Potential Titles: Sorrow
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somethingdarkerThough the house of sorrow be vast - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Sorrow takes different names - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Floats there no shade of sorrow - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
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"
When in sorrow none with him to share - "An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life: or, the Comforts of Marriage Confirm'd and Vindicated" [1709]
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"
The timeless light banished time and sorrow - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
Where sorrow enters never - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The heart untouched by sorrow - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Neglected my sorrowful soul - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
As though some spell in sorrow bound him - "The Bakchesarian Fountain: A Tale of the Tauride" transl. by William D. Lewis
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]
Sang him sorrow's song to make him wary - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
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"
Over the body of your last slain sorrow - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Forgetfulness"
Softest on sorrow's wound - William Lisle Bowles "Time"
Time and change and sorrow - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rhapsody"
But I pluck the willow of sorrow - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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"
Spiritual amnesia is surely my sorrow - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Break each finite fetter of sorrow - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"
I have dwelt in the darkness of sorrow - Evelyn Gage Browne "Victory"
Ere the sorrow comes with years - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]
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"
In his last days had not a sorrow to deplore - Bliss Carman "December in Scituate"
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
The balm less all-embracing sorrows know - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath III"
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"
Born of the sorrowful heart - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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 slighted moments steal away, and then comes sorrow - J.D. [Julia Day] "A Meditation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
The bitter smart of sorrow - T.A. Daly "To a Robin"
Streets filled with sorrow - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
A prayer book tinted with red sorrow - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
Sorrow of an adverse fate - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Shed dim tears in Sorrow's pew - Jean de Esque "[To those that felt the wand of Muse]"
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)
In her eyes all human sorrow burned - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Vision"
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"
Waft no token of grace to this sorrowful realm - Mary B. Dodge "Overdue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
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"
In this cycle of great sorrow - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"
The voices of sorrow appealing - A.E. "Love"
Escape through the Gate of Sorrow - A.E. "A Way of Escape"
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"
Truth must hidden lie if unlit by Sorrow's eye - George Eliot "Self and Life"
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
Heavy clouds of sorrow make dark thy path - Charlotte Elliott "Wednesday Evening"
Sail your boat of sorrow to another shore - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
And my tears augment her sorrows - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Nothing can I bring, thy sorrows to alleviate - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Would but make my sorrows yet more poignant - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ere you know aught fully, what avail your sorrows? - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
He who stupefied with sorrow sits upon the tomb - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The galling yoke of sorrow and mischance - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Vanished and hath heaped conspicuous sorrows - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Immoderate are the sorrows I endure - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
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"
I must jest while sorrow's knife stabs in ecstasy - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
the moonlight that eased someone else's sorrow - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
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"
Have faced each sorrow the years renew - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"
Set all the sorrowful solitudes singing - Robin Flower "The Little Wee Lad"
A little burnt sorrow - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Where even joy of sorrow speaks - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Believe not Sorrow - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Tell a tale of changeless sorrow - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
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"
Down on us all drops the sorrowful rain - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
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"
Give sorrow to the winds that blow - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
More old in sorrow than in years - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
A strong sorrow held in strong control - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
Blighted by that sorrowful farewell - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
The sorrow of thirsting for sounds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Summer Songs"
Sorrows more deep than his fears - Dora Read Goodale "The Grumbler" [St. Nicholas v.V no.2, Dec. 1877]
His eyes in tranced sorrow bound - Robert Graves "Jane"
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]
Harbingers ushering joy or sorrow - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
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"
When the red and golden leaves have fallen on my sorrow - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Sorrow and want shall never touch thee - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
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"
Lips where Sorrow lays her spell - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Set upon sorrow's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
Sought consolation in the sorrow of your eyes - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Smiles flash from hearts in sorrow set - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
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"
So he who has sorrow shall have rest - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XVIII"
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"
In the bitter cup, o'erfilled with sorrow - Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler "The Parting Pledge" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
A world of sorrow and of sin - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
And all my sorrow lie with thee - anonymous? "Kemp Owyne"
Infinite tokens of sorrows set free - Henry Kendall "Deniehy's Dream"
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"
Pour his sorrow into little cups of song - Joyce Kilmer "The Proud Poet"
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"
When we are certain of sorrow in store - Rudyard Kipling "The Power of the Dog" [To Your Dog and to My Dog. PG. 1916]
Pay dear with sorrow for brief song - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
Blues & sorrow song called out of the deep night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
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"
Not only the arrow that delivers sorrow - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"
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 dark woods bow their heads in sorrow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
The many sorrows of life's galling chain - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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]
Some crown of sorrow sit upon a little world - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XI. In Prison"
The west wind is puffing sorrows into green ripples - Prince Li Chin "Thinking of Her Lover" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Drive away the sorrows of a thousand years - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drown the sorrow of a thousand generations - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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]
Be sorrow for those who have leisure for tears - Charles Mackay "The Dream of Lord Nithsdale" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
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"
The winds of sorrow have driven me down the bitter ways of time - Frederic Manning "The Lost Angel"
The cathedrals we've built out of sorrow - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Sorrow that cries like a tide - Jeannette Marks "The Nest"
The speech of many sorrows - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Condemnation of life, its silhouettes, its sorrows - José Mármol "Another April, Too Cruel" transl. by Eileen O'Connor
Wild sorrow's suffocating blast - George Martin "Eudora"
Where the shadow of my sorrow sheds its dark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 34" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
Whose sorrow in melodious madness flows - Justin H. McCarthy "Attar of Love"
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"
Molded in sorrow and sweetened by pain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Rain at the Mill"
Folios of unspeakable sorrow - Claire Millikin "Linear A and B"
That weight us with keenest sorrow and longest pain - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
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!"
A long melancholy strife betwixt her sorrows and her life - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, III"
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
A joy on the heart of a sorrow - Sarojini Naidu "Autumn Song"
The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow - Sarojini Naidu "Village-Song"
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"
The silences of joy are lost in sound of sorrow - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Antony to Cleopatra After Actium"
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]
Floats her sorrow on the gale - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
A bitterness beyond all sorrow's pangs - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Sells sorrows in bun-sized bits - Weija Pan "Immigrant Song at a Food Truck"
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"
The bitterness of sorrow taken from out my heart - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
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"
Rueful his lot, with sorrow encompassed - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
Miserably apportioned, with sorrow all surrounded - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
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"
Makes me feel less sense of sorrow - "Pleasures of Snuff-Taking" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
The sorrows of distance never scatter away - Po Chu-i "Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away" transl. by David Hinton
Takes the dregs from sorrow's bitter fount - Miss A.C. Pratt "The Power of Religion" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]
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"
But Sorrow and I already have met - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Philosophy"
Sorrow departs to his silent meres - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Philosophy"
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"
Watchful and solemn, in speechless sorrow bound - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Leaning upon sorrow's outstretched hand - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
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)"
While sorrow's storm is breaking - Morris Rosenfeld "To My Misery" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
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"
And chased the tear that sorrow sheds - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Bears a heavy chain of bitter sorrow - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
The source from whence his sorrows flow - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
Memory brings our sorrows all to light - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
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"
Those heralds mute of pleasing sorrow - Friederich Schiller "The Flowers" transl. not credited
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"
Into a tangled thicket of future hopes and sorrows - M. Bartley Seigel "A Good Omen"
Daily draw my sorrows longer - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
How hard true sorrow hits - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXX"
What chance can fall, what sorrow come - Edward Shanks "Fear in the Night"
Where creeping doubts and dumb, dull sorrows press - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Whatever score I have to settle with sorrow - Prageeta Sharma "Seattle Sun"
The shades of our sorrow and shapes of delight - Odell Shepard "The Hidden Weaver"
Many a strange and tragic old sorrow - Odell Shepard "Proem [A Lonely Flute 1917]
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"
The sorrow that splits us in half - Mahtem Shiferraw "Nomenclatures of Invisibility"
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"
That ever Mirth gave to be rear'd by Sorrow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
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"
Sorrow struggling with delight - Mrs. Seba Smith "Thou Hast Loved" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Thick seeds of sorrow he will sow - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
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]
Songs in the night-time of sorrow to give - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
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"
And only ghosts of old pale Sorrows walk - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
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]
Haughty acolytes of heavenly sorrows - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IV: Statues"
Found more joy in sorrow - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"
Sorrow steals from its hiding place - Sara Teasdale "Ebb Tide"
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"
Soothe the soul with sorrow aching - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
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"
Sorrow there has held a bridal with despair - Wm. Wallace "Perditi: Part Second" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.6, June 1842]
Swelling my hundred-year sorrow - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton
Countless mountains face each other in sorrow - Wang An-Shih "Gazing North" transl. by David Hinton
Scatter away through sorrows of cloud past - Wang An-Shih "Listening to Floodwater Past Midnight" transl. by David Hinton
Hold sorrow's every twist and turn - Wang An-Shih "Napping at noon" transl. by David Hinton
Hoping to drive off sorrow - Wang An-shih "Written for My Own Amusement" transl. by Burton Watson
Is there no limit to all this grief and sorrow? - Wang Wei "Wheel-Rim River Sequence" transl. by David Hinton
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"
To borrow comfort in the midst of sorrow - George Wither, born 1588, died 1677 "Poesie" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832]
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"
On our sorrow-trodden sphere - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
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Sorrow takes different names - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Floats there no shade of sorrow - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
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"
When in sorrow none with him to share - "An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life: or, the Comforts of Marriage Confirm'd and Vindicated" [1709]
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"
The timeless light banished time and sorrow - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
Where sorrow enters never - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The heart untouched by sorrow - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Neglected my sorrowful soul - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
As though some spell in sorrow bound him - "The Bakchesarian Fountain: A Tale of the Tauride" transl. by William D. Lewis
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]
Sang him sorrow's song to make him wary - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
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"
Over the body of your last slain sorrow - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Forgetfulness"
Softest on sorrow's wound - William Lisle Bowles "Time"
Time and change and sorrow - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rhapsody"
But I pluck the willow of sorrow - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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"
Spiritual amnesia is surely my sorrow - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Break each finite fetter of sorrow - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"
I have dwelt in the darkness of sorrow - Evelyn Gage Browne "Victory"
Ere the sorrow comes with years - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]
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"
In his last days had not a sorrow to deplore - Bliss Carman "December in Scituate"
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
The balm less all-embracing sorrows know - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath III"
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"
Born of the sorrowful heart - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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 slighted moments steal away, and then comes sorrow - J.D. [Julia Day] "A Meditation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
The bitter smart of sorrow - T.A. Daly "To a Robin"
Streets filled with sorrow - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
A prayer book tinted with red sorrow - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
Sorrow of an adverse fate - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Shed dim tears in Sorrow's pew - Jean de Esque "[To those that felt the wand of Muse]"
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)
In her eyes all human sorrow burned - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Vision"
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"
Waft no token of grace to this sorrowful realm - Mary B. Dodge "Overdue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
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"
In this cycle of great sorrow - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"
The voices of sorrow appealing - A.E. "Love"
Escape through the Gate of Sorrow - A.E. "A Way of Escape"
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"
Truth must hidden lie if unlit by Sorrow's eye - George Eliot "Self and Life"
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
Heavy clouds of sorrow make dark thy path - Charlotte Elliott "Wednesday Evening"
Sail your boat of sorrow to another shore - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
And my tears augment her sorrows - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Nothing can I bring, thy sorrows to alleviate - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Would but make my sorrows yet more poignant - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ere you know aught fully, what avail your sorrows? - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
He who stupefied with sorrow sits upon the tomb - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The galling yoke of sorrow and mischance - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Vanished and hath heaped conspicuous sorrows - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Immoderate are the sorrows I endure - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
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"
I must jest while sorrow's knife stabs in ecstasy - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
the moonlight that eased someone else's sorrow - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
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"
Have faced each sorrow the years renew - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"
Set all the sorrowful solitudes singing - Robin Flower "The Little Wee Lad"
A little burnt sorrow - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Where even joy of sorrow speaks - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Believe not Sorrow - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Tell a tale of changeless sorrow - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
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"
Down on us all drops the sorrowful rain - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
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"
Give sorrow to the winds that blow - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
More old in sorrow than in years - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
A strong sorrow held in strong control - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
Blighted by that sorrowful farewell - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
The sorrow of thirsting for sounds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Summer Songs"
Sorrows more deep than his fears - Dora Read Goodale "The Grumbler" [St. Nicholas v.V no.2, Dec. 1877]
His eyes in tranced sorrow bound - Robert Graves "Jane"
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]
Harbingers ushering joy or sorrow - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
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"
When the red and golden leaves have fallen on my sorrow - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Sorrow and want shall never touch thee - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
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"
Lips where Sorrow lays her spell - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Set upon sorrow's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
Sought consolation in the sorrow of your eyes - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Smiles flash from hearts in sorrow set - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
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"
So he who has sorrow shall have rest - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XVIII"
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"
In the bitter cup, o'erfilled with sorrow - Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler "The Parting Pledge" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
A world of sorrow and of sin - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
And all my sorrow lie with thee - anonymous? "Kemp Owyne"
Infinite tokens of sorrows set free - Henry Kendall "Deniehy's Dream"
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"
Pour his sorrow into little cups of song - Joyce Kilmer "The Proud Poet"
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"
When we are certain of sorrow in store - Rudyard Kipling "The Power of the Dog" [To Your Dog and to My Dog. PG. 1916]
Pay dear with sorrow for brief song - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
Blues & sorrow song called out of the deep night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
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"
Not only the arrow that delivers sorrow - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"
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 dark woods bow their heads in sorrow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
The many sorrows of life's galling chain - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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]
Some crown of sorrow sit upon a little world - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XI. In Prison"
The west wind is puffing sorrows into green ripples - Prince Li Chin "Thinking of Her Lover" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Drive away the sorrows of a thousand years - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drown the sorrow of a thousand generations - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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]
Be sorrow for those who have leisure for tears - Charles Mackay "The Dream of Lord Nithsdale" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
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"
The winds of sorrow have driven me down the bitter ways of time - Frederic Manning "The Lost Angel"
The cathedrals we've built out of sorrow - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Sorrow that cries like a tide - Jeannette Marks "The Nest"
The speech of many sorrows - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Condemnation of life, its silhouettes, its sorrows - José Mármol "Another April, Too Cruel" transl. by Eileen O'Connor
Wild sorrow's suffocating blast - George Martin "Eudora"
Where the shadow of my sorrow sheds its dark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 34" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
Whose sorrow in melodious madness flows - Justin H. McCarthy "Attar of Love"
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"
Molded in sorrow and sweetened by pain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Rain at the Mill"
Folios of unspeakable sorrow - Claire Millikin "Linear A and B"
That weight us with keenest sorrow and longest pain - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
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!"
A long melancholy strife betwixt her sorrows and her life - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, III"
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
A joy on the heart of a sorrow - Sarojini Naidu "Autumn Song"
The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow - Sarojini Naidu "Village-Song"
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"
The silences of joy are lost in sound of sorrow - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Antony to Cleopatra After Actium"
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]
Floats her sorrow on the gale - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
A bitterness beyond all sorrow's pangs - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Sells sorrows in bun-sized bits - Weija Pan "Immigrant Song at a Food Truck"
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"
The bitterness of sorrow taken from out my heart - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
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"
Rueful his lot, with sorrow encompassed - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
Miserably apportioned, with sorrow all surrounded - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
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"
Makes me feel less sense of sorrow - "Pleasures of Snuff-Taking" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
The sorrows of distance never scatter away - Po Chu-i "Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away" transl. by David Hinton
Takes the dregs from sorrow's bitter fount - Miss A.C. Pratt "The Power of Religion" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]
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"
But Sorrow and I already have met - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Philosophy"
Sorrow departs to his silent meres - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Philosophy"
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"
Watchful and solemn, in speechless sorrow bound - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Leaning upon sorrow's outstretched hand - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
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)"
While sorrow's storm is breaking - Morris Rosenfeld "To My Misery" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
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"
And chased the tear that sorrow sheds - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Bears a heavy chain of bitter sorrow - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
The source from whence his sorrows flow - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
Memory brings our sorrows all to light - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
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"
Those heralds mute of pleasing sorrow - Friederich Schiller "The Flowers" transl. not credited
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"
Into a tangled thicket of future hopes and sorrows - M. Bartley Seigel "A Good Omen"
Daily draw my sorrows longer - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
How hard true sorrow hits - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXX"
What chance can fall, what sorrow come - Edward Shanks "Fear in the Night"
Where creeping doubts and dumb, dull sorrows press - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Whatever score I have to settle with sorrow - Prageeta Sharma "Seattle Sun"
The shades of our sorrow and shapes of delight - Odell Shepard "The Hidden Weaver"
Many a strange and tragic old sorrow - Odell Shepard "Proem [A Lonely Flute 1917]
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"
The sorrow that splits us in half - Mahtem Shiferraw "Nomenclatures of Invisibility"
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"
That ever Mirth gave to be rear'd by Sorrow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
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"
Sorrow struggling with delight - Mrs. Seba Smith "Thou Hast Loved" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Thick seeds of sorrow he will sow - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
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]
Songs in the night-time of sorrow to give - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
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"
And only ghosts of old pale Sorrows walk - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
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]
Haughty acolytes of heavenly sorrows - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IV: Statues"
Found more joy in sorrow - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"
Sorrow steals from its hiding place - Sara Teasdale "Ebb Tide"
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"
Soothe the soul with sorrow aching - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
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"
Sorrow there has held a bridal with despair - Wm. Wallace "Perditi: Part Second" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.6, June 1842]
Swelling my hundred-year sorrow - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton
Countless mountains face each other in sorrow - Wang An-Shih "Gazing North" transl. by David Hinton
Scatter away through sorrows of cloud past - Wang An-Shih "Listening to Floodwater Past Midnight" transl. by David Hinton
Hold sorrow's every twist and turn - Wang An-Shih "Napping at noon" transl. by David Hinton
Hoping to drive off sorrow - Wang An-shih "Written for My Own Amusement" transl. by Burton Watson
Is there no limit to all this grief and sorrow? - Wang Wei "Wheel-Rim River Sequence" transl. by David Hinton
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"
To borrow comfort in the midst of sorrow - George Wither, born 1588, died 1677 "Poesie" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832]
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"
On our sorrow-trodden sphere - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
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