Potential Titles: Grief

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Pull air over embers of grief - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Give grief her rooms to stalk - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The hips of this vast & immovable grief - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

Mistaking grief for strength - Elmaz Abinader "Shouldering the Sky"

The vessels of grief - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"

Where the autumn grieves - Harold Acton "Discoveries"

With the fragrance we call grief - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

Had poured him a bitter grief - Anna Akhmatova [Untitled] transl. by Robert Tracy

With grief upon grief returning - al-Khansa "[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]" transl. by Reynold A. Nicholson

Bought grief's lottery - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"

Long years of grief have frozen me cold and lonely - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"

Memories gnawed at the back of his grieving brain - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Grief bundled or coming loose - Alise Alousi "Back to School"

When the first news of grief reaches them - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

Allowed room for grief to burn him - Mouna Ammar "The Scent of Goodbye"

What is grief but a love that is too vast for us? - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

Wrought to veil you vanished grief - Auguste Angellier "Resignation" transl. by Henry van Dyke

The double burden of our grief - Auguste Angellier "Resignation" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Weeping for withered grief - Auguste Angellier "Tranquil Habit" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Bring and betoken toil and grief - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring

That mispronounces my grief - Fatimah Asghar "Land Where My Father Died"

The grief at the center of your dream - Margaret Atwood "Variation on the Word Sleep"

Will wear your cruelty into grief - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Bridge"

the latitude is measured out of grief - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

The shadowy realm where all is grief and gloom - B. "Two Pictures: Love Terrestrial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

That grieving is unkind - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"

Grieve every word lost - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

grief wakes the nucleus of the whole atom - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"

Grief and the mute universe - Mary Jo Bang "April Is Ending"

Sobbing knife turn in the neck of grief - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

An ocean of grief pressed into ovals - Mary Jo Bang "This Morning"

Merit badge in grief - Rachel Barenblat "Change"

The grief of staying apart - Rachel Barenblat "Fix"

Walking griefwards with his shadow - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sacrament"

Look for grief tomorrow - Ardelia Maria Barton "Do Not Borrow Trouble"

Without incurring the debt of grief - Ellen Bass "The Long Recovery"

And rock our griefs to sleep - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

The wan summons of a grieving fate - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Hung the doors with griefs - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Poised between love and grief - Sheila Black "The Earth"

Where grief alone would kill - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: Rosamund's Song of Hope"

Sink into the badger's grief - Robert Bly "How David Did Not Care"

Grieve in her sorrowing house - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"

Grieves for its waning power - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"

The forests of your grief - Geoffrey Brock "You Are Here"

Parasol of amber grief - Lucie Brock-Broido "Portrait of Lucy with Fine Nile Jar"

Obedient to the goad of grief - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Which will not dawn on grief and tears - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

The tide of grief would flow unchecked - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

And doubly will the dark world grieve - Emily Bronte "Stanzas [I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me]"

Winter sheds its grief in snow - Emily Bronte "Sympathy"

Vanished with a gray grief - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

May grief never spoil its hue - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"

This other species of grief - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"

Grief borne out under whittled stars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

I bleed and the sand grieves - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

Done with grief - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"

Boast no more in grief - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The passion of our grief - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The right of your own griefs - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Or grief's fantastic whim - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Sat grieving on her ancient throne - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"

No language could my grief define - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Regret"

The worm, the canker, and the grief - Lord Byron "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"

How easy to dismiss my grief - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"

Were strays of parting grief - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

Thought to fill my soul with grief - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Blend in the autumn's grief - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

Grief burns faster there - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"

Orchids curling outward beyond grief - Tina Chang "Color"

Its remaining wing is grief - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Ambition]"

The grieving speak a different language - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Friendships]"

Wildest grief grew inside out - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"

Grief is not the only geography - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"

Clumped grief of an old barrow - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"

Apes of kinship and grief - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

Grief runs in his veins - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene III"

Grieves because the world is old - Arthur Colton "Heirs of Time"

Of common share in grief - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"

That pale and grieving shore - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"

The grieved god came not again - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

For her first rain-drops grieves - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"

Container of all griefs - George Cronyn "Tasting the Earth"

Grief a perfume lodged in our throats - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

We grieved like the shadow that gives birth to worlds - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

A harp that grieves for life - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"

Through griefs of joy - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"

Serpent grief that coiled and threw - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

To grieve with our common friends - Jim Daniels "Making a Case for the Letter"

To lose the dogs of grief - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

The blue spinning record of grief - Jim Daniels "Treaty"

Expense of grief gains no remorse - Sir William Davenant "The Soldier Going to the Field"

The marrow of their ancient griefs - Benjamin De Casseres "The Protagonist"

From the torrent where my grief streamed - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman

Share grief to which all else is naught - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Informed by a faint harmonica grieving - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"

Grief for my elemental life - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Bisected now by bleaker griefs - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LV: Childish Griefs"

Grieving would be sin - Mary Mapes Dodge "Coming"

All things grieve her - Mary Mapes Dodge "Ten Kinds"

In the warrens of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Horizon like a querulous line of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Geology Lesson"

Towing her trailer of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Who could weep for lighter griefs - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Last of Six"

Grief is the constant - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"

Her grief to me is a fourfold fear - John Drinkwater "A Man's Daughter"

Expecting to meet grief on the trail - Cheryl Dumesnil "Lake Dharma"

Where brood the grieving skies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"

And grief came along for the cake - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"

Grief will ride in on the smallest of bodies - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"

And grief re-greens the sky - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 5. Broken"

Triumphant over grief and tears - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Cutting a deep trail of grief - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

Go to the great house of grief - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Papering over the cracked grief - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"

Thinks of grief in terms of distance - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"

Does grief pick those who are wounded? - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

As they exhaled their last grief - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

When grief was calm - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Thought I could live without grief - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"

The sounds of their own grief - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"

To the other side of grief - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"

Over age that darkens, and griefs that destroy - John Freeman "The Body"

Let me into your grief - Robert Frost "Home Burial"

So Eden sank to grief - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Pass out of utter grief - Robert Frost [untitled]

The dark and bitter flow of grief - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Grieving from the boughs - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Your grief always a marathon - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"

The blanched eye of our grief - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

Broken vows will vex and grieve - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"

A grief enchained the herds - Louis Golding "Peace"

Though the nightingale may grieve - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

That makes my grief her gain - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"

The secret of my grief - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

If there is a map for grief - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"

Grieve to appropriate degrees - Paul Guest "Post-Factual Love Poem"

Shatter mists of grief - Louise Imogen Guiney "Brook Farm"

As a reminder to grieve silently - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

A little more grief every day - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"

That breaks grief in half - Nathalie Handal "She"

Allowed to grieve alone - Nathalie Handal "She"

Pried from the earth with shovels of grief - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"

Your ceremony of grieving - Joy Harjo "The Story Wheel"

Who silently languish in grief's fearful night - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The ones that feast on grief - Robert Hass "Habits of Paradise"

Yet know the vanity of grief - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"

The heart weary of its grief - Terrance Hayes "Hide"

Of whatever grief calls itself - Terrance Hayes "Twenty Measures of Chitchat"

Now with grief and pain assailed - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The stern control of many a grief - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

Griefs for nature too intense - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

Voiceless years of night and grieving - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Shadows"

The wheel of gifts and grief - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

Griefs take shelter in the trees - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

Hear the muscled twist of grief - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"

The flight of griefs and exaltations - Conrad Hilberry "Talk on the Porch"

Even the bottomless spaces grieving - Edward Hirsch "Orphic Rites"

The grief of what hasn't changed yet - Jane Hirshfield "Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes"

Dwindled down with shame and grief - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Where the waters grieve - Norah M. Holland "A Storm at Night"

Company their grief with heavy tears - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

By the stern disciplines of grief - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Not knowing the taste of grief - Hsin Ch'i-chi "[When I Was Young]" transl. by Burton Watson

Fell grief her throbbing heart enthrals - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]

The boiling grief of my mother's prayers - Maria Ibarra-Frayre "Awareness"

The window itself blind with grief - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"

My grief a loose dam - K. Iver "Anti-Elegy"

With the same grief of living - Gary Jackson "Kansas"

Through all forms of grief and strife - Robinson Jeffers "To his Father"

Strange shapes and grieves ghosts - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"

In the center of grieving - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

If grief is a shining fruit - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

A keepsake of my savage grief - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

It grieved my heart to see you sail - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Imparting joy, suggesting grief - James Weldon Johnson "A Passing Melody"

Pushed grief under the railings - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

Solitary griefs, desolate passions, aching hours - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"

a new grief blooms in the garden - Camisha L. Jones "On Loss"

This grief with no name - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"

An ornament of grief - Patricia Spears Jones "May Perpetual Light Shine"

only the trees are allowed to grieve - Tanque R. Jones "Among the Oaks"

See the grief etched on my face - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"

Thrive until we grieve - Allison Joseph "Untethered"

I might pronounce like grief - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunataq"

Grieving on his rock under olive trees - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

That grief itself embalms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

And I have thought it died of grieving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

Touched the sacred springs of grief - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

some nights labour, some nights grieve - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Our grief a radiant gleam - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

From my Eden turn in grief - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"

The apples tumid with grief - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

Leave alike both grief and joy - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph

Sternly strive to conquer grief - Jan Kochanowski "Laments I" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Accounting for tides, currents, grief - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Unmoored by rage and grief - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

The grieved their tears forget - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

For easement after grief - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Grief is a forgotten guest - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

Whose griefs were written up in gold - Archibald Lampman "The Moon-Path"

Grief of farewell unspoken - Andrew Lang "Lost in Hades"

Through grief and loss made glorious - Lucy Larcom "November"

Stones still hold transfigured grief - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"

Grief with its footsteps slow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Measure my single grain of grief - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

With grief like a bandage around our heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"

To waste grief on ancient tragedies - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

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

When I was by a great grief stricken - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Will exact in grief and tears his pay - Lermontof "Why" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Where grief a shadow grows - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"

In deserted gardens fading orchids grieve - Li Ho "For the Examination at Ho-nan-fu: Songs of the Twelve Months (with Intercalary Month)" transl. by Burton Watson

A long road is grief enough - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson

To hold me in my grief - M.L. Liebler "One Ounce of Forgiveness"

My grief in a crushed delivery box - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

This lurid cage of lust and grief - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"

The endless innovations of grief - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"

Watch with grieved eyes - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"

To steal some fever from your grief - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Where grief is their first portion - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

A Gorgon grief may change me - Eric MacKay "Letter I. Prelude"

Of useless grief and rueing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"

My grief, my wounding and my woe - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

With perfume of shy grief - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley

Snowblind with grief - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

A lyric child of mystery and grief - Edwin Markham "The Elf Child"

The mark of some ancestral grief - Edwin Markham "In Death Valley"

This grief of tortured flowers - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"

Have her mouth of grief - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"

Marred in the mills of grief - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

The murmur of angels who grieve - George Martin "Street Waif"

Follow some Helen for her gift of grief - John Masefield "Ships"

These tidal griefs - Donna Masini "A Gate"

Kept this habit of his grief - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

Untouched of all my grief - Florence Ripley Mastin "Dust"

With grief and fury stung - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Splendid death untouched by grief - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

Words of rapture or grief - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"

The way old grief is gentle - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"

In any still-life of grief or reminiscence - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"

My uncle in grief - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"

No grief for them in the green Spring - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Mix me with your grief - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

Through alien grief and mirth - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet IV from Renascence and Other Poems

Antlers frozen with grief - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

The small, bitter hawks of grief - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Listening to a vanishing grief - Claire Millikin "Princess Coat"

Grief has not forgotten my name - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Stubborn grains of grief - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"

Break grief into islands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"

One lone heart for Summer silent grieves - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

A thousand grieving seeds - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"

The river of grief and wrong - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

Placed my grief in the mouth of language - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"

Filled with stone and grief and ash - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"

O'er hearts whose griefs were deepest - Mary E. Nealy "Dying in the Hospital" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Through grieving galleries of copper - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Of ghosts with grief and tail - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

The circles of grief turn pale - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

Nourished on stone and grief - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The father of grief or the guest of eternal anguish - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

When grief took to the roads - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

When earth is grieving for the vanished - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"

Thy swelling griefs control - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: IV. The Fourth or Ginger-Beer Hole"

Choose another grief - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"

Heard the tenor voice of grief - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"

Fold grief like a blanket - Mary Oliver "Work"

Accumulation of griefs - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Leaving Eden was not grief - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Love"

Alchemy of grief - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

That soothed the lingering grief of years - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

One grief to both impart - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Walked with grief - Dorothy Parker "Paths"

A rainbow thro' the mist of grief - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"

A shade of stifled grief - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

Grief, like the dark, lifts eventually - Carl Phillips "The Length of the Field"

Featureless winter of grief - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Cobwebs brushed aside in the full flare of grief - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"

The bitter bread of grief - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Our Daily Bread"

Grief lives a new life as devotion - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

A fixed sea floor of grief - Sina Queyras "Years"

Thy flower is writ of grief - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"

By the night of her own grief - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

Awake and rapt with grief - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Where the hues are atrophy and grief - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"

Grief-blind on ice - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

That grief invade not - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Unknown City"

Sorrows without grief - Luis J. Rodriguez "Fevered Shapes"

Black grief on the plains - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

A monsoon of grieving to do - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Would not grieve for Eden lost - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"

Desolation answering grief by grief - Christina Rossetti "Eve"

grief looks gorgeous in the face of harm - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

When we can't afford our grief - Janice Lobo Sapigao "There Will Be No Funeral"

To break open the air with your grief - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

Makes the floor weep and the ceiling grieve - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

The black dog of fanged grief - Teresa J. Scollon "The Garden"

Forcing itself through the pinhole of grief - Teresa J. Scollon "Words, Poems"

Make grief's length seem stronger - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

With grief and care the orphan only knows - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

My soul bowed down with grief and care - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Who am made one with grief - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

The kerosene of grief - Sun Yung Shin "A History of Domestication"

Hiding kisses before they grieve - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Escapes a Bosch Painting"

Brows that starry Grief had crowned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Grief's long protest and despair - Effie Smith "A Mountain Graveyard"

From the bitter wind gets grief - "A Song of Winter" transl. by Kuno Meyer

And grief could not reach me - "The Soul (From 'The Black Book of Caermarthen.')" (translated by ??)

But grief is ever resurrected - Lisa Russ Spaar "Driving"

Companion to your grieving eyes - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson

The grief from sorrow's bitter cup - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"

Shades of grief have darkly gathered - E. Clementine Stedman "Lines: To the Author of the Requiem, 'I See Thee Still'"

A small part only of my grief - James Stephens "Skim Milk"

The grief and music of forgotten lives - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"

Drowned in the pool of grief - M. Letitia Stockett "The Pool"

In the dim alcoves of grief - Bianca Stone "A Brief Topography of the MSCOG"

As when grieves and sings a fallen angel - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

In a sea of grief flow round me - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The stars died out with grief - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Redressing grief's worst wrongs - Algernon Swinburne "Benediction"

Share my grief with the stars - Abdikheyir Khelil Tawakkul "Sharing My Sorrow" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Save this one spark of burning grief - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Producing a taxi from litter and latter day grief - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

With all their griefs in their arms - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

What grief of love had he to stifle - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"

Offered honey but arrived with too much grief - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Who grieves amid earth's dying leaves - W.J. Turner "Death"

Your ballad's grief, your lyric's fire - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Every muffled drum and grieving bugle - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"

The ending of my history of grief - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson

In the quiet arms of grief - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"

The grief that is but feigning - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

Trysts with grief have kept - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Knocking open the door to a grief - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"

Grief a gorgeous, queenly thing - Winifred Welles "Exile"

Beat back the wild beasts of grief - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Then, They Came"

Nought left be the lost wind that grieves - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"

Lifting us out of grief and terror - Lesley Wheeler "Dragon Questionnaire"

A joy which can encompass grief - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"

Grieve not with the moaning wind - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Fire of my heart's grief - Margaret Widdemer "The Forgotten Soul"

And cried of grief and loneliness - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"

Born with grief and gratitude - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

As they my grief would gage - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

With cries like grieving - Valerie Worth "Geese"

Blown under a wind that grieves - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

If grief is a hotel - Josephine Yu "Veneration of the Anxious"


Grievous day of wrathful winds - Susan Coolidge "Outward Bound"

Beneath his grievous load oppressed - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Paused at every grievous door - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"

Comes in a box with grievous dimensions - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"


Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"


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