tread with sleep filled hearts on drowsy feet - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

Burning multitudes pour through my heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"

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"

Pouring the sunshine of their hearts - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Little Children" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]

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

But alter not one heart pulse beating - Mrs. Catharine H.W. Esling "Thine--Only Thine" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]

That are twined around the inmost heart - Mrs. Catharine H.W. Esling "Thine--Only Thine" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]

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"

The unpitying heart of him who spurns all laws - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Casting forth all rancour from thy heart - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Such as greatly must affect your inmost heart - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

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"

My heart a silver pool of melody - Beulah Field "Inspiration"

Planting stones within my heart - Beulah Field "Needles and Pins"

Bound my heart with singing days - Beulah Field "Rainbow"

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"

Interlace yourselves tightly over my heart - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

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

A mute blue stillness clutches at my heart - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"

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

Far night gathers round the breaking heart of day - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

To our hopes and hearts that falter - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"

The honey of the lips betrays the honey of the heart - Robin Flower "The Exile (18th Century)"

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

Hearts instead of spice are made an offering and a sacrifice - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"

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"

An eagle's talon lodged inside my heart - Nikita Gill "Hekate: The Grief Abated as I Grew Older"

Held together by the hearts of stars - Nikita Gill "Hekate: I Breathed in the Cold Deeply"

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]

In hearts there linger yet ashes of roses - Elaine Goodale "Ashes of Roses" [St. Nicholas v.V no.2, Dec. 1877]

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!"

Scalding my heart with shame - Robert Graves "Reproach"

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"

Yet gave the heart one final thrill - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

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

And the cold wind that warms itself in my heart - Ben Hecht "The Poet Sings to the World" [The Little Review, Aug. 1916, v.3, no.5]

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"

Brother's heart his very kin disown - Henry J. Horn "Byron: To His Accusers"

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"

Bamboo glistening at heart with frost - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-chia" transl. by David Hinton

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"

Hearts that are anchored side by side - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"

Smiles flash from hearts in sorrow set - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"

Reign in hearts they never strove to gain - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"

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"

Lift your heart up out of Acheron - T.M. Kettle "Ballad Autumnal l'Envoi"

When hearts are sere and pithless - T.M. Kettle "To Young Ireland (Written in 1899)"

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"

Strong heart with triple armour bound - Rudyard Kipling "A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406)"

A single tree that breaks her heart in the cold - Rudyard Kipling "A Carol"

Balm and oil for weary hearts all cut and bruised with wrong - Rudyard Kipling "Cold Iron"

Sold his heart to the old Black Art - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"

Loaning our hearts for a bribe - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Sons"

Buried my heart in a ferny hill - Rudyard Kipling "A Three-Part Song"

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"

Sometimes my idle heart would roam - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"

Sometimes my idle heart would fly - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"

Give to our aching hearts some little trust - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

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"

To lighten hearts beneath this present curse - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VII. Apology"

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]

And streams rinse my wanderer's heart clean - Li Po "Listening to a Monk's Ch'in Depths" transl. by David Hinton

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"

Through my heart's dark world returning - W.D. Lighthall "O Donna di Virtu!"

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"

No heart returned my lonely sighs - Elizabeth Lyon Linsley "Lines to an Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

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

The countenance of the heart is made better - Nancy Luce "No Comfort"

To take away their heart of stone - Nancy Luce "No Comfort"

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"

Hot-house deep in the forest's heart - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Hot-House" transl. by Bernard Miall

Forth from my slumbering heart exhale - Maurice Maeterlinck "Prayer" transl. by Bernard Miall

Find in my heart their final tomb - Maurice Maeterlinck "Temptations" transl. by Bernard Miall

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]

Exile, tattered heart all scattered away - Meng Chiao "Laments of the Gorges 3" transl. by David Hinton

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"

Around this poor half-frozen heart - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."

For trapping hearts each feature set - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."

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"

My heart, carven with delicate dreams - Sarojini Naidu "Alabaster"

A joy on the heart of a sorrow - Sarojini Naidu "Autumn Song"

Calling to my heart in the voice of the wind - Sarojini Naidu "Autumn Song"

The shrines I have raised in the clefts of my heart - Sarojini Naidu "My Dead Dream"

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"

The heart that beats in a bosom of fire - W.H. Rhodes "The Avitor" [sic]

Your hearts be modeled on the plummet's line - W.H. Rhodes "Masonry"

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"

Hearts, torn from light's cheering ray - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

To prompt, direct, and steel the heart to fear - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

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"

Will hearts for words be still? - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

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"

One destined for your heart and hand - "The Seaside Sibyl"

With heart and purse as light as cork - "The Seaside Sibyl"

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"

Sent up the heart's o'erboiling flood - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]

How wild my heart's delighted beat - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

This heart's unshaken faith attest - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

Each vow the heart could once supply - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

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"

My heart is burning to be one of those - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

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"

Trod the shore with girded heart - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"

That poured its sunlight o'er the heart - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"

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]

Well-springs of joy in a desolate heart - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]

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"

For solitude to steal within my heart - Alfred B. Street "White Creek" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

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"

From the Tyrrhene foam to the rent heart of Rome - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Song of Italy"

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]

The wintry winds of life on barren hearts to blow - J. Bayard Taylor "An Hour" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.2, Feb. 1848]

From the shining heart of the mounting flame - J. Bayard Taylor "The Voice of the Fire" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

Treasonable heart and perverse words - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta X: The Mirror-Cases II"

Within the gates of the hushed heart - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XX: The Hidden Reverie"

Surprise the heart with their mysterious horoscopes - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXVI: Divination"

Crazed hearts that know not your desire - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XL: Transition"

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"

My heart is crowded full of foolish thoughts - Sara Teasdale "A November Night"

Quiet at the heart of love - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

With beating hearts of fire - Sara Teasdale "Stars"

My heart is crying in the cold - Sara Teasdale "A Winter Night"

My heart that walked with bitterness - Sara Teasdale "Wood Song"

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"

My heart was true to the North and spring-time - Edith M. Thomas "Robin's Return" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.8, June 1886]

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"

Lifted high in hope and heart above the glen - John Tomlin "Isola" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

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"

My heart is cold beneath thy glance - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

Once, you handed me half a heart - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

My mind weighs more than my heart can carry - John Trudell "Baby What's Happening"

Your magic gave wings to my heart - John Trudell "Bringing Back the Time"

Hearts dancing in magic no one understands - John Trudell "Heart Taker/Owl Dance"

For things their hearts never understood - John Trudell "I Went So Willingly/49"

My heart was racing through the generations - John Trudell "Living in Reality/Oklahoma Song"

With jail break in our hearts - John Trudell "Rockin' the Rez"

Faint voice at disaster's heart - Tu Fu "The Musk Deer" transl. by David Hinton

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]

My lone boat moored to a homesick heart - Tu Fu "Reflections in Autumn" transl. by David Hinton

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"

March on into the open heart of Man - Rudolph Valentino "Co-operation"

Within whose chalice lies the heart - Rudolph Valentino "Heart Flower"

But take another's accusations to his heart - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"

What once was woven 'round my heart - Rudolph Valentino "Shadows"

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"

Hearts gnawn of the sateless tooth - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle

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"

With fire alive in heart and brain - Mary Alice Walton "Waiting, Ever Waiting"

In a thousand seething waves, there's no trace of a heart - Wang An-Shih "East Ridge" transl. by David Hinton

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"

Nor wine nor beer his heart can cheer - "Who Rolled the Powder In?" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXII, Dec. 1850, v.LXVIII]

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"

A stubborn heart shall fare ill - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 3" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

And turned aside the hearts of kings - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 8" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Gathered together in the hardness of their hearts - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 16" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Of three things my heart was afraid - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 26" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

As a token of the changing of the heart - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 37" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Will set his heart upon turning of furrows - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 38" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Troubled in the vision of his heart - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 40" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

The heart will be astonished at the raining - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 43" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

And in singleness of heart seek - "The Wisdom of Solomon 1" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

A true overseer of his heart - "The Wisdom of Solomon 1" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

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

From earth's deep heart o'ercharged - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Spring Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

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.


In sackcloth I sit, with the desolate-hearted - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]


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"


I have heart-fire and singing to give - Sara Teasdale "Joy"


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]


The heart-shaking jests of Decay - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"


Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"


Went forth harass'd and heartsick - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]

Some heartsick caustic titan - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Raising Hell"


Heart-Strings.


Many burning hours on the heart-sweet tide - George William Russell aka A.E. "Remembrance"


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"

Sweetheart.


Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

To wake the weary-hearted - Willa Cather "Going Home"


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