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Withered leaves and sighing winds - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Echoes load the sighing gales - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

With Sighs to warm my Soul - Aphra Behn "In Imitation of Horace"

Provoked its million tears and sighs - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Born in the stirring midnight's sigh - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"

Lying mobs of sighs and laughs - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"

True gods sigh for the cost and pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

He who for seed sows sorrow, tears, and sighs - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVI. Love and Art" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The sigh of such labor - Amelia Josephine Burr "Perugia"

To whom sighing comes sooner than bread - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

A sigh seasons the roux - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"

Whose calendar is sighs - Susan Coolidge "A Year"

Immaculate sigh of stars - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"

A cure for sorrow from sighs I'd borrow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"

The autumn's dying sigh - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"

And sigh for lack of heaven - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love VI"

Sighs, tears, and oaths - John Donne "Lovers' Infiniteness"

And hear the sighing of the universal sea - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

As the sigh of a zephyr in June - Arthur M. Forrester "An Old Irish Tune"

Faded from the room of sighs - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

The passing tribute of a sigh - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Of the sigher's stream - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"

Learn to gather sighs - Kimberly Grey "Epithalamium ABC"

Became a factory of sighs - Kimberly Grey "A Reconstruction of Memory"

Chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath - Angelina Weld Grimke "A Winter Twilight"

None save the north-wind's sighs - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Salutation"

Pines sigh but it isn't the wind - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson

Too remote to be worthy a sigh - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Sorrow's watch of sighs - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander

New-born odors on the sighing breeze - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

To expend in sighs for this hard doom - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

The wind lacks even strength to sigh - Richard Hughes "Weald"

That my sighs may be borne on the wind - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The wound from a sigh - Alexander Jamieson "A Sigh and a Smile"

With sighs dissolved into showers - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

And cannot sleep for sighs - Archibald Lampman "June"

A night of memories and of sighs - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"

With sighs and bitter tears invoked - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Rise up with repeated sighs - Li Po "Song of a Dream Visit to T'ien-mu: Farewell to Those I Leave Behind" transl. by Burton Watson

One long sigh piled on another - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

Or the sigh of ant - Thomas Lux "The Republic of Anesthesia"

cartilage sighing apart like petals - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

Mist and the breath of sighs - Ronald Campbell MacFie "Song"

With fog of futile sighs - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

A sigh from the slumber of earth and sky - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

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

Sighs of enchanted sleep - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"

Across the waters and the sighing reeds - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

Left on her the burden of their sighs - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

The exhale of our solitary sighs - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

A life measured by sighs - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Sigh as the tide rises - Mary Oliver "Riprap"

Winds that sighed in Homer's strings - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

And give my smiles for sighs - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"

Solemn sighs the hollow wind - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

All your sighs and tears unbind - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Written Upon Love's Frontier-Post"

Answered to mock my sigh - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"

Sighs of vast surrender - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ardour"

Better than soot or algae's wet sigh - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Trembling lips pour the sad dirge of sighing - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Sighing calamity beneath a beleaguered sun - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Alone with the night wind's sigh - Rennell Rodd "Where the Rhone Goes Down to the Sea"

Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Sighing melodies to a strange giant - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

To roam without sorrow or sigh - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Wishes"

Glance of the eye and sweetheart's sigh - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

The sighful branches of my mind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

The sigh of remembered names, the wine of remembered youth - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

Querulous ghosts that sigh and awaken and move - Arthur Stringer "March Twilight"

That had sighed to her light of old - Arthur Stringer "A Summer Night"

The winds of our sighs speed the flow - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The echo of a sigh beside the loud, resounding sea - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Out of the birth-place of sighs - Priscilla Jane Thompson "A Valentine"

Sighs mournfully under the midnight moon - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]

Indolent ripple sighing at the keel - Iris Tree "Islands"

That Endymion sighed to yield his spirit - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Scarce more audible than sighs - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

And then stand looking back and sighing at our choice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"

The sound off the sighing sea - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"

The smile that proves the parent to a sigh - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

A transient sigh for sorrows of his own - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)


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