Potential Titles: Sad
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somethingdarkerThough sad affection weeps - A.L.O.E. "Death Is Not Dreadful"
Sad subterranean murmurs - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"
Mixing its cocktail of sadness and dazzle - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"
In the bosom of the sad evening - Delmira Agustini "The Vampire" (translated by Alejandro Caceres)
Surrendered to his sad yearning songs - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
Sadly the winds of autumn sigh - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Wait sadly for the order to serve the feast - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Command our sadness to dance to God's will - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Sad as summer parasols in a hurricane - Maya Angelou "Forgive"
A sadness feeding on itself - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel and the woman"
Can we reduce echo's sadness by synchronizing our speeches? - Rae Armantrout "Two, Three"
May come to robe thy brow in sadness - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The same sad rooks awake their mocking cries - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Sadly bends the stricken Year - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"
The single sad ribbon of later - Mary Jo Bang "The Elements of Style"
Sad with old knowledge - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
And my song of joy hath a sad refrain - Charles H. Barstow "Sweetbriar Lane" [Chambers Edinburgh Journal series 5, 7:329, 256, 19 April 1890]
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
The sadness and sweetness of far evening bells - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
Through my heart its sad refrain - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "To M. S."
To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Would borrow thy sad weeds - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"
Our sad hearts smolder and burn - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
As the sad curfew sounds - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
His sad disciples mourning - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Those sad relics scattered round - Emily Bronte "Hope"
To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Where only sad thoughts reign - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A sad liberation at your departure - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
His eye's sad devotion - Thomas Campbell "Exile of Erin"
When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
While sad October moans and roves - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
Comes back the sad eternal way - Bliss Carman "The Unreturning"
In sad laments that ne'er shall reach their close - Miguel de Cervantes "Galatea Book I" transl. by H. Oelsner & A.B. Welford
I write sad poems with swaying characters - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Silvered with sadness, somnolent and deep - Ralph Chaplin "Taps"
the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"
To pace the sad confusion through - Arthur Hugh Clough "Through a Glass Darkly"
What sad bureaucracy of luck - Leonard Cohen "O Wife Unmasked"
Age came upon us, grey and sad - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"
With sad complainings still denied - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"
That heals the sad heart's strife - Benjamin Copeland "The Light of Life"
And banished be all sadness - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
No sadness clogs the dreamer's strain - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Sad with the echo of their reproaches - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"
The sad strange wreckage of full may ships - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
And sad with all farewells - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
Sad pleasure in the moon's control - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"
Echoes faint of sad and soul-sick cries - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
But Sadness at nightfall weaves - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
And wrought each curve in saddest thought - A.E. "An Irish Face"
The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"
Sunshine there in saddening lustre fall - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
And all their sad significance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
When the moon mocks the sad - George Allan England "Hesperides"
Mourned the cruel fate and sad - Thomas Dunn English "Jack, the Regular" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Sweet drop in the bitter cup of life's too sad alloy - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Little Children" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]
By a sad presage with affects my soul - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In this sad interval of time feel piercing anguish - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sad and sober to the eye - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."
To pine in the chill shade of sadness - William Falconer "The Dying Minstrel to His Muse" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Pacing the sad gardens of memory - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani
Were oblivion not sadder yet - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
The sad wind spinning arabesques - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Amid the last sad drifting crowds of midnight - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Breathing with indiscernible sadnesses - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Tell of hearts you've sadly broken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Streams of uncomprehending sadness pour - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
The future sobs a low, sad warning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
A sad Muse in the melodious choir - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"
His shield a tear of sadness - W.S. Gilbert "The Rival Curates"
The wailings of the world's sad heart - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Sad historian of the pensive plain - Oliver Goldsmith "The Deserted Village"
The sad architecture of abandonment - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
With dirges due in sad array - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
In saffrons and sad greens - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
The sad, sweet song of one who grieves - J.H. [Jessie C. Howden per the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site] "A Bright Day in November" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.152--v.III, 27 Nov. 1886]
However sad the season - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
Has no need of sadness - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
Wearing glee & sadness - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
The echoed note of a heart's sad psalm - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Slack Tide"
Feel the sad wind rising - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Sadness sings half a tune - Conrad Hilberry "Sadness"
Find its own sad rhymes - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
The thieves of sad fate - Jennie Earngey Hill "The Meadowlark"
Thought no cares could make him sad - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"
The infinite endeavour of a sad fountain - Aldous Huxley "The Garden"
With your strange airs of courteous sadness - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"
And pangs of sad remorse encroach - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]
With the moon's own sadness - Jean Ingelow "Divided"
Bring comfort to our sad hearts - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
The jewels of saddest flowers - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
With endless wisdom sad - Elinor Jenkins "Artificial Light"
All mysteries sad and sweet - Elinor Jenkins "Veronica"
Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"
A sad goat in my kitchen - Julia Johnson "Failure"
Ask no sad requiem o'er his ashes sung - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Your sadness unbuttons my heart - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"
Thro' the sad echoes of pale Memory's cave - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
What sad nights I'll cradle in my lap - Mary Karr "Diogenes Passes the Time"
Punched the saddest numbers on the jukebox - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"
Places sadness shouldn’t live - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
The London glare climbs upward to make the sad skies glow - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"
All the sad spaces of oblivion - John Keats "Hyperion"
Through the sad heart of Ruth - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
A sad heart walks through this jubilee - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"
A stream of sad and solemn splendour - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
Sad disciple of a shining band now gone - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"
All the sad and sweet divinity of years - Henry Kendall "Bells Beyond the Forest"
Sings past even the sadness that begins it - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"
Full of regret and sad stories - Ted Kooser "A Heart of Gold"
Sad parties between us two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Only my sad heart remembers - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
The ancient world's sad glories - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Until they sank to sad suggestings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Lords of the desolate wastes of sadness - D.H. Lawrence "The Wild Common"
The day's sad pages end - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Then sad September with her rains - Richard Le Gallienne "How Fast the Year Is Going By"
Sad substitutes for wholesome food - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
In the sudden aftermath I inhaled a sadness - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
In bloody fields, sad seas, and countries desolate - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXIII: Alexandrines"
Sad together now autumn has returned - Li Po "Autumn of All Good Things" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My heart looks back in sadness - Li Po "Picking the Lotus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Wine loosens sadness from the heart - Li Po "Why Be Jealous?" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Two sad shadows over the old nations - Vachel Lindsay "The Fever Called War"
A wilderness of sad streets - Amy Lowell "From One Who Stays"
With one sad color are imbued - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
The sad emblems of regretted days - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Your sweet and sad complaints - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
Sadder here outside your alliances - Maya Marshall "Anatomy of a Fish Hook"
The elm-trees sadden in the hedge - John Masefield "August, 1914"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
Though I bring home my sadness - Shane McCrae "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
The sadness of water fountains - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"
Past the cyclones of our sadness - Orlando Ricardo Menes "Tower of Babel"
I guard for thee this jealous sad monopoly - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"
That sad embroidery wears - John Milton "Lycidas"
Through the vale my sad orison rolls - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Sad and vagrant little coins - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"
A bridegroom among sadnesses - Pablo Neruda "Goodbyes" transl. by Alastair Reid
Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
Crows sing sadder songs in this haunted land - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
I am not sad for you though I could be - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
The music of rum and a sad clarinet - Alden Nowlen "The Last Waltz"
Together with our sad shoes and hideouts - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hello"
Frozen, rain-drenched, sad betrayed - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Sad glories on the cold wave burn - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
Steal sadness of not wanting - Grace Paley "Anti-Love Poem"
Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
A sad song coming on the wind - Pe Kin-yi "A Lady from Afar" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The sound of sadness stepping barefoot - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Sad dirges of thy perished glory - Lydia Jane Pierson "To the Pine on the Mountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
The silken sad uncertain rustling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Beguiling all my sad soul into smiling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Sad lagoons to bathe the icy stars - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Wind across the gable roofs singing sad - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"
Of elegant speeches sadly wasted - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Teufel-Haus"
The anniversary of some future sadness - Charles Rafferty "Unnoticed"
Trembling lips pour the sad dirge of sighing - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Whose smouldering embers lie, sad relics - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The bride of my own sad light - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
Clear of the saddest soul-stench - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
Fills the stars with sad surprise - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Baby's Valentine"
Free to walk in the Paradise of sadness - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson
The colors of all the saddest love songs - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"
Sadness comes in generations - Kristina Kay Robinson "Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat's 'Pez Dispenser 1984'"
A sad thought buried in light - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Sing no sad songs for me - Christina Rossetti "Song [When I am dead, my dearest]"
Sad songs that live in earnest ears - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Melted in the tint of evening's purple sadness - "A Sacred Grove" [Household Words no.26, Sept. 21, 1850]
Always the saddest Venetian farewells - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"
Sad that his toy was broken - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"
The sad trophies of my spirit - George Santayana "Avila"
The saddest of all her twilights - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
A sad song spun from sugar to the clamor of tin - M. Bartley Seigel "Fourteener for the Restless in the Long Night"
Sadness shapes the landscape - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"
Sad dreams of wasted summer days - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Sad dreams of wasted summer days - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Within its pale sad air each angry feeling fades - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
The jealous flame of sad, infernal suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
The sad tear may embitter the wine - R. Penn Smith "A Health to My Brother"
Emblems of her sad hours - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"
A solitary sparrow perched on sadness - Richard Solomon "Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion"
Can only reply in the numbers of sadness - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
Reply in the numbers of sadness - E. Clementine Stedman "Stanzas"
Every word a newer sadness - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
And the sad moon walks the sky - James Stephens "Day and Night"
The slow, sad murmur of far distant seas - James Stephens "The Shell"
Too sad to watch the sky - George Sterling "The Faun"
Too sadly troubled with its wind of change - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
Golden and sad and full of regret - Arthur Stringer "A Summer Night"
True to your sad violence - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Where can I go to speak my sadness? - Su Shih "A Dream of You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
That draws breath so sad - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Reckon its hoard of saddened memories - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
By mute communions and by salt sad kisses - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LIV: After Many Years"
Sad tomatoes, sullen sky - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"
There on the sad height - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
The sadness of the owl's last cry - Edward Thomas "Ambition"
Its sad knell rolls to many hearths - Henry David Thoreau "The Funeral Bell"
Sad songs of long ago - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"
Wear my sadness like a coat - Kristen Tracy "About Myself"
Our hearts with sadder pulses beat - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
Now sad rains are falling - Tu Fu "The Poet Dreams" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
And artistry brought to much sad disgrace - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
The sad tumults of the maze - Henry Vaughan "To My Ingenious Friend, R. W."
Being sad in their fantastic trim - Paul Verlaine "Clair de Lune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Half sad beneath their guise of fantasy - Paul Verlaine "Nocturne" transl. by Clara Shanafelt [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
All this dizzy sadness - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
In sad decay are first to fall, and fade away - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Brought us not one thought of sadness - H.K.W. "The Leaf Prophetic" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.681, 13 Jan. 1877]
Our sad times unraveling my legacy - Wang An-Shih "Thoughts as I Lie Alone" transl. by David Hinton
Boast in the sad marks of glory lost - Isaac Watts "Against Pride in Clothes"
And traces his sad horizons - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
A sadder light than waning moon - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
A sad song with a sad lute playing beside it - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Because my sadness feels incomplete - C. K. Williams "Elegy for an Artist: 3. With You"
Flow onward in a sadder guise - Miss H.J. Woodman "The Maiden's Burial"
When pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
The still, sad music of humanity - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
My heart is sad and will not dance - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
From the sea's sad lips - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Grown sad with its eternity - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Where he had thrown some of his sadness - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"
Sadness which sometimes corrodes his friends - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"
Being sad is a form of exsanguination - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]
To illumine the sad skies of night - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"
Sad-aisled avenues of evening stars - Arthur Stringer "Persephone"
Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"
Under a willow-maze you went unsaddened - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 41"
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Sad subterranean murmurs - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"
Mixing its cocktail of sadness and dazzle - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"
In the bosom of the sad evening - Delmira Agustini "The Vampire" (translated by Alejandro Caceres)
Surrendered to his sad yearning songs - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
Sadly the winds of autumn sigh - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Wait sadly for the order to serve the feast - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Command our sadness to dance to God's will - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Sad as summer parasols in a hurricane - Maya Angelou "Forgive"
A sadness feeding on itself - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel and the woman"
Can we reduce echo's sadness by synchronizing our speeches? - Rae Armantrout "Two, Three"
May come to robe thy brow in sadness - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The same sad rooks awake their mocking cries - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Sadly bends the stricken Year - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"
The single sad ribbon of later - Mary Jo Bang "The Elements of Style"
Sad with old knowledge - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
And my song of joy hath a sad refrain - Charles H. Barstow "Sweetbriar Lane" [Chambers Edinburgh Journal series 5, 7:329, 256, 19 April 1890]
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
The sadness and sweetness of far evening bells - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
Through my heart its sad refrain - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "To M. S."
To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Would borrow thy sad weeds - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"
Our sad hearts smolder and burn - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
As the sad curfew sounds - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
His sad disciples mourning - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Those sad relics scattered round - Emily Bronte "Hope"
To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Where only sad thoughts reign - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A sad liberation at your departure - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
His eye's sad devotion - Thomas Campbell "Exile of Erin"
When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
While sad October moans and roves - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
Comes back the sad eternal way - Bliss Carman "The Unreturning"
In sad laments that ne'er shall reach their close - Miguel de Cervantes "Galatea Book I" transl. by H. Oelsner & A.B. Welford
I write sad poems with swaying characters - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Silvered with sadness, somnolent and deep - Ralph Chaplin "Taps"
the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"
To pace the sad confusion through - Arthur Hugh Clough "Through a Glass Darkly"
What sad bureaucracy of luck - Leonard Cohen "O Wife Unmasked"
Age came upon us, grey and sad - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"
With sad complainings still denied - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"
That heals the sad heart's strife - Benjamin Copeland "The Light of Life"
And banished be all sadness - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
No sadness clogs the dreamer's strain - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Sad with the echo of their reproaches - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"
The sad strange wreckage of full may ships - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
And sad with all farewells - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
Sad pleasure in the moon's control - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"
Echoes faint of sad and soul-sick cries - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
But Sadness at nightfall weaves - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
And wrought each curve in saddest thought - A.E. "An Irish Face"
The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"
Sunshine there in saddening lustre fall - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
And all their sad significance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
When the moon mocks the sad - George Allan England "Hesperides"
Mourned the cruel fate and sad - Thomas Dunn English "Jack, the Regular" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Sweet drop in the bitter cup of life's too sad alloy - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Little Children" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]
By a sad presage with affects my soul - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In this sad interval of time feel piercing anguish - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sad and sober to the eye - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."
To pine in the chill shade of sadness - William Falconer "The Dying Minstrel to His Muse" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Pacing the sad gardens of memory - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani
Were oblivion not sadder yet - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
The sad wind spinning arabesques - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Amid the last sad drifting crowds of midnight - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Breathing with indiscernible sadnesses - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Tell of hearts you've sadly broken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Streams of uncomprehending sadness pour - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
The future sobs a low, sad warning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
A sad Muse in the melodious choir - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"
His shield a tear of sadness - W.S. Gilbert "The Rival Curates"
The wailings of the world's sad heart - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Sad historian of the pensive plain - Oliver Goldsmith "The Deserted Village"
The sad architecture of abandonment - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
With dirges due in sad array - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
In saffrons and sad greens - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
The sad, sweet song of one who grieves - J.H. [Jessie C. Howden per the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site] "A Bright Day in November" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.152--v.III, 27 Nov. 1886]
However sad the season - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
Has no need of sadness - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
Wearing glee & sadness - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
The echoed note of a heart's sad psalm - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Slack Tide"
Feel the sad wind rising - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Sadness sings half a tune - Conrad Hilberry "Sadness"
Find its own sad rhymes - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
The thieves of sad fate - Jennie Earngey Hill "The Meadowlark"
Thought no cares could make him sad - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"
The infinite endeavour of a sad fountain - Aldous Huxley "The Garden"
With your strange airs of courteous sadness - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"
And pangs of sad remorse encroach - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]
With the moon's own sadness - Jean Ingelow "Divided"
Bring comfort to our sad hearts - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
The jewels of saddest flowers - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
With endless wisdom sad - Elinor Jenkins "Artificial Light"
All mysteries sad and sweet - Elinor Jenkins "Veronica"
Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"
A sad goat in my kitchen - Julia Johnson "Failure"
Ask no sad requiem o'er his ashes sung - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Your sadness unbuttons my heart - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"
Thro' the sad echoes of pale Memory's cave - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
What sad nights I'll cradle in my lap - Mary Karr "Diogenes Passes the Time"
Punched the saddest numbers on the jukebox - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"
Places sadness shouldn’t live - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
The London glare climbs upward to make the sad skies glow - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"
All the sad spaces of oblivion - John Keats "Hyperion"
Through the sad heart of Ruth - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
A sad heart walks through this jubilee - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"
A stream of sad and solemn splendour - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
Sad disciple of a shining band now gone - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"
All the sad and sweet divinity of years - Henry Kendall "Bells Beyond the Forest"
Sings past even the sadness that begins it - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"
Full of regret and sad stories - Ted Kooser "A Heart of Gold"
Sad parties between us two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Only my sad heart remembers - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
The ancient world's sad glories - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Until they sank to sad suggestings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Lords of the desolate wastes of sadness - D.H. Lawrence "The Wild Common"
The day's sad pages end - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Then sad September with her rains - Richard Le Gallienne "How Fast the Year Is Going By"
Sad substitutes for wholesome food - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
In the sudden aftermath I inhaled a sadness - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
In bloody fields, sad seas, and countries desolate - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXIII: Alexandrines"
Sad together now autumn has returned - Li Po "Autumn of All Good Things" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My heart looks back in sadness - Li Po "Picking the Lotus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Wine loosens sadness from the heart - Li Po "Why Be Jealous?" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Two sad shadows over the old nations - Vachel Lindsay "The Fever Called War"
A wilderness of sad streets - Amy Lowell "From One Who Stays"
With one sad color are imbued - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
The sad emblems of regretted days - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Your sweet and sad complaints - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
Sadder here outside your alliances - Maya Marshall "Anatomy of a Fish Hook"
The elm-trees sadden in the hedge - John Masefield "August, 1914"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
Though I bring home my sadness - Shane McCrae "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
The sadness of water fountains - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"
Past the cyclones of our sadness - Orlando Ricardo Menes "Tower of Babel"
I guard for thee this jealous sad monopoly - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"
That sad embroidery wears - John Milton "Lycidas"
Through the vale my sad orison rolls - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Sad and vagrant little coins - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"
A bridegroom among sadnesses - Pablo Neruda "Goodbyes" transl. by Alastair Reid
Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
Crows sing sadder songs in this haunted land - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
I am not sad for you though I could be - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
The music of rum and a sad clarinet - Alden Nowlen "The Last Waltz"
Together with our sad shoes and hideouts - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hello"
Frozen, rain-drenched, sad betrayed - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Sad glories on the cold wave burn - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
Steal sadness of not wanting - Grace Paley "Anti-Love Poem"
Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
A sad song coming on the wind - Pe Kin-yi "A Lady from Afar" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The sound of sadness stepping barefoot - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Sad dirges of thy perished glory - Lydia Jane Pierson "To the Pine on the Mountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
The silken sad uncertain rustling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Beguiling all my sad soul into smiling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Sad lagoons to bathe the icy stars - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Wind across the gable roofs singing sad - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"
Of elegant speeches sadly wasted - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Teufel-Haus"
The anniversary of some future sadness - Charles Rafferty "Unnoticed"
Trembling lips pour the sad dirge of sighing - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Whose smouldering embers lie, sad relics - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The bride of my own sad light - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
Clear of the saddest soul-stench - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
Fills the stars with sad surprise - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Baby's Valentine"
Free to walk in the Paradise of sadness - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson
The colors of all the saddest love songs - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"
Sadness comes in generations - Kristina Kay Robinson "Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat's 'Pez Dispenser 1984'"
A sad thought buried in light - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Sing no sad songs for me - Christina Rossetti "Song [When I am dead, my dearest]"
Sad songs that live in earnest ears - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Melted in the tint of evening's purple sadness - "A Sacred Grove" [Household Words no.26, Sept. 21, 1850]
Always the saddest Venetian farewells - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"
Sad that his toy was broken - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"
The sad trophies of my spirit - George Santayana "Avila"
The saddest of all her twilights - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
A sad song spun from sugar to the clamor of tin - M. Bartley Seigel "Fourteener for the Restless in the Long Night"
Sadness shapes the landscape - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"
Sad dreams of wasted summer days - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Sad dreams of wasted summer days - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Within its pale sad air each angry feeling fades - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
The jealous flame of sad, infernal suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
The sad tear may embitter the wine - R. Penn Smith "A Health to My Brother"
Emblems of her sad hours - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"
A solitary sparrow perched on sadness - Richard Solomon "Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion"
Can only reply in the numbers of sadness - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
Reply in the numbers of sadness - E. Clementine Stedman "Stanzas"
Every word a newer sadness - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
And the sad moon walks the sky - James Stephens "Day and Night"
The slow, sad murmur of far distant seas - James Stephens "The Shell"
Too sad to watch the sky - George Sterling "The Faun"
Too sadly troubled with its wind of change - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
Golden and sad and full of regret - Arthur Stringer "A Summer Night"
True to your sad violence - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Where can I go to speak my sadness? - Su Shih "A Dream of You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
That draws breath so sad - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Reckon its hoard of saddened memories - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
By mute communions and by salt sad kisses - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LIV: After Many Years"
Sad tomatoes, sullen sky - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"
There on the sad height - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
The sadness of the owl's last cry - Edward Thomas "Ambition"
Its sad knell rolls to many hearths - Henry David Thoreau "The Funeral Bell"
Sad songs of long ago - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"
Wear my sadness like a coat - Kristen Tracy "About Myself"
Our hearts with sadder pulses beat - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
Now sad rains are falling - Tu Fu "The Poet Dreams" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
And artistry brought to much sad disgrace - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
The sad tumults of the maze - Henry Vaughan "To My Ingenious Friend, R. W."
Being sad in their fantastic trim - Paul Verlaine "Clair de Lune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Half sad beneath their guise of fantasy - Paul Verlaine "Nocturne" transl. by Clara Shanafelt [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
All this dizzy sadness - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
In sad decay are first to fall, and fade away - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Brought us not one thought of sadness - H.K.W. "The Leaf Prophetic" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.681, 13 Jan. 1877]
Our sad times unraveling my legacy - Wang An-Shih "Thoughts as I Lie Alone" transl. by David Hinton
Boast in the sad marks of glory lost - Isaac Watts "Against Pride in Clothes"
And traces his sad horizons - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
A sadder light than waning moon - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
A sad song with a sad lute playing beside it - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Because my sadness feels incomplete - C. K. Williams "Elegy for an Artist: 3. With You"
Flow onward in a sadder guise - Miss H.J. Woodman "The Maiden's Burial"
When pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
The still, sad music of humanity - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
My heart is sad and will not dance - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
From the sea's sad lips - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Grown sad with its eternity - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Where he had thrown some of his sadness - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"
Sadness which sometimes corrodes his friends - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"
Being sad is a form of exsanguination - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]
To illumine the sad skies of night - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"
Sad-aisled avenues of evening stars - Arthur Stringer "Persephone"
Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"
Under a willow-maze you went unsaddened - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 41"
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