Potential Titles: Hope

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The anchor of our hope is fixed - A.L.O.E. "Emigrant's Hymn"

Any glimmer of hope carried off - Duane Ackerson "The Killer's Suicide Note"

Forced to craft my own light, my own hope - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

With delirious hope for tinsel charms - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Lost everything but hope - Francisco X. Alarcon "Sobreviviente/Survivor"

Hoping they will mistake me for a flower - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

And twirl a big ball of hope - Kwame Alexander "Walter, Age Ten: Celebrating Walter Dean Myers"

Eyes empty as her hopes of escape - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

The Gate said "Abandon All Hope" - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

I thought I'd tossed all my hope away - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

Towards another incomplete hope - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Hope changes the outcome of language - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

For love, hope, reprieve - Simon Armitage "Maundy Thursday"

So I count my hopes - Fatimah Asghar "I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth"

The hopes and dreams of falcons - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "Cry, Wind" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Abandoned love kept whispering hope - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"

Holy with our hopes - Albion Fellows Bacon "A Song"

To dare hope for nothing - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"

Hoping to find a witness - James Baldwin "Guilt, Desire and Love"

A round breath of hope keeping cover - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Passion a snare to hope - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

Spinning in the hope current - Mary Jo Bang "She Couldn't Sing At All, At All"

Hopes that fall like leaves before the wind - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

My inner clown is full of hope - Catherine Barnett "O Esperanza!"

Spinning on beauty and hope - Lou Barrett "Double Portrait with Wineglass"

flower this hope to the springtime - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"

The star of hope eclipse - Cora C. Bass "The Battle of Bunker Hill"

Hope spreads her airy pinions - Cora C. Bass "Longest Lanes Must Have a Turning"

Hope's tortured sails and doubts - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

By guileful Hope misled - James Beattie "Retirement"

Pours each sparkling hope before me - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"

Atop hope's wild horses - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"

Thy spirit intermix with earthly hope - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Binding spells of silence and hope - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

A brighter star on Hope's horizon - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

With static postures of hope - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"

Hopes that lie within their grave - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"

With a smile and words of hope - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"

With little hope of reaching our destinations - Bruce Boston "Chess People"

Tastes like hope, memory, forgiveness - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

A kite of hope in life or hope in death - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"

And take the hope of dreams in trust - William Stanley Braithwaite "It's a Long Way"

In the hope of striking oil - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"

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

With broken hopes and bitter fears - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "The Trail of Tears"

Of light and hope bereft - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"

A hope of bright prosperity - Anne Bronte "In Memory of a Happy Day in February"

Though hope may promise joys - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

Whose hopes too soon depart - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"

To free the deadly hope from your gut - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

Hope within thee deeper than thy truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Of any hope beyond - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

So Memory follows Hope - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The patience of a constant hope - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

With lurid lights of intermittent hope - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Telegraphing messages of hope - Sue Budin "City"

A hope that cannot cheat - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXIV. The Doom of Beauty" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Lost to hope and chilled in every vein - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds

No word of hope you've spoken - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Filled with You"

Only they continued in the hope - Scott Cairns "Late Results"

May hope to see mild Saturn's reign - Tommaso Campanella "XLII. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.3. The Golden Age" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

In secrecy a hopeless hope to nurse - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

When hope's wings fanned the air - W. Wilfred Campbell "Love"

When hope of ours would languish - Phoebe Cary "Otway"

A draught of Hope's crystal tide - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Surely hope has not abandoned our souls - Ana Castillo "These Times"

Reap the hopes I had - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Forge it from the scraps of all your expired hopes - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Were our frail hopes shields - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

Lesser chances and inferior hopes - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Recognize the future in our hopes - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"

And left within his spirit hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"

The day of loss past hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"

The fruit of dreamy hoping - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."

Escaped from the mud of hope - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"

Hoping the moon may say something - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"

Seagulls of hope - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"

Hope's bright birds sing through them - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Radiant webs, by hope and fancy spun - Susan Coolidge "After-Glow"

Our paler festival of hope - Susan Coolidge "Easter"

No baffled hope or memory - Susan Coolidge "Easter Lilies"

Bind all our shattered hopes - Susan Coolidge "Readjustment"

May borrow hope and courage - Benjamin Copeland "Christus Consolator"

Our lofty hopes and longing eyes - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

With hope of Promethean fire - George Cronyn "Clouds"

In Hope's silver sky unfurled - Olive Custance "The Wings of Fortune"

Decayed the hope of future years - The Rev. Thomas Dale "A Mother's Grief" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Budding hope and darling plan - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

And to that distant hope directs her flight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

When Hope's bright star's the transient guest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

With hope's brilliant prospects - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

Can conjure hope in anything - Kwame Dawes "Trickster III"

And when I tire of hoping - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

Not even bees can eat hope - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

Stepping always (we hope) between the lines - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

Write yourself hopeful - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"

Full fed by surging hopes - Irving Sidney Dix "The School of Life"

About to sprout like a sudden hope - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Hope: the last word spoken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"

Hopes grown most sweet - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"

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

The impossible hope of the firefly - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"

And candle false hope - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"

Seared by the breath of hope - Aziz Isa Elkun "Blocked Emotions" transl. by author

Ignites in defiant hope - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author

Fierce battles between sorrow and hope - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author

Variegated life of doubt and hope - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Blue wings mean hope - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"

Smelling outrageously of hope - Mari Evans "Save One Bright Jonquil"

If tranquil hope but trims her lamp - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Eternal Years"

Gentle mistress of my hopes - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

With our cargo of hopes and dreams - Eleanor Farjeon "The Last Night"

Hoping the noon sun won't notice - Sid Farrar The Year Comes Round

Hoping it would take you whole - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Incredible hopes from far - Arthur Davison Ficke "Poetry"

Hope destined an hour to last - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"

When idols and hopes shall fail - George Blackstone Field "The Breed"

Cling to a hope that was broken - George Blackstone Field "Forever"

The torn lantern of my hope - John Gould Fletcher "Disappointment"

In the midnight of his hope - John Gould Fletcher "The Future"

Between the curtain and hope - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Completely fashioned of hope - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Our hope put into questions - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Has long frozen Hope's warm springs - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Fairy cloudlets, flushed with hope - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Old hope in her young eyes - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"

A shout at hope - Tess Gallagher "Souvenir"

Hiding in the underbrush with hopes - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

And hope can be purchased by the pound - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

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

Mourners from the spirit of hope - Alimjan Metqasim Ghemnaki "The Monument of Betrayal" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Assemble these hopeful arrangements - brian g. gilmore "mason, michigan, housing court (evictions #1)"

Exiled by the world of hope - Louise Gluck "Tributaries"

Still had hopes my later hours to crown - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"

Piloted by tinkling bells of hope - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"

In trembling hope repose - Thomas Gray "The Epitaph"

Where Hope's signal lights the night - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

I would call back every hope and fear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Hoping to become more alive - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

Hope herself scarce dared to-morrow - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Sick with hope deferred - Ivor Gurney "'Hark, Hark, the Lark'"

Vigorous thought, unconquerable hope, and high endeavor - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

With the hope of children and corn - Joy Harjo "Grace"

In the fog of thin hope - Joy Harjo "Running"

Dead hopes and faded joys of bright departed years - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

And a sweet hope gilds the future - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"

Hopes my thoughts alone have known - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

To grey routine hope dwindles - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVIII"

Some lost hope of yesterday - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"

Bereft of that high hope - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Never a hint of a challenging hope - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XXIII"

Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Strengthen the hope within my soul - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

Hoping never to open up the cupboard - Conrad Hilberry "Empty Plate"

Sing unto the world their hope - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"

With great hope in its energy - Brenda Hillman "Winged One"

Our hopes with pleasure glowing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Shine as a guarantor for my hopes - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Sowing the seeds of hope - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."

Hope with her tender colors - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"

The love hope nourished - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The First Watch: Tired"

Hopes that had begun to smile - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Hope for the nitrogen feeding your grass - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"

Hope sounds like the adult word for magic - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"

Gray hope was there - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"

Tremulous beliefs, agonized hopes, and ashen flowers - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"

With little more than hope for history - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"

each one a hope exhaled into the trees - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"

a hope exhaled into the trees - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

Hope and all of its helium - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"

Fond hope to nations in distress - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

Last lingering star of hope - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

The hopes and buds that gladdened first - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Hope for better winters - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"

In that epoch between hope and acceptance - Tanque R. Jones "Monarch"

A consolation that doesn't outlive hope - Fady Joudah "Blue Shift"

In my dreams I do not hope - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"

Rings with Hope's unuttered songs - Sir Nizamat Jung "VI: Love's Silence"

From earthly hopes debarred - Sir Nizamat Jung "VII: The Sublime Hope"

A long thin flow of hope - A.M. Juster "Triptych: Dream, Convenience Store, Bar"

Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Misplaced hope in the system - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

The narrow road I hoped to reach - Mary Karr "The Century's Worst Blizzard"

On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

As Hope upon her anchor leans - John Keats "Hyperion"

Clinging to the skirts of Hope - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Teach my drooping hope to live - Fanny Kemble "Absence"

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

From Hope's intense desire go - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

The last sunset of hope pass away - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

Visions Hope's bright finger traces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"

Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

The tender message Hope might send - Henry Kendall "At Dusk"

The day-star of celestial Hope - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

At least hope for stalemate - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

The first tabernacle to Hope - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Not even bees can eat hope - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

With small hope from the center of darkness - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"

Hope ever to return to day's dominion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

A hope worth flying to - Alfred Kreymborg "Peasant"

When the waters of hope abate - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"

United in new bonds of hope - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"

My purse was full of hope - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"

With hope of any new surprise - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Hope and all enchantments - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

The rainbow bridge eternal that is Hope - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

I mourn departed Hope in vain - Henry S. Leigh "An Allegory Written in Deep Dejection"

All our hoping, all our grieving warns us - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"

Less innocent joys and hopes - Henry S. Leigh "Mother"

All the hopes of which Time has bereft me - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (To a Civil Question)"

Hope's conversation the best of the two - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"

Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

That leaves no room for hope - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Drawing our hope from the past - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Not you but our hope of you - Denise Levertov "Variation on a Theme by Rilke"

Terror and the hope ribboning through - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

The grain of hopes that yet shall flower - Amy Levy "A March Day in London"

With hope as wild as weeds - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"

At midnight in the sod huts of lost hope - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Hope snapped in the air - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"

But still hoping for sugar - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"

The confidant of intimate hopes and fears - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"

Consecrate to hope - Amy Lowell "Fatigue"

May give us hopes that sweeten Darwin - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Hoping the sound spins into a tune - Tariq Luthun "After Spending an Evening in November Trying to Convince My Mother We'll Be Fine"

Hope with her Dead Sea fruits is there - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"

And never see the crescent moon of Hope - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

A living tomb of buried hopes - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

A glimpse of hope in the tightest of spots - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

A splendid Hope without alloy - Eric MacKay "Letter I. Prelude"

All hopes that token immortality - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"

Swaddled in old newsprint and hope - Toby MacNutt "When You Read this Debris"

In silence more eloquent than hope - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

On some hard-won eminence of hope - Don Marquis "The Comrade"

When hope grows sick and courage quails - Don Marquis "Dickens"

The wraiths of murdered hopes - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"

Where hope grew pale - George Martin "Marguerite"

Twining subtle fears with hope - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

Brought agonies of hoping to a stop - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Hopes for little after months of rain - John Masefield "King Cole"

Without such turbulent hope - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

With tears and starry hopes - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Gazing on her hopes so surely shattered - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

May never hope for full release - Claude McKay "Outcast"

The one lesson hope has to give - Wesley McNair "The Future"

The ranks of a hope forlorn - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of Forgotten Heroes"

Hope's delusive, glittering beam - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

To cheer the heart whose hopes are dead - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

As Hope's sweet visions fade away - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

I've stopped expecting hope - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Wings like iced hope on her back - Joanne Merriam "Werepenguin"

My hope of suns eternal - Helen M. Merrill "The Blue Flower"

All hope excluded thus - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

Shaken confidence and cheated hopes - "The Misanthrope"

Hoped the chains could not climb this high - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

When faith is fled and hope is dead - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

Slender hopes trembling - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Day at the Dunes"

Inherit me as hope - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A New Nova Speaks"

Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Her perishable souvenir of hope - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"

While Hope still soars on tireless wing - Morna "Ianthe"

Of hope that melted in air - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

Till our hope grow a wrathful fire - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

The glimmer of hope deferred - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

Wear a coat of hope and desire - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

My hands have undressed hope - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Forgot to hope, forgot to weep - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"

Why punch holes in our little hopes - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"

Last hope tiptoed past - Walter Dean Myers "Terry Smith, 24, Unemployed"

Why halt 'twixt hope and fear? - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Shaking the citadel of hope - Francis Neilson "Storm"

Let's just say I hope - Marilyn Nelson "Safe Path Through Quicksand"

An astonishment of hopes - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf

Hope trembled at the bottom of the enemy's bottles - Pablo Neruda "The Masks" transl. by Richard Schaaf

All the centuries of hope deferred - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

Hope and I are long no longer friends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Lighted with lamps of hope - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

And Hope wanders lost - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

Unto the ever hopeful future tell - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Sentinels of forgotten hope - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

And renounce all easy hope - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Chattering ducks who never lose hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Big Songs"

A vessel of golden hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"

Folded document of hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Facebook Notes"

How empty the cup of hope can feel - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"

Inoculate us from the fallacies of hope - Achy Obejas "Succession"

In this world of hope and risk - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"

As circular as hope - Mary Oliver "Snake"

The language is hope - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"

A tiny bowl, empty but for hope - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Skippers"

Which angel hopes foresaw - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Freedom and Truth"

The hopeful, holy, terrible, and fair - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Influence of the Outward"

Upon the timid flickerings of our hope - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines Written in Boston on a Beautiful Autumnal Day"

Which sever hearts from their hopes - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sadness"

The language of hope - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"

Where hopes lay strewn - Wilfred Owen "Apologia pro Poemate"

All the mystery of withered hope - John Oxenham "God's Handwriting"

Feed us with hopes, yet with-hold us relief - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Embraces me with her rusted hope - Cynthia Pelayo "Casa Juicio Final"

As we carried our hopes for the future - Andre F. Peltier "Our Garage, Our Dagobah"

To read as a glyph of hope - Angela Penaredondo "to hold these contradictions in kinship"

And gladdens into hopes my fears - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

By hope of fortune sped - Walter S. Percy "I Give Thee My Promise"

The little words of hope - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"

The hope that's almost spent - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"

Hope is more than sages learn - Walter S. Percy "What Is Truth?"

Selling knock-off hopes - Phan Nhien Hao "The City of Ant Nests" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Ritual in the name of hope - Carl Phillips "Defiance"

The snow fell like hope - Carl Phillips "So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open"

Open nevertheless like hope - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

As my Hopes have flown before - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

That buried hope with dust - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

But your hopes made you forget - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Tlaltecuhtli"

From the rose-tree of our hopes - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

Silver pipe of hope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"

In hope to cheat his foes - May Probyn "The Bees of Myddleton Manor"

Feeding with the sap of hope - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"

Through the burning day in hope prevail - Dollie Radford "Song"

The budding summer hopes our hearts too fondly cherished - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

A land whose hopes find no fruition - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Prate not of failing hopes, of fading flowers - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Hope a guest at my right hand - Herbert Randall "The Enigma"

Bones of articulate hope - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

Tangled purposes and hopes undone - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Life"

Every hope more vague and undefined - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

hope on ice sharpened days and nights - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Sinewed dreams string together bones of hope - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Networks of outrage and hope - Joan Retallack "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"

Arched with halos of hopes unmixed - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Hoping they have redemption stored - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Plowed contours of shame and hope - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Hope freights your tides - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Canadian Streams"

The strife of hope that struggles - Charles G.D. Roberts "A Street Vigil"

A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

Our scarce-fledged hopes and blighted joys - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VI"

When songs were laughter and hope - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"

Throats in the clutch of a hope - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"

Idomitable hope or vain derision - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Our dreams hold less of hope - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"

In hopes of wiping out some future hell - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"

A shard of shattered hope - Clinton Scollard "Rahinane"

New hope ribboning behind - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"

A meteor of hope in the darkness - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"

To one more rich in hope - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIX"

Entwined those rooted hopes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Charred by scathed hopes and Hate's undying brand - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Too small for any hope or promise - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"

On which all my soul's hopes hang - Paulus Silentarius "241. ["Farewell" is on my tongue]" (translated by William Roger Paton)

So is the hope of sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Anticipation"

The funeral pyre of every hope - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

Under the tall sky of hope - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Through an avalanche of hopes - Clarence Victor Stahl "Push Onward"

Exertion draws the mind from hope - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"

The quirk of hope in recurrent nightmares - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"

The crown of all our hopes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Surrendering all human hopes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

Against the day of thy hope - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

Gives Hope her haven - George Sterling "October"

Or kindred mystery and hope - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Half of a broken hope - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"

Too strange for fear, too vast for hope - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Through the gates of Hope and Memory - W.W. Story "Sonnet"

The bright land of his hopes - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Solace and hope in the upturned loam - Arthur Stringer "There Is Strength in the Soil"

Without hope or rumour of reprieve - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

Immersed in hopes of you - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 176: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The future is strewn with the roses of hope - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Friend of hopes foregone - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Such hopes as time discrowns - Algernon Swinburne "Past Days"

The goal of hope's surmises - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

Born of high-souled hope - Algernon Swinburne "To Dora Dorian"

Hope at highest and all her fruit - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Wrecked hope and passionate pain - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

In hearts that are too great for hope - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

The fate his fondest hopes had met - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Hopes that clash like ice and fire - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

May hope for a wizard's aid - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley

On golden threads of hope and fear - Rose Terry "Then"

Sparkles of hope, and drops of fear - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

Wild November raged that hope was past - Edward William Thomson "The Bad Year"

Whose faith and hopes are dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Nearly equal measures of hope - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"

Precious beads of hope are pearled on each sorrow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

Bid Hope his thrilling clarion blow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

In a dance of yellow hopefulness - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

Opens the secret chambers of our hopes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

The hope and fear in jugglery - Iris Tree "[When I am weary at the antic chance]"

Hoped to pluck the fruits of life - Tso Ssu "The Scholar in the Narrow Street" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

The surging dark will flow over my hopes - W.J. Turner "Death"

And restore the beautiful hopes of youth - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"

Holding the stubborn hope of conquering - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

Embers of hope upon the ashen air - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Not hope to climb above the level commonplace - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

A century of hope - Charles William Wallace "Through Reverent Eyes"

Hoping to drive off sorrow - Wang An-shih "Written for My Own Amusement" transl. by Burton Watson

Many a fair hope crushed and broken - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

The half-hope and passion unexpressed - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

Hoping to cease not - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

The stuff Hope takes to build her brittle boat - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

Has drowned the hopes that Fortune held - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"

And Hope that singes her wings - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"

Hope each day renewed and fresh - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"

Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

All the rising flames of hope - Adolf Wolff "The Cloud"

On a tongue of hope - Nancy Wood "Beginning Time"

Might hope for compassion - Jay Wright "Sasa"

Hoped the future too would yield - Adam Zagajewski "Bertolt Brecht in Eternity"

Hope in a binary data stream - Matthew Zapruder "Sad News"

Hoping to sidestep felony - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"


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