Potential Titles: Hope
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somethingdarkerThe 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"
Where all the hopes are sleeping - Effie Afton "Ellen"
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"
A little round of idle hopes and fears - James Aldrich "To the Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]
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"
Winged hopes that no longer stay - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Towards another incomplete hope - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
Hope changes the outcome of language - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
This place looks like hope when it wears out - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
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"
The bright hopes that must find a tomb - Charles W. Baird "Spirit-Voices" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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"
What satiation can compare to hope? - John Kendrick Bangs "Satisfaction on Reading 'Not One Dissatisfied,' by Walt Whitman"
Hopes that fall like leaves before the wind - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"
My inner clown is full of hope - Catherine Barnett "O Esperanza!"
In the first heart-beats of my hope - Natalie Clifford Barney "Life"
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"
Where hope lies tombed in tears - Samuel Alfred Beadle "Alice"
By guileful Hope misled - James Beattie "Retirement"
Pours each sparkling hope before me - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
When the moment has gone by for hoping - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"
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
To the hard hope of things unhazarded - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: I. The Victories"
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"
Fairest hopes, with smiling memories spun - Emma E. Brewster "Gifts for St. Nicholas" [St. Nicholas v.V no.4, Feb. 1878]
Blue fires, old thrilling hopes leaped and died - Nellie Rathbone Bright "To One Who Might Have Been My Friend"
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"
Flourish souls with lemon drop hope - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
To free the deadly hope from your gut - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
The old hope is hardest to be lost - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]
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"
The Southern Cross shimmering like a signet of hope - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
A pizzicato off the thin strings of hope - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Telegraphing messages of hope - Sue Budin "City"
Hope whisper'd her first fairy tales - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
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"
The fountain of hope is not yet dry - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
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
Fear too much, and hope too little - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
Listening to the hopeful skylark's call - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
That give green thoughts in sunshine and bright hopes in gloom - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
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"
And hope departed with the day - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"
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
An empty hope that passes on the wind - Miguel de Cervantes "Galatea Book I" transl. by H. Oelsner & A.B. Welford
Nor bribe with hopes of paradise - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
Breathing a hope that is half a prayer - Ralph Chaplin "Song of Separation"
Knowing well the hopes and fears of seven - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XIII"
The hungering hope deferred for good to be - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXXIX"
Where Time dispels the hopes that Fancy gave - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
Two hearts with single hope - G.K. Chesterton "A Dedication to E.C.B."
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"
When hope and patience both give up - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Hoping the moon may say something - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"
Seagulls of hope - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"
Over my brightest hopes the nightshade waves - Robt. T. Conrad "To My Wife" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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"
For love out the door of hope - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Our lofty hopes and longing eyes - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
With many a hope and not one fear - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Running After the Rainbow"
With hope of Promethean fire - George Cronyn "Clouds"
In Hope's silver sky unfurled - Olive Custance "The Wings of Fortune"
There is no hope to conjure you - H.D. "Sea Gods"
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"
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Not even bees can eat hope - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Like Hope's voice preaching to Despair - Delta "The Dark Waggon [sic]" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXI, v.LXVII, Jan. 1850]
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]
When day shuts in upon our hopes - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Hope, still elusive, baffled by despair - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
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]
To balk the hopes of vulgar curiosity - Lord Alfred Douglas writing as The Belgian Hare "Song for Sidlers"
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"
Hopes in speeches, fears in papers - Arthur Conan Doyle "Haig Is Moving"
The impossible hope of the firefly - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"
The hopes and prophecies were dead - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"
And candle false hope - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"
We wade backwards with hope, and dream restlessly - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
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"
Hoped with pride o'erweening to lay Athens waste - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
If this elate your soul with hope - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Was nurtured with the flattering hope - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
For Time preserves not our hopes entire - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Hoping such philtre may thy griefs appease - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fair hope, while life remains, can never be extinct - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Smelling outrageously of hope - Mari Evans "Save One Bright Jonquil"
The hopes that fade to cold regrets - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
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"
Meadows where my famished hopes are feeding - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
To our hopes and hearts that falter - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"
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'"
The waste where all life's hopes have perished - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
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]
Whose golden hopes are gilding bud and flower - "Gather Ripe Fruit, Oh Death!" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.3, Sept. 1852]
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"
Epitaph above the grave of human hopes - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Some of his hopes were crowned with triumph - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Hoping to pass the camp all unobserved - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
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"
Though the farmer's hope may perish - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
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]
Here always in hope unavailing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Gloucester Harbor"
According to the hints that hopes give out - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"
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)
Dare still to hope on in his forlorn despair - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Did Hope not hold her mirror - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
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"
For hopes that will never be born again - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Sea-Song"
Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Of trampled hopes and reaped regrets - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: January"
Like good Saint Francis scatters crumbs of Hope - Oliver Herford "William Dean Howells"
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"
Hope for Experience boldly steers - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
That hope which wreck nor ruin fears - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Our hopes with pleasure glowing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"
What hope of speed, what dread of long delays - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
With that only thought comfort myself when that my hope is nought - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]"
Roses open with hope new-born - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
And weariness beyond the hope of death - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses I: [Mother of all my future memories]"
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"
Hope stands smiling on the margin - Francis de Haes Janvier "Ambition's Burial-Ground" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
My consolation, and my hope deferred, but not denied - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
They have hoped as youth will hope - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
They kill our holiest of Hopes - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"
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"
Between the lands of disappointment and of hope - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
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"
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]
On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"
While I plunge on through my dead hopes below - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"
When hope had fled and faith had died - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"
Hope knows no hindrance but clipped wings - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Optimist"
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"
There is nor hope nor mutiny in you - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
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"
With a flutter of hope and of dark-shut doubt - D.H. Lawrence "Perfidy"
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"
A stone I can only hope to shoulder forever - Shara Lessley "Sisyphus"
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"
Four thousand years of toil and hope and thought - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"
Our hope was crushed and silenced - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"
And still returned again with hope undone - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"
With hope as wild as weeds - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
The last of day reflects a silver hope - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: At Florence"
I will not cease hoping though you weep - Vachel Lindsay "The Amaranth"
At midnight in the sod huts of lost hope - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
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"
Kind hopes and musical surprises - James Russell Lowell "Fancies About a Rosebud, Pressed in an Old Copy of Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Of hope for what returneth never - J.R. Lowell "A Song [Violet! sweet violet!]" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
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!"
Could I but read thy oracle of hope - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
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"
Lost angels crowned with broken hopes - Frederic Manning "The Lost Angel"
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"
Hopeful, round portion at the final bite - Maya Marshall "The Collection Room"
Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"
Where hope grew pale - George Martin "Marguerite"
To calculate our minimum of hope - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The unspoken hope turned explicit - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hope was unbalanced by terror but lifted its banner anew - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Where hope was slight against such glooms - Harry Martinson "Aniara 93" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
No hope for desire to remake life - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
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]
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]
Both hoping nevermore to meet - 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]
And through the future years hope on - 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]
Glutted with baffled hopes and lost to pity - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
May never hope for full release - Claude McKay "Outcast"
Hope unanchored--broken dreams - Kate Slaughter McKinney aka Katydid "To a Katydid"
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"
Hopes no heaven, but fears no fall - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Pillow]
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"
Watched until hope was a speck and gone - Susan Mitchell "Wolf Moon"
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"
Hope looked for what was lost - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 62"
While Hope still soars on tireless wing - Morna "Ianthe"
Hope's eternal watch-fire gives it light - Robert Morris "A Sea Scene" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
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"
I wear a coat of hope and desire - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
I lift up and button my collar of hope - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
My hands have undressed hope - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Forgot to hope, forgot to weep - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"
Those thorns protect the forest's hopes - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, I"
Why punch holes in our little hopes - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"
Last hope tiptoed past - Walter Dean Myers "Terry Smith, 24, Unemployed"
Hope's triumphant keen flame-carven sword - Sarojini Naidu "Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile"
With all my blossoming hopes unharvested - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet to Death"
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"
My hope in earth's dark dungeon - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
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'"
Small as the hope of stumbling feet - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Inoculate us from the fallacies of hope - Achy Obejas "Succession"
Trembling Hope, with waning spark, fades - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "No Tears" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.43-v.I, 25 Oct. 1884]
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"
And by Its Lustre hope to shun Eternal Night - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
As my Hopes have flown before - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
My hopes are as gold in my pathway - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]
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"
Leave hope and learn your song - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your 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"
The rosy gateway of a lingering hope - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "To Memory"
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"
Be heirs of bright hopes and immortality - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"
Through all his years of striving hope - J.S. "Goethe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Nursed in fable, painted hopes and portent sable - J.S. "Hymn of a Hermit" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Flamboyant hopes and lovely rainbow griefs - Vita Sackville-West "A Masque of Youth (A Mock-Heroic Poem)"
Throats in the clutch of a hope - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"
Idomitable hope or vain derision - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Vague as harvest hopes in May - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Move on companioned with eternal hope - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
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"
Big with wrecked promises and abandoned hopes - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"
Into a tangled thicket of future hopes and sorrows - M. Bartley Seigel "A Good Omen"
Hoping I don't drown in waters I can't fathom - M. Bartley Seigel "I'm Told It's Foolish to Befriend a Water Lynx"
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)
Where suicide becomes the hopeful thing - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"
Wreathes of hope in darkness laid - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The New Year"
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)
Be it his Vestibule to hope, and light, and peace - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
So is the hope of sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Anticipation"
A tempest withers Hope's reviving flowers - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The funeral pyre of every hope - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Though it speak of hope the while - Mrs. Seba Smith "Thou Hast Loved" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
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"
The sweetest hope wherewith its paths are lit - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
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
Hoping its way to the rainbow warrior aurora - Faye Susan "Lego Rhapsody" [Strange Horizon 26 May 2025]
My hot dreams, and my distempered hopes - Wm. Albert Sutliffe "Fragment of a Poem" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
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"
Fear died of hope as darkness dies of day - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Dirae"
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
I'll admit the hope that we intersect with everything - Keith Taylor "Outside"
The ashen values of bright-burning hopes - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXVI: Divination"
From my hopes that turned to sand - Sara Teasdale "Refuge"
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"
Lifted high in hope and heart above the glen - John Tomlin "Isola" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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]"
To summon hope even in the gathered dark - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
Flickering hopes falling from the clouds - John Trudell "Beauty in a Fade/49 Wait for Me"
Hope opens to your view glories - "True Affection" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.6, Dec. 1842]
Gulfs remote from happiness or hope - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
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"
The oasis in our Desert of Lost Hope - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
In hope we find the symbol of a broken heart - Rudolph Valentino "Shadows"
Hope, neglected, falls behind until we walk alone - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
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]
With dead men's hopes stamped like designs into mud - George Sylvester Viereck "Dr. Faust's Descent from Heaven"
Lured by the wraith of long-departed hope - George Sylvester Viereck "The Pilgrim"
Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
My soul awaken at Hope's glad summons - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]
A century of hope - Charles William Wallace "Through Reverent Eyes"
Hoping dusk will light the journey home - Wang An-Shih "Returning Home from Bell Mountain at Dusk, Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Empty hopes in the drift of cicada song - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Hoping to drive off sorrow - Wang An-shih "Written for My Own Amusement" transl. by Burton Watson
Our smallest hopes, evening's fading beacons - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
By such tricks to hope for gain - Isaac Watts "The Thief"
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"
Out of hopeful green stuff woven - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
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"
Ghost of a Hope that lighted my days - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"
Born with joy, reared with hope - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
Who is not fallen from his hope - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 14" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
False hopes are for a man void of understanding - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 34" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Void is their hope and their toils unprofitable - "The Wisdom of Solomon 3" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
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"
On mornings when I hope you forget my name - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]
I have no hope beyond the darkness - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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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From depths unfathomed of a secret Fate unhoped - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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Any glimmer of hope carried off - Duane Ackerson "The Killer's Suicide Note"
Where all the hopes are sleeping - Effie Afton "Ellen"
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"
A little round of idle hopes and fears - James Aldrich "To the Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]
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"
Winged hopes that no longer stay - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Towards another incomplete hope - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
Hope changes the outcome of language - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
This place looks like hope when it wears out - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
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"
The bright hopes that must find a tomb - Charles W. Baird "Spirit-Voices" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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"
What satiation can compare to hope? - John Kendrick Bangs "Satisfaction on Reading 'Not One Dissatisfied,' by Walt Whitman"
Hopes that fall like leaves before the wind - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"
My inner clown is full of hope - Catherine Barnett "O Esperanza!"
In the first heart-beats of my hope - Natalie Clifford Barney "Life"
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"
Where hope lies tombed in tears - Samuel Alfred Beadle "Alice"
By guileful Hope misled - James Beattie "Retirement"
Pours each sparkling hope before me - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
When the moment has gone by for hoping - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"
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
To the hard hope of things unhazarded - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: I. The Victories"
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"
Fairest hopes, with smiling memories spun - Emma E. Brewster "Gifts for St. Nicholas" [St. Nicholas v.V no.4, Feb. 1878]
Blue fires, old thrilling hopes leaped and died - Nellie Rathbone Bright "To One Who Might Have Been My Friend"
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"
Flourish souls with lemon drop hope - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
To free the deadly hope from your gut - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
The old hope is hardest to be lost - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]
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"
The Southern Cross shimmering like a signet of hope - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
A pizzicato off the thin strings of hope - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Telegraphing messages of hope - Sue Budin "City"
Hope whisper'd her first fairy tales - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
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"
The fountain of hope is not yet dry - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
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
Fear too much, and hope too little - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
Listening to the hopeful skylark's call - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
That give green thoughts in sunshine and bright hopes in gloom - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
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"
And hope departed with the day - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"
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
An empty hope that passes on the wind - Miguel de Cervantes "Galatea Book I" transl. by H. Oelsner & A.B. Welford
Nor bribe with hopes of paradise - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
Breathing a hope that is half a prayer - Ralph Chaplin "Song of Separation"
Knowing well the hopes and fears of seven - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XIII"
The hungering hope deferred for good to be - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXXIX"
Where Time dispels the hopes that Fancy gave - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
Two hearts with single hope - G.K. Chesterton "A Dedication to E.C.B."
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"
When hope and patience both give up - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Hoping the moon may say something - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"
Seagulls of hope - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"
Over my brightest hopes the nightshade waves - Robt. T. Conrad "To My Wife" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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"
For love out the door of hope - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Our lofty hopes and longing eyes - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
With many a hope and not one fear - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Running After the Rainbow"
With hope of Promethean fire - George Cronyn "Clouds"
In Hope's silver sky unfurled - Olive Custance "The Wings of Fortune"
There is no hope to conjure you - H.D. "Sea Gods"
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"
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Not even bees can eat hope - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Like Hope's voice preaching to Despair - Delta "The Dark Waggon [sic]" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXI, v.LXVII, Jan. 1850]
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]
When day shuts in upon our hopes - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Hope, still elusive, baffled by despair - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
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]
To balk the hopes of vulgar curiosity - Lord Alfred Douglas writing as The Belgian Hare "Song for Sidlers"
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"
Hopes in speeches, fears in papers - Arthur Conan Doyle "Haig Is Moving"
The impossible hope of the firefly - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"
The hopes and prophecies were dead - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"
And candle false hope - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"
We wade backwards with hope, and dream restlessly - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
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"
Hoped with pride o'erweening to lay Athens waste - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
If this elate your soul with hope - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Was nurtured with the flattering hope - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
For Time preserves not our hopes entire - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Hoping such philtre may thy griefs appease - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fair hope, while life remains, can never be extinct - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Smelling outrageously of hope - Mari Evans "Save One Bright Jonquil"
The hopes that fade to cold regrets - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
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"
Meadows where my famished hopes are feeding - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
To our hopes and hearts that falter - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"
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'"
The waste where all life's hopes have perished - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
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]
Whose golden hopes are gilding bud and flower - "Gather Ripe Fruit, Oh Death!" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.3, Sept. 1852]
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"
Epitaph above the grave of human hopes - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Some of his hopes were crowned with triumph - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Hoping to pass the camp all unobserved - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
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"
Though the farmer's hope may perish - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
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]
Here always in hope unavailing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Gloucester Harbor"
According to the hints that hopes give out - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"
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)
Dare still to hope on in his forlorn despair - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Did Hope not hold her mirror - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
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"
For hopes that will never be born again - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Sea-Song"
Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Of trampled hopes and reaped regrets - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: January"
Like good Saint Francis scatters crumbs of Hope - Oliver Herford "William Dean Howells"
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"
Hope for Experience boldly steers - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
That hope which wreck nor ruin fears - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Our hopes with pleasure glowing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"
What hope of speed, what dread of long delays - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
With that only thought comfort myself when that my hope is nought - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]"
Roses open with hope new-born - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
And weariness beyond the hope of death - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses I: [Mother of all my future memories]"
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"
Hope stands smiling on the margin - Francis de Haes Janvier "Ambition's Burial-Ground" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
My consolation, and my hope deferred, but not denied - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
They have hoped as youth will hope - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
They kill our holiest of Hopes - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"
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"
Between the lands of disappointment and of hope - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
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"
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]
On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"
While I plunge on through my dead hopes below - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"
When hope had fled and faith had died - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"
Hope knows no hindrance but clipped wings - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Optimist"
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"
There is nor hope nor mutiny in you - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
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"
With a flutter of hope and of dark-shut doubt - D.H. Lawrence "Perfidy"
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"
A stone I can only hope to shoulder forever - Shara Lessley "Sisyphus"
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"
Four thousand years of toil and hope and thought - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"
Our hope was crushed and silenced - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"
And still returned again with hope undone - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"
With hope as wild as weeds - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
The last of day reflects a silver hope - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: At Florence"
I will not cease hoping though you weep - Vachel Lindsay "The Amaranth"
At midnight in the sod huts of lost hope - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
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"
Kind hopes and musical surprises - James Russell Lowell "Fancies About a Rosebud, Pressed in an Old Copy of Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Of hope for what returneth never - J.R. Lowell "A Song [Violet! sweet violet!]" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
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!"
Could I but read thy oracle of hope - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
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"
Lost angels crowned with broken hopes - Frederic Manning "The Lost Angel"
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"
Hopeful, round portion at the final bite - Maya Marshall "The Collection Room"
Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"
Where hope grew pale - George Martin "Marguerite"
To calculate our minimum of hope - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The unspoken hope turned explicit - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hope was unbalanced by terror but lifted its banner anew - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Where hope was slight against such glooms - Harry Martinson "Aniara 93" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
No hope for desire to remake life - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
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]
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]
Both hoping nevermore to meet - 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]
And through the future years hope on - 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]
Glutted with baffled hopes and lost to pity - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
May never hope for full release - Claude McKay "Outcast"
Hope unanchored--broken dreams - Kate Slaughter McKinney aka Katydid "To a Katydid"
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"
Hopes no heaven, but fears no fall - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Pillow]
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"
Watched until hope was a speck and gone - Susan Mitchell "Wolf Moon"
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"
Hope looked for what was lost - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 62"
While Hope still soars on tireless wing - Morna "Ianthe"
Hope's eternal watch-fire gives it light - Robert Morris "A Sea Scene" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
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"
I wear a coat of hope and desire - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
I lift up and button my collar of hope - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
My hands have undressed hope - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Forgot to hope, forgot to weep - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"
Those thorns protect the forest's hopes - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, I"
Why punch holes in our little hopes - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"
Last hope tiptoed past - Walter Dean Myers "Terry Smith, 24, Unemployed"
Hope's triumphant keen flame-carven sword - Sarojini Naidu "Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile"
With all my blossoming hopes unharvested - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet to Death"
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"
My hope in earth's dark dungeon - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
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'"
Small as the hope of stumbling feet - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Inoculate us from the fallacies of hope - Achy Obejas "Succession"
Trembling Hope, with waning spark, fades - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "No Tears" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.43-v.I, 25 Oct. 1884]
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"
And by Its Lustre hope to shun Eternal Night - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
As my Hopes have flown before - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
My hopes are as gold in my pathway - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]
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"
Leave hope and learn your song - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your 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"
The rosy gateway of a lingering hope - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "To Memory"
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"
Be heirs of bright hopes and immortality - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"
Through all his years of striving hope - J.S. "Goethe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Nursed in fable, painted hopes and portent sable - J.S. "Hymn of a Hermit" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Flamboyant hopes and lovely rainbow griefs - Vita Sackville-West "A Masque of Youth (A Mock-Heroic Poem)"
Throats in the clutch of a hope - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"
Idomitable hope or vain derision - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Vague as harvest hopes in May - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Move on companioned with eternal hope - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
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"
Big with wrecked promises and abandoned hopes - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"
Into a tangled thicket of future hopes and sorrows - M. Bartley Seigel "A Good Omen"
Hoping I don't drown in waters I can't fathom - M. Bartley Seigel "I'm Told It's Foolish to Befriend a Water Lynx"
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)
Where suicide becomes the hopeful thing - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"
Wreathes of hope in darkness laid - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The New Year"
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)
Be it his Vestibule to hope, and light, and peace - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
So is the hope of sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Anticipation"
A tempest withers Hope's reviving flowers - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The funeral pyre of every hope - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Though it speak of hope the while - Mrs. Seba Smith "Thou Hast Loved" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
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"
The sweetest hope wherewith its paths are lit - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
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
Hoping its way to the rainbow warrior aurora - Faye Susan "Lego Rhapsody" [Strange Horizon 26 May 2025]
My hot dreams, and my distempered hopes - Wm. Albert Sutliffe "Fragment of a Poem" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
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"
Fear died of hope as darkness dies of day - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Dirae"
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
I'll admit the hope that we intersect with everything - Keith Taylor "Outside"
The ashen values of bright-burning hopes - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXVI: Divination"
From my hopes that turned to sand - Sara Teasdale "Refuge"
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"
Lifted high in hope and heart above the glen - John Tomlin "Isola" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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]"
To summon hope even in the gathered dark - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
Flickering hopes falling from the clouds - John Trudell "Beauty in a Fade/49 Wait for Me"
Hope opens to your view glories - "True Affection" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.6, Dec. 1842]
Gulfs remote from happiness or hope - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
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"
The oasis in our Desert of Lost Hope - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
In hope we find the symbol of a broken heart - Rudolph Valentino "Shadows"
Hope, neglected, falls behind until we walk alone - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
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]
With dead men's hopes stamped like designs into mud - George Sylvester Viereck "Dr. Faust's Descent from Heaven"
Lured by the wraith of long-departed hope - George Sylvester Viereck "The Pilgrim"
Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
My soul awaken at Hope's glad summons - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]
A century of hope - Charles William Wallace "Through Reverent Eyes"
Hoping dusk will light the journey home - Wang An-Shih "Returning Home from Bell Mountain at Dusk, Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Empty hopes in the drift of cicada song - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Hoping to drive off sorrow - Wang An-shih "Written for My Own Amusement" transl. by Burton Watson
Our smallest hopes, evening's fading beacons - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
By such tricks to hope for gain - Isaac Watts "The Thief"
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"
Out of hopeful green stuff woven - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
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"
Ghost of a Hope that lighted my days - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"
Born with joy, reared with hope - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
Who is not fallen from his hope - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 14" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
False hopes are for a man void of understanding - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 34" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Void is their hope and their toils unprofitable - "The Wisdom of Solomon 3" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
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"
On mornings when I hope you forget my name - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]
I have no hope beyond the darkness - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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"
Hopeless.
From depths unfathomed of a secret Fate unhoped - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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