Potential Titles: Sorrow

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Though the house of sorrow be vast - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Sorrow takes different names - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

That splendid sorrows might endure - Anna Akhmatova "[Like a white stone]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Removes the sorrowful mask of defeat - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"

Raised to a sorrow song - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

Singing a song of ancient days, in sorrow, not in pride - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"

Soft pity's sorrowing look - "The Alter'd Lay"

Bid good-bye to sorrow - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

A sorrow in those shadows as they lengthen - Lennox Amott "When the Twilight Shadows Deepen"

The luxury of sorrow - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

That lights the sorrowing sinner back - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"

The liquid notes of sorrow songs - Maya Angelou "A Georgia Song"

Nor keep the place from Sorrow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCVI: Sleeplessness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

And Sorrow usurps her control - "Apostrophe to Health" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Shall rise through sorrow's mist - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"

Neglected my sorrowful soul - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Age by sorrow and care and tears - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

How deeply drugged on daily sorrows - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

Celebrating the passage and the sorrow - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"

wear down my sorrow - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"

Tears of sorrow for the summer - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Dead Summer"

When tempests of sorrow were shrouding the sky - Cora C. Bass "Comrades"

A gentle word in sorrow's ear - Cora C. Bass "No Blessing Ever Comes by Chance"

Horror's oasis in the sands of sorrow - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Lift the sorrow from my mind - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Who close the eyes of Sorrow - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

So deeply stained with sorrow's dye - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Folded my sorrows like fitted sheets - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"

To wipe the bitter tear from Sorrow's eye - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The thick red sorrow of sunsets - Paul Bernstein "After Hours"

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres - Laurence Binyon "For the Fallen"

To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Feel my sorrow's share - William Blake "On Another's Sorrow"

The wren with sorrows small - William Blake "On Another's Sorrow"

Raining away my sorrows - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

Grieve in her sorrowing house - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"

Softest on sorrow's wound - William Lisle Bowles "Time"

Time and change and sorrow - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rhapsody"

Sorrow's myriad armies - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 25"

Thy sorrow too shall go - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 32"

Was born in sorrow - Geoffrey Brock "Father Countries"

Can lift full, heavy sorrow - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"

To our sorrowing hearth, return - Anne Bronte "Domestic Peace"

Sorrow and strife to greet - Anne Bronte "Stanzas [Oh, weep not, love!]"

My sorrow touches none - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

The pale blight of time and sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"

By daring wilder sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Passion"

Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"

Till sorrow's source were dry - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

And sorrow grows familiar - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

A sorrow on the air I taste but cannot name - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

My sorrow crowns me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Recoil before that sorrow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Trod sorrow up - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Through sorrow’s trick - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XVIII in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

Between sorrow and sorrow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

As if telling their sorrows - Sue Budin "'Passport, 1954'"

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

Merging into sorrow's day - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Morning on Shinnecock"

A galaxy of delight and sorrow - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Hark! the wind is sorrowing still - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Whose dangers, mirth, sorrows, and dwelling he shared - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

All sorrow's fiends accurst - W. Wilfred Campbell "Her Look"

An old sorrow that has put out the sun - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Dance"

No sorrow for my sorrow - Ethna Carbery "In Tir-na'n-Og"

Sea-sands and sorrows - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"

The dawning light of sorrow and scorn - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Knowing nothing of the bliss of sorrow borne - Edward Carpenter "Death"

With the piercing flame of endless sorrow - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"

Soothed her secret sorrow - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"

Sorrows in her heart of gold - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "St. Patrick's Treasure"

Sorrow stalks by the pilgrim's side - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Untroubled by visions of coming sorrow - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Sorrow keeps a stone house - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"

But sorrow came not - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

To sorrowing hearts a gracious promise - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

When sorrow's clouds are circling - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Unstrung by her heart's first sorrow - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"

Or sorrows strike him - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Going home without my sorrow - Leonard Cohen "Going Home"

Whispers like sorrow - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Wave"

Borne full many a sorrow - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

Men die, but sorrow never - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"

Who buys sorrow cheapest - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Sisters in nameless sorrow - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

Without the sorrows of a slow decay - George Crabbe "The Village"

Has ploughed thro' years of sorrow deep - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"

Steered by stars that sorrowed - Nathalia Crane "The Salamander Isles"

The poppy half in sorrow - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"

Adding the dead, dividing the living, multiplying the sorrows - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

And handed me to sorrow - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"

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

City of sorrow and desire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"

The bitter smart of sorrow - T.A. Daly "To a Robin"

A prayer book tinted with red sorrow - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"

All her sorrows, bitter rue - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

Prey to pain and sorrow's sword - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Freed from the sorrows I lament - Christine de Pisan "Virelay [Sweet, in whom my joy must be]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

You are not to blame for my sorrow - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

Brings seasons of sorrow - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "Thoughts on Creation"

Sorrow the sparrow's steel cord - Chelsea Dingman "Here, the Sparrows Were, All Along"

My long wound, my bitter sorrow - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Sorrow's true and only friend - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"

Each onlooker's single deepest sorrow unremarked - Chris Dombrowski "Brook Trout"

Only Sorrow's pencil would ever dare to sketch - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

I do not want to give sorrow - Jeanne d'Orge "The Interpreter (Sixteen Years)"

Feed on a living sorrow's sacredness - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

The tender Sorrows of the twilight - Edward Dowden "A Song of the New Day"

One lone cry of sorrow - Edward Dowden "Where Wert Thou?"

The frozen sorrows of unsceptred days - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

The starlike sorrows of immortal eyes - Carol Ann Duffy "Beautiful"

To weigh as she counted their sorrow - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"

We're buying the world's sorrow - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

A pint of joy and a peck of sorrow - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Life"

The voices of sorrow appealing - A.E. "Love"

Diamond of sorrows infinite - T.W. Earp "Our Lady of Light"

To sorrow move all minds - Max Eastman "Thought of Protagoras"

Deliberately in that twilight sorrow - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"

Then usher Sorrow to thy board - Helen Parry Eden "Sorrow"

Holds their sorrow in the marrow - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

Fierce battles between sorrow and hope - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author

I inherited this sorrow - Aziz Isa Elkun "Roses" transl. by author

Sail your boat of sorrow to another shore - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The heft and shimmer of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"

But what can you tell me of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"

No human sorrow fearing - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"

Mingled with sorrowing tears - George Blackstone Field "The Breaker of the Trail"

To earth by sorrow bowed - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous

Scarlet threads of sorrow - John Gould Fletcher "The Endless Lament"

Who has taken sins and sorrows - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"

A little burnt sorrow - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Believe not Sorrow - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Had learned to wear the crown of sorrow - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Sits a little while at Sorrow's feet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"

To discover love that lurks in sorrow's smart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton

Yet make his sorrowing subjects dwell on both - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Your sorrow unmasked - Kahlil Gibran "On Joy and Sorrow"

Her crown is jeweled with seven sorrows - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"

Cast the charts of our radiant sorrow - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"

Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

The sorrow of thirsting for sounds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Summer Songs"

Sit her down mute as Sorrow's daughter - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Whatever sorrow shadows you - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"

Years of trial and of sorrow - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

And the way so blank and sorrowed - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Let your chambers show no sorrow - Thomas Hardy "To a Well-Named Dwelling"

With wisdom born of sorrow - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"

Sorrows quell our insurrection - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander

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

With proud sorrow in their eyes - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"

Employ no sorrowful thing - F.W. Harvey "Happy Singing"

Sleep, the balm of sorrow - F.W. Harvey "The Sleepers"

That hosts the most private sorrows - Yona Harvey "Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime"

Except for spendthrift sorrow - Robert Hass "First Things at the Last Minute"

Where Sorrow walks with Sin - James M. Hayes "Old Nuns"

In despite of sorrow's dark control - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"

Sorrow swells in every gale - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Through sorrow's lingering year - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Blends with indignant sorrow - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

But what is sweet in sorrow - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"

Be mine alone the darkness and the sorrow - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

With night we banish sorrow - Thomas Heywood "Good-Morrow"

Sits long inside his last sorrow - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

To spackle our sorrow in ochre - Anna Maria Hong "We Were"

And sorrow on the shore - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"

Rich with ripe sorrow, needful of no word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Who ever knew sorrow in all its shades - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Set upon sorrow's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

The sumless tale of sorrow is all unrolled in vain - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIV"

Dust's your wages, son of sorrow - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIV"

We still had sorrows to lighten - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad L"

Sorrow with dust in her hair - Langston Hughes "Song for Billie Holiday"

{a cool drink of sorrow} {laced with gold} - fahima ife "thirst is a way of knowing, not knowing"

Free, as sorrow is - Jean Ingelow "The Letter L"

The sorrows all the centuries provide - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh

Morn breaks on the longest night of sorrow - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Frail children of sorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"

Shadowed by Sorrow's somber wing - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

Forgetting all past sorrow - James Weldon Johnson "Only Trust Me"

Hath sorrow more to weep? - Lionel Johnson "A Burden of Easter Vigil"

Which is sorrow's perfect breath - Lionel Johnson "Hawthorne"

Eternal sorrow finds eternal voice - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"

That suffered not a moment's waste in sorrow - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

With the leaden weight of sorrowing years - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

A partner in your sorrow's mysteries - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Evening mists of doubt and sorrow - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

Then rest content with sorrow - Fanny Kemble "On a Musical Box"

A world of sorrow and of sin - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

And all my sorrow lie with thee - anonymous? "Kemp Owyne"

Bitter tides of sorrow roll - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

Sorrowing from Eden's threshold came - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"

With tears and sorrow marred - Joyce Kilmer "The Morning Meditations of Frere Hyacinthus"

We are the ships of sorrow - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Disperse this sorrow's cloud - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Pay dear with sorrow for brief song - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

The poor bread of your sorrow - Ted Kooser "Lobocraspis griseifusa"

Water does not feel sorrow nor care - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

Stepping with hospitable sorrow around the bodies - Youna Kwak "After"

And with smiling sorrow - Archibald Lampman "The Song of Pan"

And sorrowed in a thousand worlds - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

The motley that his sorrow wore - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles"

The urge to reach for your sorrow - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"

Morning brought sorrow, but Eve bids it cease - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"

While counting years by sorrow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Its mouthful of sorrows - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

When sorrows crowd the soul - Lermontof "Prayer [In moments of life's trial]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Drive away the sorrows of a thousand years - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

That danced right through sorrow - M.L. Liebler "The Mist Spirit of Everything"

To be the General of Sorrow - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

What have we left at the altar of sorrow? - Cecilia Llompart "Omens"

Sorrow and care shall he have with me - "Lovel and John" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

My heart is tuned to sorrow - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"

To swallow a mouthful of sorrow - Amy Lowell "La Ronde du Diable"

That binds us to our sorrow - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Words to paint her frantic sorrow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

To break the chain that sorrow wears - Arthur Macy "All on a Golden Summer Day"

In one long dream of sorrow - Arthur Macy "At Twilight Time"

Fireflies glow with their particular sorrow - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

Sorrow that cries like a tide - Jeannette Marks "The Nest"

The speech of many sorrows - Jeannette Marks "Proem"

Wild sorrow's suffocating blast - George Martin "Eudora"

Grown old with sorrowing men - John Masefield "King Cole"

Tell my sorrows to the winds of dawn - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Sorrow knocked at my door - Edgar Lee Masters "George Gray"

Who have no wish for a sorrow lightened - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"

Ancient sorrows that were sealed - Theodore Maynard "Lyric Love"

Or pluck one pang of sorrow - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"

Pain and sorrow woven - Theodore Maynard "To Any Saint"

Crucified Land of Sorrows - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"

Haunts our source of sorrows - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

On all the lonely sorrows of the earth - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

And what does sorrow care - Edna St Vincent Millay "Kin to Sorrow"

Kin to sorrow - Edna St Vincent Millay "Kin to Sorrow"

Under sorrow’s hand - Edna St Vincent Millay "Kin to Sorrow"

Folios of unspeakable sorrow - Claire Millikin "Linear A and B"

Worked so hard for my sorrow - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

Where evening would obscure our sorrow - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Drains sorrow's chalice dry - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Leave those vaults of pain and sorrow - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"

Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"

For sorrow's channels then were sealed - Morna "Ianthe"

A pile of sorrow - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"

Brushed the dust off of my sorrows - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Your hands with sorrow wring - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"

Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"

Bade all sorrow's wounds be healed - Francis Neilson "In Blue and Purple Clad"

Poured on the shoulders of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The shrouded throb of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "The Day Will Come" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Boughs of sorrowful coral - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Listened to all the sorrowful salt - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Rising up like seeds of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Portrait of the Man" transl. by Teresa Anderson

Flew around the mountains of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Time that Wasn't Lost" transl. by William O'Daly

When sorrow gathers memories in a sheaf - E. Nesbit "A Prayer for the King's Majesty"

Trodden oceanic sorrow - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"

With what ageless charge of sorrow and deep joy - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

Contain a thousand years' sorrow - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

My sorrows being hidden - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

The wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Primroses grown crazy with sorrow - Alice Notley "World's Bliss"

Upon the cheek of sorrow - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Catches the thread of all sorrows - Naomi Shihab Nye "Kindness"

Swam through sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Mediterranean Blue"

The long sorrow of the color red - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Small Vases from Hebron"

Even on a sorrowing day - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tray"

A place that let us all sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"

Whose beauty is my sorrow - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"

Black sorrow sheds an eclipse on our glory - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Heirloom to all the sorrowing nations of the earth - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

An arctic sorrow - Meghan O'Rourke "Unforced Error"

Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"

Far into the country of Sorrow - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Cover the place of each sorrow - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Poured the whole sorrow of years - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Who sorrow for our darkened hours - "Our Friends Abroad" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

To make so many taste sorrow - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Sorrow clings to my apron-strings - Dorothy Parker "Anecdote"

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"

Robes of sorrow - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

And Sorrow may not sit alone - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"

Should sorrow spring from duty, too? - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Lashing out in anger and sorrow - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"

An ability to feel sorrow - Carl Phillips "Affliction"

Easier to bear than sorrow - Carl Phillips "Electric"

Ravens the precise color of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Leda, After the Swan"

To the staggered weightlessness of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Meanwhile, and Anyway"

At the exact center of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"

Sorrow cloud thy coming years - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

Lights the dark vale of sorrow - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

Sorrow, veiled in scornful pride - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Never Again"

And wove in nets of sorrow - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Two Worlds"

Made of sorrow a sail - Sina Queyras "Mummy"

Weary of the city's sorrow - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To the Earth"

The great sorrow of brightness - Jeremy Radin "Evening"

Bring not back the past, to brim our cup of sorrow - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Down the sorrow of the wind - Herbert Randall "Cry of the Wounded Loon"

Until his sorrow became his action - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

A tale of sin, of suffering, and sorrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Contain and conduct the sorrow within - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

An ocean of sorrow would murmur and sigh - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The First Tooth"

To chase the dark sorrow - Henry Scott Riddell "Flora's Lament"

Enshrouds the spirit sorrowing pale - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

To mime with sorrow for a mask - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

No syllable of sorrow - James Whitcombe Riley "To Edgar Wilson"

A ghost of sorrows gone - Charles G.D. Roberts "In a City Room"

With a thousand sorrows forgotten - Charles G.D. Roberts "A Nocturne of Trysting"

Cheated wisdom for the sake of sorrow - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"

But we went from the sorrowful city and wandered - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Where the sorrows of our singers lie - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"

Sorrows without grief - Luis J. Rodriguez "Fevered Shapes"

Words of sorrowing tenderness - Alice Wellington Rollins "The Difference"

Could feed a multitude with our sorrows - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Comfort in the season of sorrow - Rumi "The Beloved the Divine Consoler" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Restrained by pure-eyed Sorrow's hand - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

Sorrows by time made dim - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems VI: Northumbria.--A Dirge"

From the valleys of sorrow below - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"

sorrow knew me in the early hours - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"

Your skull for its sorrows - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"

Carve our sorrows on the face of joy - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"

The sorrows of the barren year - George Santayana "Avila"

Wear the garment of its sorrow - George Santayana "Premonition"

The bread of sorrow leaven - George Santayana "Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set]"

Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"

Discovery is always tinged with sorrow - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"

A grammar of sorrow and intuitive echoes - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"

Now sorrow seemed ascendent - Clinton Scollard "Night by the Sea"

Sought to borrow sleep from sorrow - Frederick George Scott "Sorrow's Waking"

Daily draw my sorrows longer - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

How hard true sorrow hits - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXX"

Where creeping doubts and dumb, dull sorrows press - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Whatever score I have to settle with sorrow - Prageeta Sharma "Seattle Sun"

Earth's forgetfulness of sorrow - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"

My heart eaten out with sorrow - Taras Shevchenko "A Dream" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Hurled by sorrow wave on wave - Taras Shevchenko "To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Disassemble the sorrow of beginnings - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

Sorrow in the cries of moor-fowls - Winfield Shiras "Sonnet"

Into the sorrows of a weeping world - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Little Dog"

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

The pale and sorrowful desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"

Who lifts me out of sorrow - Hope Anita Smith "Superheroes"

Sorrow's storm with bitter breath - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

For Sorrow's fast on Friday - "The Song of the Seven Archangels" transl. by Ernest Rhys

Out of my sorrow I'll build a stair - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"

The sorrow of white paper - Elizabeth Spires "A Little Song"

The grief from sorrow's bitter cup - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"

In the Museum of Sorrow stand - A.E. Stallings "Funereal Stelae: Kerameikos, Athens"

A sorrow you call teeth - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"

While their hearts in sorrows move - "The Star-Gemmed Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

In the night-time or sorrow - E. Clementine Stedman "Stanzas"

The sorrow of Time's laughter - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"

Half sorrow and half peace - George Sterling "Beneath the Redwoods"

Sorrow and Art made Love - George Sterling "A Character"

Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"

Where winds of sorrow blow - George Sterling "Evanescence"

Hold the sorrows of the wind - George Sterling "Lost Companion"

That sorrow in the ocean's voice - George Sterling "Music"

Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"

A rose of sorrow and change - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"

Sorrow's star, forlornly cold - George Sterling "Reborn"

Inventions of sorrow - Wallace Stevens "Esthetique du Mal"

From that sky where sorrow swirls - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"

Made me turn liquid with sorrow - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

In the sorrowful greys and muffled violets - Arthur Stringer "Autumn"

On my brow the iron crown of sorrow - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"

This haunted room where Sorrow and I have slept - Arthur Stringer "The House of Life"

My fears, in bitterness and sorrow, void of tears - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"

Bright throne in her sorrowing heart - J.T.S. Sullivan "Elizabeth"

What years have passed of sorrow - Rev. William B. Tappan "Stanzas" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Tell my sorrows to the Moon - Abdikheyir Khelil Tawakkul "Sharing My Sorrow" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Sorrowing birds in Autumn went - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Found more joy in sorrow - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"

Too sorrowful a fire - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Precious beads of hope are pearled on each sorrow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

Pearled on each sorrow through the world - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

The Leaf of many Sorrows - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"

Make me music to my sorrow - "Tom o' Bedlam"

Cluster grapes of sorrow - Jean Toomer "Face"

In their last scorn of sorrow - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

the grateful host for our sorrows and our joys - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

A note of sorrow trembling yet - Henry van Dyke "The Parting and the Coming Guest"

Away from every careful sorrow - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"

Fearless of sorrow and fearless of time - Wa Wa Chaw "The Indians' Spirit"

Allow me this great sorrow - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"

Give rein to all their sorrows - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Make all your sorrow neat - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Hoping to drive off sorrow - Wang An-shih "Written for My Own Amusement" transl. by Burton Watson

Of the drink that drowns sorrow - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"

Have bartered your flickering dance for sorrow - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"

To soothe one sorrow - Kate Louise Wheeler "My Petition"

Shall I not sing for sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "The Dear Mystery"

Shall sorrow for my love - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"

Like a bright sword of sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

To wake you to your sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

The old sorrow we loved before - John Hall Wheelock "Sorrowful Freedom"

Whose sorrows overflowed the world - John Hall Wheelock "Tchaikovsky: Fifth Symphony"

The wine of consolation pressed from sorrows - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Legacy"

Have known great gold Sorrows - Margaret Widdemer "The Jester"

Praise too our sorrows - Richard Wilbur "Psalm"

They stitch joy to sorrow - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Spring"

And to sorrow never yield - Myra Viola Wilds "Sunshine"

The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

Sorrow is my own yard - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"

That sorrow ever bore - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"

My dance under sorrow's tree - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

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

The ancients had their mountains of sorrow - Yang Wan-li "Relaxing in the Evening in My Study, the Wo-chi-chai" transl. by Burton Watson

Upon the wharves of sorrow - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Where old sorrows lie forgotten - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

All the beauty and sorrow of my life - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"


A heart high-sorrowful and cloyed - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"

Disappear upon the sorrow-mingled pathway - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Garret" transl. by Frank Sewall

Such sorrow-soothing music - Francis Fahy "Killiney Far Away"

By the sorrow-struck heart - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

Hot beneath this sorrow-studded shield - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"


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