somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Regret

Why shouldn't the rain signal regret - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"

I linger here still with the rain and my regrets - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"

Feed a thousand chains of regret through greasy barrels - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Untinctured with regrets - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"

token mainly for regret - Elizabeth Bartlett "this much I know about time"

Of harsh neglect, regret, despair - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

With pastries and the charge of regret - Tina Chang "Sugar"

One parting, ten thousand regrets - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

the fifth was the stone of my regret - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

the only hell is regret - Lucille Clifton "the message of fred clifton"

Close our eyes against regret - Lucille Clifton "mirror"

the banners of regret - Lucille Clifton "my lost father"

Spring cannot regret thee - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"

The sharing of this woeful late regret - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

Dark seam woven of regret - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

And teach you the meaning of regret - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

Regret turned like a sunflower toward that scientific sun - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Vicious enough to merit the weight of regret - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Perpetual agenda of regret - Boris Dralyuk "Dictionary of Omissions"

With open mouth and no regrets - Stephen Dunn "Time"

As sharp and quick as regret - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"

The sand blowing over her last regret - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Touring the Earth Gallery"

Regret is the final emotion - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

Through my private orchard of no regrets - Deborah Garrison "Her Majesty Loses Her Touch"

Long purged of all regret - Hermann Hagedorn "The Ghost"

A nameless feeling of regret - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

Caught in a knot of regret - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

Regret's ambrosial wine - Bret Harte "The Personified Sentimental"

Watching the sky regret nothing - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Hours of suspense and vigils of regret - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Useless to dream, more useless to regret - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--It Might Have Been"

But left us ashes and regret - Luisa Hewitt "[You lit your cigarette from mine]"

Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

The dearest regard and the deepest regret - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"

To be a student of regret - Taylor Johnson "Club 2718"

With wild regrets and silent pain - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Violets"

Your most beautiful regret - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Put on the shelf to gather regret - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

Full of regret and sad stories - Ted Kooser "A Heart of Gold"

Walk the edge of regret and wonder - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Some vain regrets to bridle - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"

Sent regrets by smoke - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

Sweep from the years regret - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

That death need regret - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Song of the Sleeper"

With regrets and many a sigh - H.P. McKnight "Forget? No, Never!"

The flying hours shall chase regret - Louis J. McQuilland "Chateau d'Espoir"

A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"

View the damage without regretting - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Relief maps of regret - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Torrent"

The rich soaked mulch of sheer regret - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

A frail and dusty heap of regret - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

Hard to regret beauty and easy to lie - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"

Each bone of my mother's regret - Hieu Minh Nguyen "I Want Nothing"

To marble carry this regret - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"

Of exile with no regrets - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer Radio" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Regret nowhere figuring - Carl Phillips "Brocade"

Untouched by regret - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

Lay untouched by regret - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

Regretfulness is not regret - Carl Phillips "Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors"

Regrets find no shelter there - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"

A keen longing which shadows forth regret - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Returned -- "Missing" (Five Years After)"

Who shares the milk of regret - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

And I regret not counting - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

Confessed the dry return of his regret - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"

One word spoken, one whisper of regret - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"

A remembering of regrets - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

Regrets fly kites in your eyes - Carl Sandburg "Wistful"

Where mind weaves absence and regret - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"

Desire and regret live side by side - Philip Schultz "A Moment"

No regrets, no questions, no demands - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"

Rimmed with rust and regret - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Wears an Artificial Eye"

In memory's regretful night - George Sterling "At Dusk"

Regret for every fallen leaf - George Sterling "Discord"

Tender as sleep to old regret - George Sterling "The Strange Bird"

Twilight music that regrets - George Sterling "White Magic"

Sources of power and regret - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"

I am through with regret - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"

Golden and sad and full of regret - Arthur Stringer "A Summer Night"

Not yet worth patience to regret - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

Faith responds to love's regret - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

As mourners clothed with regret - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"

A box in which regret will fit - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"

Moths to fever and regret - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"

The scent of his regrets - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

Hear you over the regret - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"

With few details and much regret - Ellen Bryant Voigt "Kyrie" (p.17)

Before you start regretting - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

And die by all regretted - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"

Too lovely for regret - John Hall Wheelock "But Love--"

With unthought regret - C. K. Williams "Oh"

Requires some level of regret - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"

The pallid candles of my vain regrets - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"

Some tribute of regret - William Wordsworth "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic"

All four meanings of the word regret - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"

The metronome of regret - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"

Ending in an ouroboric blaze of regret - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"

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