Potential Titles: Thirst
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somethingdarkerHell's keen fires still for revenge athirst - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Thirst for a rapid, riper summer - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"
The thirst that ached in his shriveled cells - Mike Allen "Deluge"
A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
An answer to your constant thirst - Alise Alousi "How to Name the Baby"
Where water is not thirsty - Maya Angelou "Alone"
A thirst to spend our fire - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
Thirsty for its song - Atticus "Magic in Youth"
To build a house against thunder and thirst - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Sands thirst for unquenchable seas - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
Grapes from stones, thirst into wine - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sacrament"
Give us drink for our bitter thirst - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Slaking the heart's immortal thirst - William Rose Benét "Imagination"
Where forgotten gods lie thirsting - Paul Bernstein "A Prayer for the Departed"
For the dirty thirst of this land - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
The thirst for the dark heavens - Robert Bly "Waiting for the Stars"
Fragrant stream where thirsty creatures go - Arna Bontemps "Homing"
Nor any thirst can drain - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
Thirsted for a green grave - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
The thirst of an almost anything - Mahogany L. Browne "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"
Undying thirst that purifies - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Quench the thirst of the longing heart - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
After that there is Thirst - Tina Chang "Evolution of Danger"
I'll quench my thirst with dead water - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Cool water to the thirsty lamb - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The sharp and thirsty blood of Paris - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Out of such sacred thirst - Olive Tilford Dargan "Path Flower"
The thirst of infinite desire possessed me - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Chose hunger over thirst - Diane DeCillis "Reconsidering Yellow"
Water is taught by thirst - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LI"
A thirst trap hinged on diaspora - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
Thirsty reaching down for roots - Kathy Engel "It would be water"
To quench my anger's thirst - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"
You only exist because of thirst - Tarfia Faizullah "I Told the Water"
Thirst at the watering hole - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
With thirst of praise and glory burns - "Flora: a Vision"
The onset of this terrible thirst - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
A raw thirst for precision for absolutes - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
A wall between the thirst and the river - Andrea Gibson "Dear Trump Voter,"
With nothing but the thirsty wind to chew - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"
Days I have been the thirst - Nikita Gill "Why I Am Magic"
Quench your thirst with stinging brine - Dana Gioia "Seaward"
The sorrow of thirsting for sounds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Summer Songs"
Because they conjured thirst - J.P. Grasser "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild"
And dropped his thirsty lance - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Strong thirst past satisfaction - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
From out these parched and thirsty lands - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
All of our thirsty dreams - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Drink if you really thirst - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Sacrements"
On seas of thirsty flames - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
A well runs out of thirst - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
In random thirsts rise - Erica Hunt "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
As if the tempest thirsted for the rain - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Thirst is a way of knowing - Taylor Johnson "Club 2718"
Refreshing to the wounded spirit's thirst - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The magic that swells the thirst of your soul - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"
When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Bid the fountains leap in thirsty lands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
Which once had quenched my bitter thirst - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
What might come of flinging oneself into thirst - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
Sing against her thirsty stones - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"
Joy sufficient for my life-old thirst - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
The pressure of our thirsty lips - George Martin "Marguerite"
Aurelian's soldiers swept the thirsty sands - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Eternity will quench your thirst - Edgar Lee Masters "Mirage of the Desert"
A gleaming lake haunting your thirst - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege" [2]
Such Olympian thirst assuage - Louis J. McQuilland "Old Friends, Old Books, Old Wines"
To teach philosophers the thirst of thieves - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
His breath of instant thirst - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
By its craven thirsts and fears distraught - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Not expecting to be crushed by thirst - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
The begging of so many thirsts - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
Thirst for wind and open space - Christopher Morley "At the Dog Show"
Boots worn out by the thirsty roads - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid
Beside the thistle's thirst - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Thirst defines my country - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid
Golden tongue nourished on thirst - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips - Pablo Neruda "Morning VI" transl. by Mark Eisner
Behind thirsty tigers - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Chair" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney
A fruit from the thirst-tree - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
A bottle filled with thirsty salt - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With lips invaded by thirst - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
More than curses for the thirsty hyenas - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
A thirst that wanders - Hoa Nguyen "Ficus Carica Sonnet"
And quench thy salty thirst anew - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Like a red thirst - Mary Oliver "The Deer"
Many a tortured life is thirsting for a cooling draught - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
My random turnstile of thirst - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
And to fill with light the thirsty - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
For the thirsting flowers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud"
How dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
The roots of thirst - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"
Constantly thirsty in a dry land - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Destiny"
Quench ten thousand Stygian thirsts - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Oasis"
Shorn of dreams and free of thirst - George Sterling "The Cynic"
Or quench their starry thirst - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
My eyes are dying of thirst - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 152: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Allays the immortal thirst it cannot slake - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Rise like thirsty thunder - John Updike "New York City"
Thirsty memory drinks deep - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
The way thirst holds water - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
Drowned from too much thirst - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Made thirst seem bitter-sweet - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"
With what deep thirst we quicken - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"
What anchors us to this thirst - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Weathers the white earth's thirst - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
The first rest of a thirstless journey - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Woman"
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Thirst for a rapid, riper summer - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"
The thirst that ached in his shriveled cells - Mike Allen "Deluge"
A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
An answer to your constant thirst - Alise Alousi "How to Name the Baby"
Where water is not thirsty - Maya Angelou "Alone"
A thirst to spend our fire - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
Thirsty for its song - Atticus "Magic in Youth"
To build a house against thunder and thirst - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Sands thirst for unquenchable seas - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
Grapes from stones, thirst into wine - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sacrament"
Give us drink for our bitter thirst - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Slaking the heart's immortal thirst - William Rose Benét "Imagination"
Where forgotten gods lie thirsting - Paul Bernstein "A Prayer for the Departed"
For the dirty thirst of this land - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
The thirst for the dark heavens - Robert Bly "Waiting for the Stars"
Fragrant stream where thirsty creatures go - Arna Bontemps "Homing"
Nor any thirst can drain - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
Thirsted for a green grave - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
The thirst of an almost anything - Mahogany L. Browne "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"
Undying thirst that purifies - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Quench the thirst of the longing heart - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
After that there is Thirst - Tina Chang "Evolution of Danger"
I'll quench my thirst with dead water - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Cool water to the thirsty lamb - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The sharp and thirsty blood of Paris - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Out of such sacred thirst - Olive Tilford Dargan "Path Flower"
The thirst of infinite desire possessed me - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Chose hunger over thirst - Diane DeCillis "Reconsidering Yellow"
Water is taught by thirst - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LI"
A thirst trap hinged on diaspora - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
Thirsty reaching down for roots - Kathy Engel "It would be water"
To quench my anger's thirst - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"
You only exist because of thirst - Tarfia Faizullah "I Told the Water"
Thirst at the watering hole - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
With thirst of praise and glory burns - "Flora: a Vision"
The onset of this terrible thirst - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
A raw thirst for precision for absolutes - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
A wall between the thirst and the river - Andrea Gibson "Dear Trump Voter,"
With nothing but the thirsty wind to chew - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"
Days I have been the thirst - Nikita Gill "Why I Am Magic"
Quench your thirst with stinging brine - Dana Gioia "Seaward"
The sorrow of thirsting for sounds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Summer Songs"
Because they conjured thirst - J.P. Grasser "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild"
And dropped his thirsty lance - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Strong thirst past satisfaction - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
From out these parched and thirsty lands - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
All of our thirsty dreams - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Drink if you really thirst - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Sacrements"
On seas of thirsty flames - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
A well runs out of thirst - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
In random thirsts rise - Erica Hunt "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
As if the tempest thirsted for the rain - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Thirst is a way of knowing - Taylor Johnson "Club 2718"
Refreshing to the wounded spirit's thirst - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The magic that swells the thirst of your soul - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"
When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Bid the fountains leap in thirsty lands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
Which once had quenched my bitter thirst - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
What might come of flinging oneself into thirst - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
Sing against her thirsty stones - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"
Joy sufficient for my life-old thirst - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
The pressure of our thirsty lips - George Martin "Marguerite"
Aurelian's soldiers swept the thirsty sands - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Eternity will quench your thirst - Edgar Lee Masters "Mirage of the Desert"
A gleaming lake haunting your thirst - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege" [2]
Such Olympian thirst assuage - Louis J. McQuilland "Old Friends, Old Books, Old Wines"
To teach philosophers the thirst of thieves - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
His breath of instant thirst - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
By its craven thirsts and fears distraught - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Not expecting to be crushed by thirst - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
The begging of so many thirsts - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
Thirst for wind and open space - Christopher Morley "At the Dog Show"
Boots worn out by the thirsty roads - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid
Beside the thistle's thirst - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Thirst defines my country - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid
Golden tongue nourished on thirst - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips - Pablo Neruda "Morning VI" transl. by Mark Eisner
Behind thirsty tigers - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Chair" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney
A fruit from the thirst-tree - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
A bottle filled with thirsty salt - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With lips invaded by thirst - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
More than curses for the thirsty hyenas - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
A thirst that wanders - Hoa Nguyen "Ficus Carica Sonnet"
And quench thy salty thirst anew - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Like a red thirst - Mary Oliver "The Deer"
Many a tortured life is thirsting for a cooling draught - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
My random turnstile of thirst - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
And to fill with light the thirsty - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
For the thirsting flowers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud"
How dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
The roots of thirst - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"
Constantly thirsty in a dry land - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Destiny"
Quench ten thousand Stygian thirsts - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Oasis"
Shorn of dreams and free of thirst - George Sterling "The Cynic"
Or quench their starry thirst - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
My eyes are dying of thirst - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 152: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Allays the immortal thirst it cannot slake - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Rise like thirsty thunder - John Updike "New York City"
Thirsty memory drinks deep - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
The way thirst holds water - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
Drowned from too much thirst - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Made thirst seem bitter-sweet - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"
With what deep thirst we quicken - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"
What anchors us to this thirst - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Weathers the white earth's thirst - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
The first rest of a thirstless journey - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Woman"
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Go to Potential Titles: Food - Eating and Drinking (mostly verbs) [category].
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