Potential Titles: Truth
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Has a surplus of truths - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
How dim the dawn of truth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
If ancient fame the truth unfold - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Unrivalled in those halcyon days of truth - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"
Like words, like truth, like blood - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
Imbibes a tone of nature-nurtured truth - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"
Slaves to our own false truths - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Unravel the truth of you - Atticus "Magic in Youth"
Not alone in your truths - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Each petal a shower of instant truths - Mary Jo Bang "Belle Vue"
Sewn tighter than truth - Mary Jo Bang "Time Speeds, Said Louise, When a Fever Rises"
Lingered over old threads of truth - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Truth's eagle glance - Cora C. Bass "Chill Not the Heart that Trusts Thee"
The wide-sweeping meadows of truth - Cora C. Bass "The Future"
Upon the altar stone of truth - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Who tread the path of truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
A significance equivalent to truth - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
And with blunt truth acquaints us - Robert Blair "The Grave"
That delusion known as truth - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"
Herein lies the hard pentagonal truth - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Like all terrible truths - William Brewer "Overdose Psalm"
Faint before the truth - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
Before me truth can stand alone - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
I sold my early truth - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
By the truth in me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Hope within thee deeper than thy truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Well has Nature kept the truth - William Cullen Bryant "The Rivulet"
Flee the eye of Truth - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"
Those who hate the name of truth - Michelangelo Buonarroti "III. To Pope Julius II" transl. by John Addington Symonds
To mine a deep mountain of truth - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
If one arise to tell this truth - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
As if pain teaches truth - Rafael Campo "California"
Inexorable truth with its cold shadow - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall
So Folly mocks at truth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Exploring all the boundaries of Truth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
By the light of unvarnish'd truth - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Soaked in rays of truth of stories - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
The bitter truth about your deeds - May Chong "Catering"
Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
who knew the truth but didn't always choose it - Lucille Clifton "lee"
Elaborate truth from fallacy - Arthur Hugh Clough "Love and Reason"
But change them into truth - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"
By the truth unsaid and the blessing gone - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"
Truth is the widest embrace - Leonard Cohen "Jan 15, 2007 Sicily Cafe"
Soothing was not truth's goal - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
And closing my heart to truth - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"
Why do I shrink to own the bitter truth? - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Time's judgment winnowing for Truth - Benjamin Copeland "Fame"
Time would have brought him deeper truth - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Stones of Truth among your dreaming - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"
Hold truth like a curtain - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"
Doubted truth in blue - Nathalia Crane "The Vestal"
Or is the truth bitter as eaten fire? - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Jests that swim the depths of truth - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
The truth of this tale to endorse - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Less envenomed than the mouth of Truth - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Which truth and honor gild not - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
The dry brush set aflame by your truth - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Shows the power of luminous Truth to kill - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Pursuing my own version of the truth - Toi Derricotte "Burial Sites [excerpt]"
The damage the truth was meant to do - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
Smashed by the betrayal of truth - Mustafa Khelil Dewran "Let's Migrate, Darling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
An urn spilling truth - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Red-Shouldered Hawk, the Raven"
Not with flatteries, but truths - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Shall starve at last for truth - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"
Words of wonder and words of truth - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Home is a truth stranger than fiction - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
The conscious cheek of truth - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Sunlight on a truth laid bare - Parke Farley "Patriots: On the '7:50'"
A studied and digested truth - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Along the thorny track of truth - Arthur M. Forrester "Father Tom Malone"
Truth is a leviathan - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
To that extent will know the truth - W.A. Frisbie "A Fore Word [The Pirate Frog, and Other Tales]"
you'd speak only truths for six hours afterwards - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
A speck of sand in the hourglass of truth - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"
The truth of life before him laid - Charles Gibson "Sonnets III"
To alter a foretelling's truth - Nikita Gill "Metis, the Forgotten King Maker"
That lies are often truth-shaped - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"
Some truths that only darkness knows - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: IX. Questions"
I mourn o'er my perished faith and truth - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
For a word from the lips of Truth - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
The truth with its eyes staring back at me - Joy Harjo "Running"
Let the sunlight of truth ever flash from his eye - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Truth deciphered from life's scroll - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
Descended from truth-eaters - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches"
Has echoed down the ages as truth - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Close their ears to the truth - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
If he could but have probed the truth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
The tactless truth of the picture jarred - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
And Truth walk down the sounding aisles - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Wells where Truth in secret lay - William D. Howells "A Poet"
Until the truth saunters in - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"
Altar where all truth is dispensed - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
These truths like dark snuff - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"
Truth, rising from the bottom of her well - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
At a gate of truth in myth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
And truth's perpetual lamp forbid to wane - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"
Whispered the runes of Truth - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Chase the truth of hummingbirds - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Credited the truth of the promises that fool'd me - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"
To show a disregard for truth - Henry S. Leigh "Crooked Answers No. 1--Vere de Vere"
Whose truths are bloated toads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"
Could tell the truth of the future - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
The bitter blows of truth - Amy Lowell "The End"
Seed of beauty in a ground of truth - Amy Lowell "The Promise of the Morning Star"
Whichever box the truth be stowed in - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Who wrought in the dark mines of Truth - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"
The apple we bit for truth - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
Can lend enchantment to the truth - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Youth"
An illusion is truth untouched of pain - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
The deeper depths of truth - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"
Faint touches of the Final Truth - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Hot, unclouded, copper day of truth - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
Measure chance against truth - Herbert Woodward Martin "Five Finger Exercise"
Saw truth like a perfect crystal - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
To build a ship of truth - John Masefield "Truth"
The truths concealed from pedants' eyes - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
Truths spun at dusk - Shara McCallum "The Border"
Tell the truth and sow the seeds of songs - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Of an aspect sisterly with Truth - George Meredith "Time and Sentiment"
As but an April truth - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Embrace this, the Cup of Truth, and drink - Andy Miller "Diana"
Who butcher Peace and barter Truth - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
Bears witness to the veiled truth of myth - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"
Souls mad for truth have lit from peak to peak - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Truth is no Apollo - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"
Reaches toward undying truths - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"
That truth may thunder between shadows - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans
The economy of sublime truths - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly
With the ardent patience of truth - Pablo Neruda "The Sea and the Love of Quevado" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Without putting an end to truth - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
In the truth of everlasting day - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
While still this truth seemed strange - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
Ignoring the truth of our fate - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Inky-garmented, truth-dead - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"
Was young as truth is - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Had proclaimed a fragment of a truth - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Ten enemies for every truth - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"
Unfolded into the hard truths - Sharon Olds "Voices"
In a country so famous for speaking the truth - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"
Severing thus the truth from trope - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Prologue"
The first gleam of Truth's morning - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Play in truth's eternal sunbeams - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
The little words of truth - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
In younger truth is traced - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
A truth more difficult to touch - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"
Thought the truth would be a falcon - Carl Phillips "The Raft"
The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Telling the heart of their truth - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"
Truth approaches us on flaming wings - John Presland "The Deluge"
Amid the wrecks of truth - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
My aching spirit to the yoke of truth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
But rather truth for love's own sake - Theodore H. Rand "Conduct"
To attempt truth's goal - Theodore H. Rand "To W."
A pleasanter face than is worn by the truth - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Uncommon and agile as truth - Adrienne Rich "For This"
The truth of briars - Adrienne Rich "Fox"
Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Censored lies that mimic truth - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
The only truth in all our perjured composition - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Truth isn't going anywhere - Sahar Romani "Sign"
The freedom of the truth-strong - John Jerome Rooney "Mississippi"
But leave the truth untested - Christina Rossetti "Winter: My Secret"
Stray gleams of love and truth - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
I'm scared of telling the truth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
A truth that is builded on doubt - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"
The web that we call truth - D.L. Sayers "Sympathy"
From truth's own glass of fire - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Truth beyond the authorized & ancient - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Know the truth of your corruption - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Peel back the mask of truth - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
A truth unbearable without this stranger's mask - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
What tongue shall sing this truth? - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Lifted her past midnight into truth - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
May I for my own self song's truth reckon - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Hidden behind simple truth - Alexandra Seidel "Three Visions Seen from Upside-Down"
Truth's a minion of the mind - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"
Truth is the raw material of wisdom - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Truth lays bare the broken bone - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Old men of less truth than tongue - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVII"
Forced to break a twofold truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"
Swears that she is made of truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"
Before the truth of a portent - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
In truth or fable consecrates - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Strange truths in undiscovered lands - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Transitory doorways unto the Truth - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The tangle of truths through which we must weave - Joyce Sidman "Teacher"
The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
As eagles' wings in the quest of Truth - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
Truth's rich and deathless blue - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"
Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"
Only known to souls of truth - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Endure the light which is the truth - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Still unconcerned with truth - Wallace Stevens "Sonnet [Lo, even as I passed beside the booth]"
The truth hid in a well - M. Letitia Stockett "Truth in a Well"
That would trample truth down in the dust - Arthur Stringer "The Children"
Afraid of the wind, afraid of the truth - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"
The ruin in telling the truth - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Love which promised truth - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
From the depth of truth - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
Camouflaged bombers on the ground floor of truth - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Now when the bitter truth is learned - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
One-sided skins of truth - Dylan Thomas "Our eunuch dreams"
The bitter old and wrinkled truth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
But the mirror is not the truth - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
And truth from truth full circle run - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
Wrenched off the hinges from the joints of truth - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Even truth and beauty vanished - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Free Pandora and infectious truths - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Displayed as truth, a weapon, a warning - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
I led to the altar of truth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
The changing sentences and truths of being - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"
Only so much space for the truth - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
Making a story from some pieces of truth - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Her thin, uncontradictable truth - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"
Truth rides upon us - Margaret Walker "Delta"
The cleansing breath of many molten truths - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"
Wept the truth in burning tears - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
The tiny orbs of our own truth - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Arcs"
Truth has its own tough memory - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"
His trophies bright are truth and light - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Nor bitter irony a truth foreshows - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Stands face to face with bitter Truth - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
Must learn the taste of truth - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
Blessed with truth and new delight - Richard Wilbur "June Light"
For the bird was Truth - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"
The praises sold at truth's expense - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Simple truth his utmost skill - Sir Henry Wotton "The Happy Life"
Your truths, our truths, human truths - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
And tasted bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Childhood's dream of changeless truth - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Truth and fiction taking turns - Jenny Xie "Square Cells"
Behind the truth are other truths - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Discoverers of forgotten truth - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"
Truth is now her painted toy - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
Shuts out the sunshine of truth - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"
Our knees tell truths - Javier Zamora "On a Dirt Road outside Oaxaca"
That never aches when I tell the truth - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
Even then slipshod with the truth - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Truth becomes a tasty bait - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Teach us the hard-truths and hurt - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
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Has a surplus of truths - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
How dim the dawn of truth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
If ancient fame the truth unfold - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Unrivalled in those halcyon days of truth - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"
Like words, like truth, like blood - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
Imbibes a tone of nature-nurtured truth - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"
Slaves to our own false truths - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Unravel the truth of you - Atticus "Magic in Youth"
Not alone in your truths - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Each petal a shower of instant truths - Mary Jo Bang "Belle Vue"
Sewn tighter than truth - Mary Jo Bang "Time Speeds, Said Louise, When a Fever Rises"
Lingered over old threads of truth - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Truth's eagle glance - Cora C. Bass "Chill Not the Heart that Trusts Thee"
The wide-sweeping meadows of truth - Cora C. Bass "The Future"
Upon the altar stone of truth - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Who tread the path of truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
A significance equivalent to truth - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
And with blunt truth acquaints us - Robert Blair "The Grave"
That delusion known as truth - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"
Herein lies the hard pentagonal truth - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Like all terrible truths - William Brewer "Overdose Psalm"
Faint before the truth - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
Before me truth can stand alone - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
I sold my early truth - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
By the truth in me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Hope within thee deeper than thy truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Well has Nature kept the truth - William Cullen Bryant "The Rivulet"
Flee the eye of Truth - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"
Those who hate the name of truth - Michelangelo Buonarroti "III. To Pope Julius II" transl. by John Addington Symonds
To mine a deep mountain of truth - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
If one arise to tell this truth - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
As if pain teaches truth - Rafael Campo "California"
Inexorable truth with its cold shadow - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall
So Folly mocks at truth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Exploring all the boundaries of Truth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
By the light of unvarnish'd truth - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Soaked in rays of truth of stories - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
The bitter truth about your deeds - May Chong "Catering"
Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
who knew the truth but didn't always choose it - Lucille Clifton "lee"
Elaborate truth from fallacy - Arthur Hugh Clough "Love and Reason"
But change them into truth - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"
By the truth unsaid and the blessing gone - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"
Truth is the widest embrace - Leonard Cohen "Jan 15, 2007 Sicily Cafe"
Soothing was not truth's goal - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
And closing my heart to truth - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"
Why do I shrink to own the bitter truth? - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Time's judgment winnowing for Truth - Benjamin Copeland "Fame"
Time would have brought him deeper truth - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Stones of Truth among your dreaming - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"
Hold truth like a curtain - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"
Doubted truth in blue - Nathalia Crane "The Vestal"
Or is the truth bitter as eaten fire? - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Jests that swim the depths of truth - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
The truth of this tale to endorse - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Less envenomed than the mouth of Truth - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Which truth and honor gild not - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
The dry brush set aflame by your truth - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Shows the power of luminous Truth to kill - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Pursuing my own version of the truth - Toi Derricotte "Burial Sites [excerpt]"
The damage the truth was meant to do - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
Smashed by the betrayal of truth - Mustafa Khelil Dewran "Let's Migrate, Darling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
An urn spilling truth - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Red-Shouldered Hawk, the Raven"
Not with flatteries, but truths - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Shall starve at last for truth - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"
Words of wonder and words of truth - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Home is a truth stranger than fiction - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
The conscious cheek of truth - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Sunlight on a truth laid bare - Parke Farley "Patriots: On the '7:50'"
A studied and digested truth - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Along the thorny track of truth - Arthur M. Forrester "Father Tom Malone"
Truth is a leviathan - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
To that extent will know the truth - W.A. Frisbie "A Fore Word [The Pirate Frog, and Other Tales]"
you'd speak only truths for six hours afterwards - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
A speck of sand in the hourglass of truth - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"
The truth of life before him laid - Charles Gibson "Sonnets III"
To alter a foretelling's truth - Nikita Gill "Metis, the Forgotten King Maker"
That lies are often truth-shaped - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"
Some truths that only darkness knows - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: IX. Questions"
I mourn o'er my perished faith and truth - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
For a word from the lips of Truth - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
The truth with its eyes staring back at me - Joy Harjo "Running"
Let the sunlight of truth ever flash from his eye - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Truth deciphered from life's scroll - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
Descended from truth-eaters - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches"
Has echoed down the ages as truth - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Close their ears to the truth - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
If he could but have probed the truth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
The tactless truth of the picture jarred - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
And Truth walk down the sounding aisles - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Wells where Truth in secret lay - William D. Howells "A Poet"
Until the truth saunters in - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"
Altar where all truth is dispensed - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
These truths like dark snuff - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"
Truth, rising from the bottom of her well - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
At a gate of truth in myth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
And truth's perpetual lamp forbid to wane - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"
Whispered the runes of Truth - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Chase the truth of hummingbirds - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Credited the truth of the promises that fool'd me - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"
To show a disregard for truth - Henry S. Leigh "Crooked Answers No. 1--Vere de Vere"
Whose truths are bloated toads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"
Could tell the truth of the future - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
The bitter blows of truth - Amy Lowell "The End"
Seed of beauty in a ground of truth - Amy Lowell "The Promise of the Morning Star"
Whichever box the truth be stowed in - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Who wrought in the dark mines of Truth - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"
The apple we bit for truth - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
Can lend enchantment to the truth - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Youth"
An illusion is truth untouched of pain - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
The deeper depths of truth - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"
Faint touches of the Final Truth - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Hot, unclouded, copper day of truth - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
Measure chance against truth - Herbert Woodward Martin "Five Finger Exercise"
Saw truth like a perfect crystal - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
To build a ship of truth - John Masefield "Truth"
The truths concealed from pedants' eyes - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
Truths spun at dusk - Shara McCallum "The Border"
Tell the truth and sow the seeds of songs - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Of an aspect sisterly with Truth - George Meredith "Time and Sentiment"
As but an April truth - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Embrace this, the Cup of Truth, and drink - Andy Miller "Diana"
Who butcher Peace and barter Truth - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
Bears witness to the veiled truth of myth - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"
Souls mad for truth have lit from peak to peak - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Truth is no Apollo - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"
Reaches toward undying truths - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"
That truth may thunder between shadows - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans
The economy of sublime truths - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly
With the ardent patience of truth - Pablo Neruda "The Sea and the Love of Quevado" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Without putting an end to truth - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
In the truth of everlasting day - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
While still this truth seemed strange - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
Ignoring the truth of our fate - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Inky-garmented, truth-dead - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"
Was young as truth is - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Had proclaimed a fragment of a truth - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Ten enemies for every truth - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"
Unfolded into the hard truths - Sharon Olds "Voices"
In a country so famous for speaking the truth - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"
Severing thus the truth from trope - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Prologue"
The first gleam of Truth's morning - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Play in truth's eternal sunbeams - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
The little words of truth - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
In younger truth is traced - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
A truth more difficult to touch - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"
Thought the truth would be a falcon - Carl Phillips "The Raft"
The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Telling the heart of their truth - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"
Truth approaches us on flaming wings - John Presland "The Deluge"
Amid the wrecks of truth - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
My aching spirit to the yoke of truth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
But rather truth for love's own sake - Theodore H. Rand "Conduct"
To attempt truth's goal - Theodore H. Rand "To W."
A pleasanter face than is worn by the truth - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Uncommon and agile as truth - Adrienne Rich "For This"
The truth of briars - Adrienne Rich "Fox"
Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Censored lies that mimic truth - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
The only truth in all our perjured composition - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Truth isn't going anywhere - Sahar Romani "Sign"
The freedom of the truth-strong - John Jerome Rooney "Mississippi"
But leave the truth untested - Christina Rossetti "Winter: My Secret"
Stray gleams of love and truth - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
I'm scared of telling the truth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
A truth that is builded on doubt - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"
The web that we call truth - D.L. Sayers "Sympathy"
From truth's own glass of fire - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Truth beyond the authorized & ancient - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Know the truth of your corruption - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Peel back the mask of truth - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
A truth unbearable without this stranger's mask - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
What tongue shall sing this truth? - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Lifted her past midnight into truth - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
May I for my own self song's truth reckon - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Hidden behind simple truth - Alexandra Seidel "Three Visions Seen from Upside-Down"
Truth's a minion of the mind - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"
Truth is the raw material of wisdom - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Truth lays bare the broken bone - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Old men of less truth than tongue - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVII"
Forced to break a twofold truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"
Swears that she is made of truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"
Before the truth of a portent - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
In truth or fable consecrates - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Strange truths in undiscovered lands - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Transitory doorways unto the Truth - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The tangle of truths through which we must weave - Joyce Sidman "Teacher"
The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
As eagles' wings in the quest of Truth - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
Truth's rich and deathless blue - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"
Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"
Only known to souls of truth - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Endure the light which is the truth - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Still unconcerned with truth - Wallace Stevens "Sonnet [Lo, even as I passed beside the booth]"
The truth hid in a well - M. Letitia Stockett "Truth in a Well"
That would trample truth down in the dust - Arthur Stringer "The Children"
Afraid of the wind, afraid of the truth - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"
The ruin in telling the truth - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Love which promised truth - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
From the depth of truth - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
Camouflaged bombers on the ground floor of truth - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Now when the bitter truth is learned - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
One-sided skins of truth - Dylan Thomas "Our eunuch dreams"
The bitter old and wrinkled truth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
But the mirror is not the truth - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
And truth from truth full circle run - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
Wrenched off the hinges from the joints of truth - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Even truth and beauty vanished - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Free Pandora and infectious truths - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Displayed as truth, a weapon, a warning - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
I led to the altar of truth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
The changing sentences and truths of being - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"
Only so much space for the truth - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
Making a story from some pieces of truth - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Her thin, uncontradictable truth - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"
Truth rides upon us - Margaret Walker "Delta"
The cleansing breath of many molten truths - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"
Wept the truth in burning tears - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
The tiny orbs of our own truth - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Arcs"
Truth has its own tough memory - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"
His trophies bright are truth and light - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Nor bitter irony a truth foreshows - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Stands face to face with bitter Truth - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
Must learn the taste of truth - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
Blessed with truth and new delight - Richard Wilbur "June Light"
For the bird was Truth - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"
The praises sold at truth's expense - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Simple truth his utmost skill - Sir Henry Wotton "The Happy Life"
Your truths, our truths, human truths - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
And tasted bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Childhood's dream of changeless truth - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Truth and fiction taking turns - Jenny Xie "Square Cells"
Behind the truth are other truths - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Discoverers of forgotten truth - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"
Truth is now her painted toy - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
Shuts out the sunshine of truth - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"
Our knees tell truths - Javier Zamora "On a Dirt Road outside Oaxaca"
That never aches when I tell the truth - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
Even then slipshod with the truth - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Truth becomes a tasty bait - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Teach us the hard-truths and hurt - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
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