somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Sad

Though 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"

Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

But Sadness at nightfall weaves - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"

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"

Sad and sober to the eye - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."

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"

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]

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

The day's sad pages end - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

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"

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"

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"

The sound of sadness stepping barefoot - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

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]"

Always the saddest Venetian farewells - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"

The sad trophies of my spirit - George Santayana "Avila"

The saddest of all her twilights - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

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"

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"

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"

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

True to your sad violence - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

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]

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--"

My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

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

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]

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"

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"

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"

To illumine the sad skies of night - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"

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