Potential Titles: Desire
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somethingdarkerA unique river of desire - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"
When desire becomes a fugitive - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"
To give us knowledge of achieved desire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
This desire for her staggering breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
A misguided advertisement for new desires - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
At the corner of expectation and desire - Howard Altmann "After Hours"
Exchange avowals and desires - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Besieged by the mind and desire - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Life in the movies"
Enjoy the fruition of our desires - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Attains his desire by inquiry - Yusuf Has Hajib Balasaghuni "Wisdom of Royal Glory (1) [excerpts from Kutadgu Bilig]" transl. by Ajinur Setiwaldi
While Guilt and Desire wrangled - James Baldwin "Guilt, Desire and Love"
Awareness of thought as desire - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
As transient strangers of desire - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
My dark heart's deep desiring - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited
Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited
Desire requires memory - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
A spring which desires a fountain - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
That blasts like the breath of fulfilled Desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
Trembled in their fierce desire for air - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Called Desire from his lightning - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
In one vast hunger of desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Where the moons of desire float anchored - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"
When intent aligns with an ardent desire - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"
The raw desire to articulate - Brian Blanchfield "One First Try and then Another"
Never phrased what he desired - Robert Bly "My Father at Eighty-Five"
Turning all desire into light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Blue-Bird"
Stole the simple blush of my desire - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Changed to wounds by the desiring heart - Maxwell Bodenheim "Metaphysical Elizabeth"
Desire only to be distinct - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
Engines of desire roaming the lost highways - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Escaping an obedience to desire - William Brewer "Relapse Psalm"
Silver-speaking mirrors of desire - Robert Bridges "Ode to Music"
Hurry by to the wind's desire - Vera M. Brittain "Boar's Hill, October, 1919"
In the principalities of desire - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait with Self-Pity"
Robbed of a dream's desire - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
Cast my anchor of desire deep in unknown eternity - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"
A steadfast looking of desire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The songs of their desire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The ruffling pride of fierce desires - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
When blind desire ran free - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LI. First Reading. Love in Youth and Age" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Complete destruction of the heart's desire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Each stride like a mathematics toward desire - Anthony Butts "Thin Places"
The bridegrooms of desire - Anthony Butts "Triptych"
Paint their dreams of dead desire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
The mire and the fen of our nameless desires - Roger Casement "The Irish Language"
Desires destiny as mutable - Wo Chan "the shoes"
The word of the world's desire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Syntax is the bacteria of desire - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
Of desire and gasoline - Gabrielle Civil "19th Birthday in Paris"
A guest to every heart's desire - John Clare "The Old Year"
In a need beyond desire - Lucille Clifton "1st picture searching for the ox"
ribbon of hunger and desire - Lucille Clifton "scar"
Like the ghost of all my desires - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"
Amid such choruses of desire - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"
The fierce inordinate desire - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Tired of choosing desire - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"
Holy and relentless desire - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Rosengarten"
Who plead for their heart's desire - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
Desire's gale attempts new war - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster
Before desire shall meet desire - Adelaide Crapsey "Birth-Moment"
Rebuked a moment's vain desire - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
City of sorrow and desire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"
Clouded by smoke and desire - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
The thirst of infinite desire possessed me - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
On the full current of desire - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
Into the snap-dragon throat of desire - Mitchell Dawson "Asperities: Teresa"
For whom my heart is kindled in desire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Now all that I desired so dear is won - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Of desire attain at last the height - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
With the desire of growing lilacs - Jose Hernandez Diaz "Hey,"
Your desire knit to storm - Sharon Dolin "Evening Storm"
Casting her vote for desire - Chris Dombrowski "The Congressman's Daughter"
Wild with a measureless desire - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
All April's quick desire - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"
This waste of vain desire - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
That gravely murmurs meek desires - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
A stalk of green panic and desire - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
The limitations of desire - Stephen Dunn "A Circus of Needs"
Potent as the rays of pure desire - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Disentangle instinct from desire - Katherine Edgren "Burying"
Mixing memory and desire - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Gazing on the seven desires - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
A crown of glittering desire - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
In the kitchen of desire - Elaine Equi "Take-Out Fantasy"
To finesse choice out of desire - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"
Replace desire with meaning - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Amid the maelstroms of desire - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"
A cloud of one desire - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Right to name my desires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Out of the roots of my desire - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"
The targets their mouths desire - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"
Always there is this unquenched desire - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
When the desire of song had gone - John Freeman "Waiting"
The great harvest I myself desired - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
Now from having ridden out desire - Robert Frost "Blue-Butterfly Day"
From what I've tasted of desire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
With old desire of day - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
Burn through their masks of radiant desire - Jenny George "Sunflowers"
Loneliness and all forms of desire - Dana Gioia "Prayer at Winter Solstice"
Finding a place where fear leads to desire - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
The smoky lamps of our desire - Louis Golding "Cold Stars"
With rains of unrevealed desire - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
A fantasy cobbled out of desire - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
Have reached the end of my desire - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet I (from Farewell)"
The frenzy of too rash desires - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"
An enemy of their own desires - Faylita Hicks "The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage"
Our endless desire to grasp things - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Walked past pines to their hearts' desire - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
The querulous insistent chatter of desire - Tony Hoagland "Disappointment"
Imposed upon desire - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
People who desire exceptional experience - Chloe Honum "St. Mary's Home for Unwed Mothers in Orahuhu, Auckland"
Ecstasy distilled from old desire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"
An upward agony of undefined desires - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Reach every state mortals desire - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"
Stood some place beyond desire - Mark Irwin "Purple"
Who measures desire by stillness - Jenny Johnson "Pedal"
About the home of his desire - Lionel Johnson "Plato in London"
Of a Saint's fulfilled desires - Lionel Johnson "Saint Columba"
Flame of one long, lone desire - Lionel Johnson "To a Spanish Friend"
Desire to inscribe a comet's orbit - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Each desired to be devoured - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"
No desire to leave the valley - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
Eclipsed by something like desire - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"
Logarithmic function of desire and fulfillment - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
From Hope's intense desire go - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"
More out of habit than desire - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"
With all the speed desire can make - Henry King "The Exequy"
How desire vibrates within us - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Desire a simulacrum of itself - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
And upward with the like desire - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
A habit backed in desire - Rachel Levitsky "Audience"
entrenched in their desire to flee - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
Every verb desires to be a noun - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Between desire and always - Audre Lorde "Echoes"
Thought that success always followed desire - Amy Lowell "The Fool Errant"
Hoards of torn desires, broken joys - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"
The trappings of desires disguised as needs - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
The weight of all that I desired - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "A Pilgrim"
First deserve and then desire - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 2"
Worships his own desire - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
As though your desires mean nothing - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
And Desire, on Fever's arm - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Maps desire's coordinates - Shara McCallum "Fury"
The difference between sacrifice and desire - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
To bend and barter at desire's call - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"
The wakeful watch of envy and desire - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sailor Boy"
Dead as Ashtaroth's desire - Louis J. McQuilland "Immortal"
Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
So in soul's desire - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Desires with hampered wings - Alice Meynell "Free Will"
Mirth and youth and young desire - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
Shedding desire's heavy robes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Disbelief"
A desperate feeding of desire - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"
Wear a coat of hope and desire - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
The myriad throated dragon of desire - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
Desire in the upper leaves - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Desire with the storm inside - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
Church of their bones' desire - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Unless desire can lure us deeper - D. Nurkse "The Assassination"
What to call this sharpest desire - Mary Oliver "Something"
Has a kiss of desire on the lips - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
Peace is the soul's desire - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
Till lust and murder gorge their fierce desire - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
To step into our desires as if they were owed us - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
United solely in their desire - Carl Phillips "Captivity"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Desire falls like black lightning - Ezra Pound "The Spring"
Figured to be done with desire - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
All bright jealous objects of desire - D.A. Powell "To Last"
At the edge of a wrecked desire - Lynn Powell "Feedback for the Muse"
Grown tense with creation's desire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
At the fountain of unquenchable desire - Charles Rafferty "A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Taking from his rival fear and desire - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Could train a tree for what desire anticipates - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Desire in still perfect hours - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
The desire of this strong North - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
From my full heart's supreme desires - Alice Wellington Rollins "If I Could Know, Love"
When the poor heart seizes its desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "Longing"
And the lily forget the desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"
Of pale desire in incompleteness - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]
The New Moon reviving old desires - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
I had twenty thousand desires - Rumi "Thou Art the Soul of the World" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
All the early stations desire - Kay Ryan "Latents"
Lead to the soul's desire - "Sacrifice"
kneeling before repressed desires - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
When you ask what is my desire - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"
Searches through the mazes of desire - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
Before all else was desire - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
Desire and regret live side by side - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Whose twin mouths gape with venom & desire - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"
Slakes desire with liquid fire - Frederick George Scott "The Sting of Death"
The first my thought, the other my desire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
No horse with my desire keep pace - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LI"
To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"
A desire not to disturb the air - Richard Siken "Little Beast"
To be finished with desire - Aaron Smith "Boston"
The pale and sorrowful desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Mouth of starry proud desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
Forgotten then of Time's desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The sinking stars desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
The wide desire of kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Less than the measure of desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
And its burden of vain desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
As a friend long desired - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Our strange souls and curious desires - Edith Sodergran "Pain" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahokas
The old egg of my desire - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Buoyed by the soul's desire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Beauty for a moth's desire - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
The cities of accurst desire - George Sterling "The Swoon"
From what desire - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
Insinuations of desire - Wallace Stevens "The Ordinary Women"
The final fortune of their desire - Wallace Stevens "The World as Meditation"
A bird-wing desire - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Your old foolish judgments of desire - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Of eyes parched with desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 20: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Brandishing flowerbuds of desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Seized by some restless new desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Desire branches like mycelium - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"
A blade against the ribbon of desire - Arthur Sze "Rock Paper Scissors"
Darken slowly with a far desire - Sara Teasdale "To E"
Unburdened by desire - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
The lonely monster of desire - Michael Torres "Pockets"
Sterile as the arms of my desire - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
In rags of old desires - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"
Frozen monuments of high desires - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Faintly on the stone symbols of his desire - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
More than a desire - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Far-flung blossoms of desire - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
all desire fostered among us - Asiya Wadud "number four"
Desire a particular flavor of quark - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
Infested me with a ruinous desire - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Talked to spend desire - John Wieners "In Public"
Going into the deep desire of distance - Charles Wright "Waterfalls"
Some knavery in desire - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Not desiring to offer war - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Half the songs of my desire - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
As the wave desired - Adam Zagajewski "Mandelstam in Theodosia"
Demons for every form of desire - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #2: The Rec' Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
In a whitened time that fades desire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver
Not yet desirous of relief - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
Weary of undesired joys - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"
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When desire becomes a fugitive - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"
To give us knowledge of achieved desire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
This desire for her staggering breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
A misguided advertisement for new desires - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
At the corner of expectation and desire - Howard Altmann "After Hours"
Exchange avowals and desires - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Besieged by the mind and desire - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Life in the movies"
Enjoy the fruition of our desires - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Attains his desire by inquiry - Yusuf Has Hajib Balasaghuni "Wisdom of Royal Glory (1) [excerpts from Kutadgu Bilig]" transl. by Ajinur Setiwaldi
While Guilt and Desire wrangled - James Baldwin "Guilt, Desire and Love"
Awareness of thought as desire - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
As transient strangers of desire - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
My dark heart's deep desiring - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited
Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited
Desire requires memory - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
A spring which desires a fountain - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
That blasts like the breath of fulfilled Desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
Trembled in their fierce desire for air - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Called Desire from his lightning - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
In one vast hunger of desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Where the moons of desire float anchored - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"
When intent aligns with an ardent desire - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"
The raw desire to articulate - Brian Blanchfield "One First Try and then Another"
Never phrased what he desired - Robert Bly "My Father at Eighty-Five"
Turning all desire into light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Blue-Bird"
Stole the simple blush of my desire - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Changed to wounds by the desiring heart - Maxwell Bodenheim "Metaphysical Elizabeth"
Desire only to be distinct - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
Engines of desire roaming the lost highways - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Escaping an obedience to desire - William Brewer "Relapse Psalm"
Silver-speaking mirrors of desire - Robert Bridges "Ode to Music"
Hurry by to the wind's desire - Vera M. Brittain "Boar's Hill, October, 1919"
In the principalities of desire - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait with Self-Pity"
Robbed of a dream's desire - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
Cast my anchor of desire deep in unknown eternity - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"
A steadfast looking of desire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The songs of their desire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The ruffling pride of fierce desires - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
When blind desire ran free - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LI. First Reading. Love in Youth and Age" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Complete destruction of the heart's desire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Each stride like a mathematics toward desire - Anthony Butts "Thin Places"
The bridegrooms of desire - Anthony Butts "Triptych"
Paint their dreams of dead desire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
The mire and the fen of our nameless desires - Roger Casement "The Irish Language"
Desires destiny as mutable - Wo Chan "the shoes"
The word of the world's desire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Syntax is the bacteria of desire - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
Of desire and gasoline - Gabrielle Civil "19th Birthday in Paris"
A guest to every heart's desire - John Clare "The Old Year"
In a need beyond desire - Lucille Clifton "1st picture searching for the ox"
ribbon of hunger and desire - Lucille Clifton "scar"
Like the ghost of all my desires - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"
Amid such choruses of desire - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"
The fierce inordinate desire - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Tired of choosing desire - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"
Holy and relentless desire - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Rosengarten"
Who plead for their heart's desire - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
Desire's gale attempts new war - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster
Before desire shall meet desire - Adelaide Crapsey "Birth-Moment"
Rebuked a moment's vain desire - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
City of sorrow and desire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"
Clouded by smoke and desire - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
The thirst of infinite desire possessed me - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
On the full current of desire - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
Into the snap-dragon throat of desire - Mitchell Dawson "Asperities: Teresa"
For whom my heart is kindled in desire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Now all that I desired so dear is won - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Of desire attain at last the height - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
With the desire of growing lilacs - Jose Hernandez Diaz "Hey,"
Your desire knit to storm - Sharon Dolin "Evening Storm"
Casting her vote for desire - Chris Dombrowski "The Congressman's Daughter"
Wild with a measureless desire - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
All April's quick desire - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"
This waste of vain desire - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
That gravely murmurs meek desires - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
A stalk of green panic and desire - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
The limitations of desire - Stephen Dunn "A Circus of Needs"
Potent as the rays of pure desire - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Disentangle instinct from desire - Katherine Edgren "Burying"
Mixing memory and desire - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Gazing on the seven desires - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
A crown of glittering desire - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
In the kitchen of desire - Elaine Equi "Take-Out Fantasy"
To finesse choice out of desire - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"
Replace desire with meaning - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Amid the maelstroms of desire - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"
A cloud of one desire - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Right to name my desires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Out of the roots of my desire - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"
The targets their mouths desire - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"
Always there is this unquenched desire - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
When the desire of song had gone - John Freeman "Waiting"
The great harvest I myself desired - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
Now from having ridden out desire - Robert Frost "Blue-Butterfly Day"
From what I've tasted of desire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
With old desire of day - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
Burn through their masks of radiant desire - Jenny George "Sunflowers"
Loneliness and all forms of desire - Dana Gioia "Prayer at Winter Solstice"
Finding a place where fear leads to desire - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
The smoky lamps of our desire - Louis Golding "Cold Stars"
With rains of unrevealed desire - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
A fantasy cobbled out of desire - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
Have reached the end of my desire - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet I (from Farewell)"
The frenzy of too rash desires - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"
An enemy of their own desires - Faylita Hicks "The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage"
Our endless desire to grasp things - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Walked past pines to their hearts' desire - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
The querulous insistent chatter of desire - Tony Hoagland "Disappointment"
Imposed upon desire - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
People who desire exceptional experience - Chloe Honum "St. Mary's Home for Unwed Mothers in Orahuhu, Auckland"
Ecstasy distilled from old desire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"
An upward agony of undefined desires - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Reach every state mortals desire - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"
Stood some place beyond desire - Mark Irwin "Purple"
Who measures desire by stillness - Jenny Johnson "Pedal"
About the home of his desire - Lionel Johnson "Plato in London"
Of a Saint's fulfilled desires - Lionel Johnson "Saint Columba"
Flame of one long, lone desire - Lionel Johnson "To a Spanish Friend"
Desire to inscribe a comet's orbit - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Each desired to be devoured - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"
No desire to leave the valley - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
Eclipsed by something like desire - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"
Logarithmic function of desire and fulfillment - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
From Hope's intense desire go - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"
More out of habit than desire - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"
With all the speed desire can make - Henry King "The Exequy"
How desire vibrates within us - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Desire a simulacrum of itself - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
And upward with the like desire - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
A habit backed in desire - Rachel Levitsky "Audience"
entrenched in their desire to flee - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
Every verb desires to be a noun - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Between desire and always - Audre Lorde "Echoes"
Thought that success always followed desire - Amy Lowell "The Fool Errant"
Hoards of torn desires, broken joys - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"
The trappings of desires disguised as needs - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
The weight of all that I desired - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "A Pilgrim"
First deserve and then desire - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 2"
Worships his own desire - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
As though your desires mean nothing - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
And Desire, on Fever's arm - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Maps desire's coordinates - Shara McCallum "Fury"
The difference between sacrifice and desire - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
To bend and barter at desire's call - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"
The wakeful watch of envy and desire - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sailor Boy"
Dead as Ashtaroth's desire - Louis J. McQuilland "Immortal"
Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
So in soul's desire - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Desires with hampered wings - Alice Meynell "Free Will"
Mirth and youth and young desire - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
Shedding desire's heavy robes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Disbelief"
A desperate feeding of desire - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"
Wear a coat of hope and desire - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
The myriad throated dragon of desire - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
Desire in the upper leaves - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Desire with the storm inside - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
Church of their bones' desire - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Unless desire can lure us deeper - D. Nurkse "The Assassination"
What to call this sharpest desire - Mary Oliver "Something"
Has a kiss of desire on the lips - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
Peace is the soul's desire - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
Till lust and murder gorge their fierce desire - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
To step into our desires as if they were owed us - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
United solely in their desire - Carl Phillips "Captivity"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Desire falls like black lightning - Ezra Pound "The Spring"
Figured to be done with desire - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
All bright jealous objects of desire - D.A. Powell "To Last"
At the edge of a wrecked desire - Lynn Powell "Feedback for the Muse"
Grown tense with creation's desire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
At the fountain of unquenchable desire - Charles Rafferty "A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Taking from his rival fear and desire - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Could train a tree for what desire anticipates - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Desire in still perfect hours - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
The desire of this strong North - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
From my full heart's supreme desires - Alice Wellington Rollins "If I Could Know, Love"
When the poor heart seizes its desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "Longing"
And the lily forget the desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"
Of pale desire in incompleteness - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]
The New Moon reviving old desires - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
I had twenty thousand desires - Rumi "Thou Art the Soul of the World" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
All the early stations desire - Kay Ryan "Latents"
Lead to the soul's desire - "Sacrifice"
kneeling before repressed desires - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
When you ask what is my desire - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"
Searches through the mazes of desire - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
Before all else was desire - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
Desire and regret live side by side - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Whose twin mouths gape with venom & desire - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"
Slakes desire with liquid fire - Frederick George Scott "The Sting of Death"
The first my thought, the other my desire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
No horse with my desire keep pace - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LI"
To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"
A desire not to disturb the air - Richard Siken "Little Beast"
To be finished with desire - Aaron Smith "Boston"
The pale and sorrowful desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Mouth of starry proud desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
Forgotten then of Time's desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The sinking stars desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
The wide desire of kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Less than the measure of desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
And its burden of vain desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
As a friend long desired - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Our strange souls and curious desires - Edith Sodergran "Pain" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahokas
The old egg of my desire - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Buoyed by the soul's desire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Beauty for a moth's desire - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
The cities of accurst desire - George Sterling "The Swoon"
From what desire - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
Insinuations of desire - Wallace Stevens "The Ordinary Women"
The final fortune of their desire - Wallace Stevens "The World as Meditation"
A bird-wing desire - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Your old foolish judgments of desire - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Of eyes parched with desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 20: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Brandishing flowerbuds of desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Seized by some restless new desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Desire branches like mycelium - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"
A blade against the ribbon of desire - Arthur Sze "Rock Paper Scissors"
Darken slowly with a far desire - Sara Teasdale "To E"
Unburdened by desire - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
The lonely monster of desire - Michael Torres "Pockets"
Sterile as the arms of my desire - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
In rags of old desires - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"
Frozen monuments of high desires - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Faintly on the stone symbols of his desire - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
More than a desire - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Far-flung blossoms of desire - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
all desire fostered among us - Asiya Wadud "number four"
Desire a particular flavor of quark - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
Infested me with a ruinous desire - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Talked to spend desire - John Wieners "In Public"
Going into the deep desire of distance - Charles Wright "Waterfalls"
Some knavery in desire - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Not desiring to offer war - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Half the songs of my desire - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
As the wave desired - Adam Zagajewski "Mandelstam in Theodosia"
Demons for every form of desire - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #2: The Rec' Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
In a whitened time that fades desire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver
Not yet desirous of relief - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
Weary of undesired joys - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"
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