Potential Titles: Mourn
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somethingdarkerOnly what is cherished will be mourned - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"
Mourn for the vanished brightness - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Her Cradle"
Cuckoos mourn around the house - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Light a mourner's candle - Rachel Barenblat "Yahrzeit"
I have mourned tomorrow - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
Let patient mourners weep - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"
What mournful musics wander over it - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
Like I have mourned no other loss - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
The image every portrait mourns - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
His sad disciples mourning - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Wild and mournful as a star - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Covered their remains with mourning moss - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Why mourn the perished glories of the past? - George S. Burleigh "Death" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The crickets mourning their comrades lost - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"
mourn every necessary bit - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"
No cypress nor no mourning yew - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"
And nature's self wear mourning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
A prisoner in earth's mournful dungeon - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Mourn not the joys of the lost last year - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Never mournful to be in their company - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Left her no object to mourn - J.C. Denovan "Oh Dermot, Dear Loved One!"
The mourner lays his head on the cold oak - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
And mournful stillness reigned around - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Mournful as thunder moving through - John Gould Fletcher "In Exile"
Mourners from the spirit of hope - Alimjan Metqasim Ghemnaki "The Monument of Betrayal" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
In mournful monotones were mixed - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
We heard the lost curlew mourning - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"
Oldest vowels of mourners' mouths - Leah Naomi Green "Yahrzeit"
I mourn o'er my perished faith and truth - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Mourn and lament while mixing - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"
Make mournful music over me - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Grows stronger each time we mourn - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Unsung mourning in choir - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"
Who can tell you not to mourn the dust? - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
If you want to mourn the dust - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
Mourned by disconsolate crickets - William D. Howells "Clement"
A mournful thought did borrow - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"
Bench where the last mourner lingers - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Share an afternoon of mourning - June Jordan "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr."
May drive our conquerors to mourn - John Keats "Hyperion"
Gnats mourn among the river sallows - John Keats "To Autumn"
Mourn not the perishing of each fair toy - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"
Purple wreaths of mournful nightshade - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Oh! that I were a fairy sprite, to wander]"
The crows mournful at the mouth of the cave - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"
That mourn in flowing Purple - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
The voice of Rachel mourning - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Mournful, rattling bones and chains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
I mourn departed Hope in vain - Henry S. Leigh "An Allegory Written in Deep Dejection"
One scorched phoenix that mourned in the dew - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"
Your words in mournful cadence toll - Amy Lowell "The End"
Walk in mournful conference together - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"
Honoured by the eyes that mourn - George Martin "The Drunkard"
Twelve black crows in mourning - Herbert Woodward Martin "Twelve Black Crows"
With screens of mourning in their larynx - Oriana MĂ©ndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
In houses of oblique mourning - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
The lost lore of mournful lands - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Lodged beneath your mourning - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"
Refuse me morning and mourning - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
And the tumbling sea mourned - William Morris "The Blue Closet"
Mourned by the ocean wave - Neil Munro "Fingal's Weeping"
Mourn no more my vanished years - "My Psalm" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
A distance beyond mourning - Walter Dean Myers "William Riley Pitts, 42, Jazz Artist"
Anguish like the mourning heart - Francis Neilson "Absence"
A dove of mourning and snow - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
On the shore of your eyes of mourning - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Contemplated saints in mourning - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The balcony dark with mourning - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Whose voice would mock me in the mourning bell - Robert Nichols "To ---"
That mourners in their turn were mourned - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Seasonable for mourning-time - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"
Mourned by candlelight - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "How Fortunate the Boy"
The mournful cry of monkeys - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Already acquainted with mourning - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
To mourn among my scattered roses - Christina Rossetti "An October Garden"
And Jeremiah mourns Jerusalem - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
How mournful is the silence - "Sean Dana"
No longer mourn for me - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Mournful hymns did hush the night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CII"
Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"
As toads mourned beneath the hemlock - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Spoken by mournful mouths - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Let all men go apart and mourn together - James Stephens "Deirdre"
The mournful music of the years - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"
Had mourned in Eden's evening - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
The crimson gardens of the mourning air - George Sterling "October"
Clad all in mourning dresses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
As mourners clothed with regret - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"
One mourner to a thousand dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Sighs mournfully under the midnight moon - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]
Each grey street mourns - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"
Sowed the seed of mourning years - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"
Heard the brown thrush mourning - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"
In mournful grace to move - John Hall Wheelock "Vaudeville"
We'll not mourn for the faded and gone - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
And outcasts always mourn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Its own procedures of mourning - C. K. Williams "Elegy for an Artist: 2. Wept"
Traveller, turn a mournful eye - Iolo Aneurin Williams "A Monument (After an Ancient Fashion)"
Wafted echoes of a mournful hymn - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
The mournful wonder of his eyes - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea"
End with the mourner's tears - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Who thought to die unmourned - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"
Secret by the unmourning water - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
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Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"
Mourn for the vanished brightness - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Her Cradle"
Cuckoos mourn around the house - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Light a mourner's candle - Rachel Barenblat "Yahrzeit"
I have mourned tomorrow - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
Let patient mourners weep - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"
What mournful musics wander over it - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
Like I have mourned no other loss - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
The image every portrait mourns - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
His sad disciples mourning - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Wild and mournful as a star - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Covered their remains with mourning moss - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Why mourn the perished glories of the past? - George S. Burleigh "Death" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The crickets mourning their comrades lost - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"
mourn every necessary bit - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"
No cypress nor no mourning yew - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"
And nature's self wear mourning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
A prisoner in earth's mournful dungeon - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Mourn not the joys of the lost last year - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Never mournful to be in their company - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Left her no object to mourn - J.C. Denovan "Oh Dermot, Dear Loved One!"
The mourner lays his head on the cold oak - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
And mournful stillness reigned around - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Mournful as thunder moving through - John Gould Fletcher "In Exile"
Mourners from the spirit of hope - Alimjan Metqasim Ghemnaki "The Monument of Betrayal" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
In mournful monotones were mixed - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
We heard the lost curlew mourning - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"
Oldest vowels of mourners' mouths - Leah Naomi Green "Yahrzeit"
I mourn o'er my perished faith and truth - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Mourn and lament while mixing - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"
Make mournful music over me - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Grows stronger each time we mourn - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Unsung mourning in choir - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"
Who can tell you not to mourn the dust? - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
If you want to mourn the dust - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
Mourned by disconsolate crickets - William D. Howells "Clement"
A mournful thought did borrow - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"
Bench where the last mourner lingers - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Share an afternoon of mourning - June Jordan "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr."
May drive our conquerors to mourn - John Keats "Hyperion"
Gnats mourn among the river sallows - John Keats "To Autumn"
Mourn not the perishing of each fair toy - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"
Purple wreaths of mournful nightshade - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Oh! that I were a fairy sprite, to wander]"
The crows mournful at the mouth of the cave - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"
That mourn in flowing Purple - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
The voice of Rachel mourning - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Mournful, rattling bones and chains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
I mourn departed Hope in vain - Henry S. Leigh "An Allegory Written in Deep Dejection"
One scorched phoenix that mourned in the dew - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"
Your words in mournful cadence toll - Amy Lowell "The End"
Walk in mournful conference together - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"
Honoured by the eyes that mourn - George Martin "The Drunkard"
Twelve black crows in mourning - Herbert Woodward Martin "Twelve Black Crows"
With screens of mourning in their larynx - Oriana MĂ©ndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
In houses of oblique mourning - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
The lost lore of mournful lands - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Lodged beneath your mourning - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"
Refuse me morning and mourning - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
And the tumbling sea mourned - William Morris "The Blue Closet"
Mourned by the ocean wave - Neil Munro "Fingal's Weeping"
Mourn no more my vanished years - "My Psalm" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
A distance beyond mourning - Walter Dean Myers "William Riley Pitts, 42, Jazz Artist"
Anguish like the mourning heart - Francis Neilson "Absence"
A dove of mourning and snow - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
On the shore of your eyes of mourning - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Contemplated saints in mourning - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The balcony dark with mourning - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Whose voice would mock me in the mourning bell - Robert Nichols "To ---"
That mourners in their turn were mourned - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Seasonable for mourning-time - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"
Mourned by candlelight - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "How Fortunate the Boy"
The mournful cry of monkeys - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Already acquainted with mourning - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
To mourn among my scattered roses - Christina Rossetti "An October Garden"
And Jeremiah mourns Jerusalem - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
How mournful is the silence - "Sean Dana"
No longer mourn for me - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Mournful hymns did hush the night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CII"
Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"
As toads mourned beneath the hemlock - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Spoken by mournful mouths - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Let all men go apart and mourn together - James Stephens "Deirdre"
The mournful music of the years - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"
Had mourned in Eden's evening - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
The crimson gardens of the mourning air - George Sterling "October"
Clad all in mourning dresses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
As mourners clothed with regret - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"
One mourner to a thousand dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Sighs mournfully under the midnight moon - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]
Each grey street mourns - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"
Sowed the seed of mourning years - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"
Heard the brown thrush mourning - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"
In mournful grace to move - John Hall Wheelock "Vaudeville"
We'll not mourn for the faded and gone - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
And outcasts always mourn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Its own procedures of mourning - C. K. Williams "Elegy for an Artist: 2. Wept"
Traveller, turn a mournful eye - Iolo Aneurin Williams "A Monument (After an Ancient Fashion)"
Wafted echoes of a mournful hymn - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
The mournful wonder of his eyes - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea"
End with the mourner's tears - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Who thought to die unmourned - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"
Secret by the unmourning water - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
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