Potential Titles: Passion
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somethingdarkerindissoluble as blood impassioned - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Whose lives were hallowed by impassioned song - Geoffrey Dearmer "We Poets of the Proud Old Lineage"
Impassioned little minstrel of the cage - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
A cause quilted with passion - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
Repeat Nietzsche's recurring passion - Etel Adnan "Night"
And wrought with prophetic passion - "American Parody of Swinburne's 'The Creation of Man'"
Haunt the place where passions reign - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
Passion at every turning - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
From passion's lures exiled - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Passion a snare to hope - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
On that first hill of passion - Aliki Barnstone "Jack's Defeat Creek"
Neither peril nor passion intrude - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"
Ghost of an old passion - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
The dusty passion of the streets - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
In the heavenly wilds of all the passions - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"
Bids the stream of passion stand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Though the tyrant passions strive - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
That I might find a passion wholly of the mind - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
The mad wine of passion - Otto Leland Bohanan "Villanelle"
Her hunger of desolate passion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 10"
In passion's suppliant sea - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 35"
Which so whirls in passion's wind - Charlotte Bronte "Preference"
A passionate music stirs without her walls - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
The passion of our grief - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
When passion's course was free - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"
To tame the whirlwind of the passions - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The passion and the power to roam - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Tread those reviving passions down - Lord Byron "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"
Her adamantine passions - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"
In Passion's red arrayed - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
And passion's storms a wilder scene - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
In the passion of his praise - Lucille Clifton "dog's god"
Passions you have known in dreams - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Drink the sunset's dying passion - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Love not consumed in passion's heart - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
On your passion's frigid chest - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Hide your passion from the moon - Olive Custance "Dance Song"
And passion's dark'ning storms he never fears - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"
Nightingales wasted their passion on my sleep - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"
Froze his passion with a heart of stone - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Passion's fire alone that draws him - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
In a burning passion caught - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Allow no cloud or passion to usurp - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
The pomp of all passions passed - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
The passion of my heart compressed - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"
Her eyes must meet our passion - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
Passion's wide and shoreless sea - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"
Of passion pale and amber-kissed - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
All the tendrils of your passion furled - Max Eastman "A Praiseful Complaint"
Your small tapering flame of passion - Max Eastman "A Visit"
The Red Sea of mine own passion - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"
With sudden passion languishing - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
From the poison cup of passion - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Flees the passion of our eyes - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Your passion high and proud - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
With bolder passion the bitter day endowed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
A springtime passion for the earth - Robert Frost "Putting in the Seed"
By off'rings high to demon passions - "The Ghost of Chatham"
In my hand of passion and thought - Louis Golding "The Quest"
That battles with the passions hand to hand - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The hour of passion's unforgotten tryst - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
The hour of thy dread passion - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"
Warped by its own bad passions - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
With passions of skies - F.W. Harvey "'Local Fatalities Are Reported'"
Covered nest of passions - Charles Heavysege "Magnanimous and Mean"
Which passion's breath could blight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The stormy tide of passions - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
And call each wayward passion - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Each departing passion's force - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
Each passion from its cell profound - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
A passion for small streams - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Middle Creek, W. Va."
Deep and wayward passion - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
An unruly and subversive passion - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"
A chaos of fresh passion - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Became to me a passion and a dream - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Through passion into thought - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
Their passion and ire softening now - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Solitary griefs, desolate passions, aching hours - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"
Passions that struggle to live in dreams - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Actions of rage and passion - John Keats "Hyperion"
Swim in eddying whirls of passion - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"
Passions which the Reins have broke - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
Each loud passion of the mind - Henry King "The Dirge"
My spirit swift with passion - Archibald Lampman "Passion"
With jewels of passion once broken through - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
In the whirl of seething passions - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Lets Passion's loosened elements fly - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"
Less swayed by savage passion - Amy Levy "Medea"
Bear zones of tropic passion - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
The vapors bred by Passion - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"
Passion of the silk - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
To hold our passions in eclipse - Percy MacKaye "American Neutrality"
Gave him passion's lily cup - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Lust and passion and clay - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"
Using their passions as his tool - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"
Proud and perilous passion - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
Wild passions sleeping like oblivious kings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"
Too tender for all the passions - Claude McKay "O Word I Love to Sing"
A charm evil passions to quell - William P. M'Kenzie "Gabrielle"
Recall those oaths when passion prayed - H.P. McKnight "Hope--Eternity"
Like passion soothed to rest - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
Troubled passions toss the mind - George Meredith "Earth's Secret"
To hear that lonely passion of the rain - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
The wandering passion of our feet - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The wounds of worn passions she brings - William Moore "Dusk Song"
A storm of warring passions - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
Burnt by Passion's whirlwinds - Lewis Morris "Vendredi Saint"
With passion fine as flame - Ethel Allen Murphy "The Angel of Thought (Suggested by a Fra Angelico Angel)"
From passion's impregnable pearl - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (12)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The storms of deep contending passions - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
With its sweet clamor of passion - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"
Taking some wild passion by the throat - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Rife with passion and hate - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
Ghosts of passions burnt out - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Mists of passion dimmed my sight - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"
Declare all passions obsolete - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Weighed with satiate passion's power - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
No passion of remembrance - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
The petted passion and the shallow dream - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"
The small passion of your footsteps - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"
Blackened with passion and woe - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Stirred by Passion's stormy wave - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Hard on the track of passion - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Blow Returned"
Old foundations where the baleful passions sleep - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"
By fantastic wiles persuade the passions - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Passion in our secret veins - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Applied her passion like a hot iron sword - Bianca Stone "Emily Dickinson"
Out of the fury and the fires of mortal passion - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"
Transient passion with its stains and stings - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
A passion that Time has crowned - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
Announce your passion to the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 90: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Seething always with passion and pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A passion of thought set free - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
As burns the passion of the rose - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
Madly had he drunk at passion's fount - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The Pelican of Passion feeds - F.W. Thomas "A Slighted Woman"
Wild with passion's rains - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
All passions' depths he only can reveal - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"
Passions writ in hieroglyphs of gold - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Trapezes that our passion frenzies - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Spendthrift of passion in love's bankruptcy - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"
The smoke of fire-spangled passion - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
Unknown passion of each flaming star - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
Exotic passions and uncanny bliss - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
The passion of the universe - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Sweet Passion's inward storms - Charles William Wallace "Madrigal"
The half-hope and passion unexpressed - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
The passion of heaven spent - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
From which this thrilling passion flows - John Hall Wheelock "Tchaikovsky: Fifth Symphony"
Felt the fire of passion's sway - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Mirror my wildest passions - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"
Haunted me like a passion - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
If stately passions in me burn - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
The season of passion forget us - W.B. Yeats "The Falling of the Leaves"
When an immortal passion breathes - W.B. Yeats "The Travail of Passion"
Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
With strong yearning and passionate pain - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Still passionate beyond the will - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
Passionate as the rose of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
With passionate music to enthrall - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
Call on the bluebird to deliver your passionate pleas - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
The passionate wonder of your forest - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
The darkening cynosure of passionate youth - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]
The passionate wind of spring - Amy Levy "The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz"
The nightingale in his most passionate mood - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
The passionate hands of the sun - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"
Pensive, passionate child of song - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The passionate pleasure of motion - Alfonsina Storni "Running Water" (translated by Muna Lee)
Wrecked hope and passionate pain - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Sprouting passionately as neglected gardens do - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
Bore along the passion-flood of years - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
The clock's never ceasing and passionless chime - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
Be passionless in the room - Richard Hughes "The Image"
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Whose lives were hallowed by impassioned song - Geoffrey Dearmer "We Poets of the Proud Old Lineage"
Impassioned little minstrel of the cage - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
A cause quilted with passion - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
Repeat Nietzsche's recurring passion - Etel Adnan "Night"
And wrought with prophetic passion - "American Parody of Swinburne's 'The Creation of Man'"
Haunt the place where passions reign - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
Passion at every turning - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
From passion's lures exiled - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Passion a snare to hope - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
On that first hill of passion - Aliki Barnstone "Jack's Defeat Creek"
Neither peril nor passion intrude - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"
Ghost of an old passion - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
The dusty passion of the streets - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
In the heavenly wilds of all the passions - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"
Bids the stream of passion stand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Though the tyrant passions strive - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
That I might find a passion wholly of the mind - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
The mad wine of passion - Otto Leland Bohanan "Villanelle"
Her hunger of desolate passion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 10"
In passion's suppliant sea - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 35"
Which so whirls in passion's wind - Charlotte Bronte "Preference"
A passionate music stirs without her walls - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
The passion of our grief - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
When passion's course was free - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"
To tame the whirlwind of the passions - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The passion and the power to roam - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Tread those reviving passions down - Lord Byron "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"
Her adamantine passions - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"
In Passion's red arrayed - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
And passion's storms a wilder scene - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
In the passion of his praise - Lucille Clifton "dog's god"
Passions you have known in dreams - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Drink the sunset's dying passion - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Love not consumed in passion's heart - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
On your passion's frigid chest - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Hide your passion from the moon - Olive Custance "Dance Song"
And passion's dark'ning storms he never fears - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"
Nightingales wasted their passion on my sleep - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"
Froze his passion with a heart of stone - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Passion's fire alone that draws him - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
In a burning passion caught - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Allow no cloud or passion to usurp - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
The pomp of all passions passed - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
The passion of my heart compressed - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"
Her eyes must meet our passion - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
Passion's wide and shoreless sea - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"
Of passion pale and amber-kissed - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
All the tendrils of your passion furled - Max Eastman "A Praiseful Complaint"
Your small tapering flame of passion - Max Eastman "A Visit"
The Red Sea of mine own passion - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"
With sudden passion languishing - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
From the poison cup of passion - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Flees the passion of our eyes - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Your passion high and proud - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
With bolder passion the bitter day endowed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
A springtime passion for the earth - Robert Frost "Putting in the Seed"
By off'rings high to demon passions - "The Ghost of Chatham"
In my hand of passion and thought - Louis Golding "The Quest"
That battles with the passions hand to hand - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The hour of passion's unforgotten tryst - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
The hour of thy dread passion - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"
Warped by its own bad passions - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
With passions of skies - F.W. Harvey "'Local Fatalities Are Reported'"
Covered nest of passions - Charles Heavysege "Magnanimous and Mean"
Which passion's breath could blight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The stormy tide of passions - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
And call each wayward passion - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Each departing passion's force - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
Each passion from its cell profound - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
A passion for small streams - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Middle Creek, W. Va."
Deep and wayward passion - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
An unruly and subversive passion - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"
A chaos of fresh passion - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Became to me a passion and a dream - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Through passion into thought - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
Their passion and ire softening now - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Solitary griefs, desolate passions, aching hours - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"
Passions that struggle to live in dreams - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Actions of rage and passion - John Keats "Hyperion"
Swim in eddying whirls of passion - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"
Passions which the Reins have broke - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
Each loud passion of the mind - Henry King "The Dirge"
My spirit swift with passion - Archibald Lampman "Passion"
With jewels of passion once broken through - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
In the whirl of seething passions - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Lets Passion's loosened elements fly - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"
Less swayed by savage passion - Amy Levy "Medea"
Bear zones of tropic passion - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
The vapors bred by Passion - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"
Passion of the silk - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
To hold our passions in eclipse - Percy MacKaye "American Neutrality"
Gave him passion's lily cup - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Lust and passion and clay - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"
Using their passions as his tool - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"
Proud and perilous passion - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
Wild passions sleeping like oblivious kings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"
Too tender for all the passions - Claude McKay "O Word I Love to Sing"
A charm evil passions to quell - William P. M'Kenzie "Gabrielle"
Recall those oaths when passion prayed - H.P. McKnight "Hope--Eternity"
Like passion soothed to rest - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
Troubled passions toss the mind - George Meredith "Earth's Secret"
To hear that lonely passion of the rain - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
The wandering passion of our feet - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The wounds of worn passions she brings - William Moore "Dusk Song"
A storm of warring passions - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
Burnt by Passion's whirlwinds - Lewis Morris "Vendredi Saint"
With passion fine as flame - Ethel Allen Murphy "The Angel of Thought (Suggested by a Fra Angelico Angel)"
From passion's impregnable pearl - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (12)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The storms of deep contending passions - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
With its sweet clamor of passion - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"
Taking some wild passion by the throat - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Rife with passion and hate - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
Ghosts of passions burnt out - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Mists of passion dimmed my sight - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"
Declare all passions obsolete - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Weighed with satiate passion's power - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
No passion of remembrance - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
The petted passion and the shallow dream - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"
The small passion of your footsteps - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"
Blackened with passion and woe - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Stirred by Passion's stormy wave - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Hard on the track of passion - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Blow Returned"
Old foundations where the baleful passions sleep - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"
By fantastic wiles persuade the passions - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Passion in our secret veins - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Applied her passion like a hot iron sword - Bianca Stone "Emily Dickinson"
Out of the fury and the fires of mortal passion - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"
Transient passion with its stains and stings - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
A passion that Time has crowned - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
Announce your passion to the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 90: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Seething always with passion and pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A passion of thought set free - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
As burns the passion of the rose - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
Madly had he drunk at passion's fount - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The Pelican of Passion feeds - F.W. Thomas "A Slighted Woman"
Wild with passion's rains - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
All passions' depths he only can reveal - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"
Passions writ in hieroglyphs of gold - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Trapezes that our passion frenzies - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Spendthrift of passion in love's bankruptcy - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"
The smoke of fire-spangled passion - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
Unknown passion of each flaming star - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
Exotic passions and uncanny bliss - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
The passion of the universe - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Sweet Passion's inward storms - Charles William Wallace "Madrigal"
The half-hope and passion unexpressed - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
The passion of heaven spent - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
From which this thrilling passion flows - John Hall Wheelock "Tchaikovsky: Fifth Symphony"
Felt the fire of passion's sway - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Mirror my wildest passions - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"
Haunted me like a passion - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
If stately passions in me burn - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
The season of passion forget us - W.B. Yeats "The Falling of the Leaves"
When an immortal passion breathes - W.B. Yeats "The Travail of Passion"
Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
With strong yearning and passionate pain - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Still passionate beyond the will - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
Passionate as the rose of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
With passionate music to enthrall - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
Call on the bluebird to deliver your passionate pleas - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
The passionate wonder of your forest - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
The darkening cynosure of passionate youth - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]
The passionate wind of spring - Amy Levy "The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz"
The nightingale in his most passionate mood - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
The passionate hands of the sun - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"
Pensive, passionate child of song - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The passionate pleasure of motion - Alfonsina Storni "Running Water" (translated by Muna Lee)
Wrecked hope and passionate pain - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Sprouting passionately as neglected gardens do - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
Bore along the passion-flood of years - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
The clock's never ceasing and passionless chime - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
Be passionless in the room - Richard Hughes "The Image"
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