Potential Titles: Tears

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The joyful harvest of our tears - A.L.O.E. "Death Is Not Dreadful"

Sown in blood and tears - A.L.O.E. "New Year's Hymn: Written at the Time of the Indian Mutiny, 1857"

A boat afloat on a river of tears - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

My misery dropped golden tears - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

Coax a courteous isolated tear - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

The world made new by past tears - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Tears of the dinosaurs clicking on window panes - Linda Addison "Evolving"

They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

Of journeys where salt tears bled - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

After the vows and the happy tears - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

In dirt damp with blood and tears - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"

Tears on the gentian's eyelids - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Her Cradle"

The explosive releasing moment of a tear - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

Salt my tongue on hardened tears - Maya Angelou "Mourning Grace"

Not tears by a hard-bought mirth - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"

The acetate tears of a flickering film - Mary Jo Bang "Part of a Larger Picture"

Slow mists gather in shrouding tears - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

As old as the first drop of mortal tears - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"

Forgetting the tears of the darker years - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

Ocean salt and tear salt - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"

Collect the candle's tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

fears no nearer to relief than tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

I have no tears to defend - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

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

Brimmed with a million tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Made a river with her tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

In the shade and tears of gall - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited

In his hollow hand the tear of snow - Charles Baudelaire "The Sadness of the Moon" transl. not credited

Of all who drink of tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Evening sees us bathed in tears - James Beattie "The Hares, a Fable"

Seas in tears, seas in flame - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

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

Bright tears may Envy shed - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"

Shall flow with tears of gold - William Blake "Night"

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

But only fill afresh his meed of laughter, his cup of tears - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"

To relish the watchers' tears - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Icicle tears from the ice-bound years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"

Learning to swim in my tears - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"

My steep track of anguish and tears - Vera M. Brittain "A Parting Word"

With floods of silent tears - Anne Bronte "To Cowper"

Which will not dawn on grief and tears - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Shed not the tear of acrid gall - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Have seen their morning melt in tears - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"

Let time and tears destroy - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"

Counting future tears - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"

The tears that fill the years - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

No use for your tears - Jericho Brown "Riddle"

Kept holy to our tears - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The tears of my clean soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Between my tears - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XLI in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

And tears like those of spring - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"

Tears for the passing of winter - Sue Budin "Little Things"

Salt we know from tears - Sue Budin "Mouth"

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

My scattered tears preserve and reunite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. Second Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Laden with some dead woman's tears - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

Parted in silence and tears - Lord Byron "When we Two parted"

These tears of weird remorse - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"

Like brooks of human tears - W. Wilfred Campbell "Peniel"

Memory, down whose face the tears are streaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

Tear those idols from my heart - Thomas Carew "To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation of the Psalms"

Tears kindle not the doubtful spark - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

A vision formed by tears - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"

Of partings and of tears - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"

With your ointments mix your tears - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

A sea of tears and every soul a wave - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Paint, wax, fat dragon tears - May Chong "Kamcia"

Twice parting by your tears - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

Burned with tears and flower-melt - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Mix our wishes in a tokening tear - John Clare "To an April Daisy"

Fared on to the Well of Tears - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

Do not separate me from my tears - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

With a garland of freshly cut tears - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Devoted as a dog made of tears - Leonard Cohen "When Desire Rests"

Not alone these swelling tears - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Each tear turns to steam - Donte Collins "what the dead know by heart"

Ere I wore proud chains of diamonds, forged of bitter, frozen tears - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

Close to the fountain of our tears - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"

Tears to loosen the torment - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)

Must blessing reap in tears - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Trembling tears of dawn - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

This haunt of toil and tears - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

Baptised in a life of tears - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

The battle song of tears - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Makes rainbows of our tears - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Conscious of the tears I shed - William Cowper "Lines on Receiving His Mother's Picture"

Revocation of the tears - Hart Crane "Recitative"

The boys who taught me tears - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"

Red wells too deep to bring up tears - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

As lovers' tears should sanctify - Rev. William Crowe "Sonnet to Petrarch"

A costly morsel of sweet tears - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"

Pours disappointment's icy tears - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Night has become a temple for my tears - Olive Custance "Grief"

Tears dried in the light of revolt - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

Tight enough to choke back tears - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"

Underground salt mines of fiery tears - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"

Tears do not add up - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

Tear life from Time's calendars - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

Tears are the language of the unspeakable - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Forgot the scarlet for tears - Coningsby Dawson "Vanished Love"

Tears of an antique bitterness - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Feeding only on my tears - Christine de Pisan

Picasso dipped his brush in their tears - Diane DeCillis "Weeping Women"

Dipped his brush in their tears - Diane DeCillis "Weeping Women"

Thinks all cheeks should burn and feel how tears can run - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"

Coffers heaped with tears - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

The bottle in which you hold our tears - Chris Dombrowski "Early June, Missoula, Year of the Sheep"

The precise temperature of a tear - Chris Dombrowski "Ghazal in which End Word Repetition Is Implied"

Entreat one other tear to fall - John Donne "Lovers' Infiniteness"

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

That swallowed up the exile's tears - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"

Heal your hearts with tears - Dry Branch Fire Squad "Memories That Bless and Burn"

Counting all our tears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "We Wear the Mask"

Triumphant over grief and tears - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Pointed with forgotten tears- Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"

Tears would not help them - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

March past the threshold of tears - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Let my tears stream free - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

A tune of tears falling - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???

Tears falling where no man hears - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???

Nor be ashamed of tears - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Eternal Years"

Veil of dead smiles and forgotten tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"

In the dull coinage of leaden tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"

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

our slow glissage into the tears of heaven - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Seek our welcome in a silent tear - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

Too shattered by pain for tears - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

This prayer of mine be hallowed with a tear - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

Then tears came fast instead of words - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

And from our eyes exacted tears - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

Born to crumble under salt and tears - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Did not shed a stone tear - Vievee Francis "The Bone Boiler"

The burning tears of wild despair - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Warmer than her tears - Theodosia Garrison "A Ballad of Halloween"

Murmuring laughter and heart-easing tears - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

His shield a tear of sadness - W.S. Gilbert "The Rival Curates"

No joy inside tears - brian g. gilmore "living for the city (for stevie wonder)"

False tears that tangle in your lashes - Mona Gould "Rain"

Unveiled eyes with tears are wet - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"

Though it must be culled with a gushing tear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Broken tears in the profane lace of dawn - Wendy Guerra "Delicates" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

The ghostly wand of tears - Louise Imogen Guiney "For a Child"

Like the tearful saint of Magdala - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)

Where tears and hunger have no grace - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "My Friend"

Dance the weave of joy and tears - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"

Drenched with burning tears - Frances E.W. Harper "Nothing and Something"

Must know the fall of tears - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXI"

Through tears of memory - F.W. Harvey "Cloud Messengers"

Spilling a torrent of silver tears - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"

Silver tears across the black petals - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"

Denies a tear's relief - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

The slain tears of midnight - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

The tears of heaven descend in balm - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Promises like a cup of tears - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"

The tears that Dryads wept - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Confessions in tears at midnight - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"

Be told by tears - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Company their grief with heavy tears - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

See beauty through the tears - Walter E. Houghton, Jr. "Love Song"

And wash them with untimely tears - "Hours of Childhood"

Crocodile tears of crocodile art - Langston Hughes "Movies"

Grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Through the grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Bitter laughter and bitter tears - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 2 [Men of a certain age]"

A well full of men's tears that weep - "I Saw a Peacock"

There drops no kindred tear - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Begins sobbing tears of rain - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

We'll fill Time's glass with ruby tears - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Planted only the seed of my tears - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Sprinkle the dry herbs with my tears - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Where a path of tears washed through - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

A forest pregnant with tears - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"

With tears of love and longing - Lionel Johnson "Desideria"

A kindlier way than tears - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"

Royal in their history of tears - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

Tears too are mistaken - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

seasoned by tears and rage - Tanque R. Jones "Chitterlings and Collard Greens"

Keep time with my salt tears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

Leaving the meadow wet with tears - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Tears my eyes can't carry - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

When wild tears can flow - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

her tears were empty chairs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

wish their tears were rungs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

Without one cooling tear - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"

In tears amid the alien corn - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Like the passage of an angel's tear - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"

Blame not my tears - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

With heavy hearts and tearful eyes - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

It flows a sullen stream of tears - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"

Drunk with heaven's tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

My nights of burning tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

The bitterest tears we shed - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Too common to deserve a tear - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

In Tears for her Telemachus - Anne Killigrew "To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord Berkeley's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service"

And tears but nourish - Joyce Kilmer "As Winds That Blow Against a Star"

With ashen bread and wine of tears - Joyce Kilmer "The Fourth Shepherd"

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

Nothing to weep but tears - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Through tears they see more clearly - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

The solemn moon in tears - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

This flow of barren tears - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Sometimes salted by tears - Ted Kooser "A Jar of Buttons"

Your dark morning tears - Petra Kuppers "Gut Body"

The grieved their tears forget - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

And water it with bitter tears - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"

Poor remorses and vain tears - Archibald Lampman "With the Night"

Who greeted them first was my tears - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

Tears and dreams - D.H. Lawrence "Study"

And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Black narrow lists no tears can wash away - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"

An hour for our tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XII: A Lost Hour"

We have lost the need for tears - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Amorphous and black, shedding tears - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"

Drank so deeply at the fount of tears - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

An extra smile or a burst of tears - Henry S. Leigh "In a Hundred Years"

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

Will exact in grief and tears his pay - Lermontof "Why" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Weary weight of tears unshed - Amy Levy "A Greek Girl"

And let the tears together flow - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"

But these are my tears - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"

How many places stained with their tears - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

The tears of the brown rain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Fear"

And know her by her tears - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Lost Name"

In casks safe from time and tears - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"

Low through vales of tears - Naomi Long Madgett "Wedding Song"

Not even the source of tears - Anthony Madrid "Quinceanera"

Spare me your sparrow's tears - Anthony Madrid "Siebenundvierzig"

From the sobbing viols drew white tears - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley

To strengthen rebel hearts with tears - Edwin Markham "Music"

A dismal lake of tears - George Martin "Despondent"

The deep fulfillment of tears - Edgar Lee Masters "Mirage of the Desert"

With tears and starry hopes - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

With clean white tears of April rain - Theodore Maynard "Easter"

Broke its vase of burning tears - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"

Tears from all Beginning to all Ending - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Swims to me on tears - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

For rapture of a wine of tears - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"

Scorning pity's tears - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

All my heart became a tear - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

For whom they suppress their tears - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

No wonder I cry glass tears - Claire Millikin "Seven Stops"

Drew iron tears down Plato's cheek - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

The history of this particular star is filled with tears - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"

Before I drop my farewell tear - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Tears water the curry-leaf dragon - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Memory's tears are cold upon thy face - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Brimmed with salt-spiked tears - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

That glory would check the tears of woe - Mary E. Nealy "Dying in the Hospital" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Make each tear a pearl - Francis Neilson "Hebe"

The destiny of your tears - Pablo Neruda "Alliance (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Let fall its tears like glacial swords - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid

Like an old buried tear - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Divided up the blood and tears - Pablo Neruda "The Red Line" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Tears daybreak from its night roots - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Like a tearing river of glass - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Building that star of tears - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

An immense tear of blood and lead - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Lifelong stress and toil of tears - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"

Journeying to the root of her tears - Grace Nichols "At Stockwell Tube"

Spirit spent by sterile tears - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"

Out of my stony heart has struck a tear - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

A fountain in an ocean of tears - Robert Nichols "The Tower"

Sees through tears of spray - Meredith Nicholson "Disappointment"

Drying up all tears of my soul - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

Saw everything through a heightened tear - Alice Notley "Poem [Why do I want to tell it]"

The dying rainbow of those tears - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

Can find you amidst this atlas of tears - Naomi Shihab Nye "Lunch in Nablus City Park"

A legacy of secret tears - Naomi Shihab Nye "Working on his Sermon"

To a chalice of tears and of laughter - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"

Whose seeds, in tear and anguish sown - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Under a plague of allergies and tears - Frank O'Hara "The Eyelid Has its Storms..."

Dashed a tear in secret from his eye - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

In tears to vent its misery - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Caradori Singing"

Dissolve in purifying tears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

The eternal reciprocity of tears - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

Such tears of anguish now she sheds - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

To shoes filled with tears - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"

Dormant tears stream down my face - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

What serves treasure but for tears - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Our deluge of tears was constant and true - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"

Who find a rainbow in their cup of tears - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"

Can't trace the arc of my tears - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

Not that tears can't be song - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

Forgive yourself those tears - Lynn Powell "A Scherzo for Sadness"

One word dispel a cloud of tears - John Presland "November"

Forgot that my tears are for me alone - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

Nor the red tear nor the reflect tower abides - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"

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

Mingled with the flame a tear - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Old Verses"

Tears tied knots in my throat - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "I Went to You Last Night"

A tear counts the choices given - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Pro Choice"

Flood all the place of tears - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"

Until his tears became a rupture - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Though heaven alone records the tear - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Brave at Home"

Tears rolled down a cheek of stone - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

Seeks to freeze the remembrance of tears - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Tears and strife to give him worth - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Laughter in tears and malice in mirth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"

Old record of loves and tears - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Fresh tears wet upon the hard cold face - Rennell Rodd "Imperator Augustus"

A spoonful of tears - Luis J. Rodriguez "Words"

With her tearful eyes raised high - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"

With the tears of heaven wet - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

And tears of bliss in silence weep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Repays their cost of tears - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"

The tempest and tears of the deep - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"

Some lost child in tears and trouble - Carl Sandburg "Lost"

The wind tears up the sun - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [The wind tears up the sun]"

Tell the tale of tears - Clinton Scollard "The Little Creek Coonana"

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIX"

Vexed with watching and with tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLVIII"

To my tears shall bend - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

My tear-embroidered songs - Taras Shevchenko "A Poem of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

And every tear would turn a mill - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull

We are waiting for every last tear - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

When wo commands the tear to speak - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

That weep with tears of ice and crystal - Clark Ashton Smith "Eidolon"

The tears of mist and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Tears of Lilith"

Weeps with frozen tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

Lights earth's tears - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"

Wade through your tears - Hope Anita Smith "Instructions on How to Lose a Mother"

A machine's steel tear - Patricia Smith "Boy Dies, Girlfriend Gets His Heart"

The sad tear may embitter the wine - R. Penn Smith "A Health to My Brother"

Pure as a seraph's tear - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"

Ten thousand tears all shed in vain - E.M. Smith-Dampier "Ballad of the Traitor's Head"

Empty as a bucket of tears - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"

Earth that knows of death, not tears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"

Her tears falling in a hundred streams - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

To make their surer paradise of tears - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

Like a tear of everlasting dew - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"

With tears of bitter light - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"

Through sealed, ungiven tears - George Sterling "Good-bye!"

Had gathered the night's last tear - George Sterling "Hesperian"

Where tears alone are fruit - George Sterling "In Autumn"

Whose streets with tears are wet - George Sterling "The New State"

Recall the starlight in the tear - George Sterling "Old Partings"

And sudden starlight in remembering tears - George Sterling "Reincarnation"

Above the rising sea of human tears - George Sterling "Remorse"

The truce of time and tears - George Sterling "Vigil"

The abiding secret of our tears - George Sterling "Visual Beauty"

By duty and the alchemy of tears - George Sterling "Yosemite"

In iron poverty and hopeless tears - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Ten dark steps of tangled rapture and tears - Arthur Stringer "Life"

Back with a strangle of tears - Arthur Stringer "Milkweed"

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

Our stock of tears is vanishing - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 141: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Tears to steep the wind with - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Bitterer than a soundless tear - Algernon Swinburne "A Baby's Death"

As my tears fill her bed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Time, with a gift of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"

Whose lips have drunken the wine of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

With soft spun verses and tears unshed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Of all those tears that burnt your cheeks - Carmen Sylva "A Friend"

Washed in tears, in blood, in rivers of despair - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

Unshed tears that lie like stones upon it - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"

Soundless sobs of dark and burning tears - Carmen Sylva "To the Memory of Queen Victoria"

And not a tear will quench that fire - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

Washed with the tears of the Universe - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"

Through the warm starting of my hoarding tears - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Never tears at night - Sara Teasdale "The Mother of a Poet"

Drank my tears for dew - Sara Teasdale "The Rose"

Deep vase of chilling tears - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

Not only tears and time but souls and selves - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

With your fierce tears - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"

In a smile the oil of tears - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"

Learn to water joy with tears - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

The civil sun drying earth's tears - Henry David Thoreau "The Thaw"

Shot through with beauty and with tears - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

And dew-drops fall for tears alone - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

And cajole with tears of beryl - Iris Tree "[The adored, wild, strange, irresistible]"

Who counts a nation's tears - Richard Chenevix Trench "To Nicholas, Emperor of Russia"

I shall remember them with tears - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

Her tears that burnt like fire - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"

A thing too great for tears - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Melodious tears of delicate complaining - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

Storing tears in the belly of the earth - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura

Blood thin as a widow's tears - Ocean Vuong "Thanksgiving 2006"

A mirror's tears - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

Night shall weep her silent tears - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Infant"

Wept the truth in burning tears - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

Lost in a silver mist of tears - John Hall Wheelock "Pilgrim"

We cannot die from tears - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

Tears as stars to sparkle in her hair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"

Her tears dissolve the earth - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"

Water of tears with oil of joy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A tear for keener anguish shed - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Cold with dead men's tears - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

That touch the heart like tears - Charlotte Wilson "Evening"

Fabric of mankind's tears - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"

Songs as well as tears - Nancy Wood "Shaman's Circle"

Scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

The wind scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

Uses tears and exacting brush strokes - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

The pilots of the stars of tears - William Butler Yeats "Anashuya and Vijaya"

End with the mourner's tears - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

Lest their last fruit be tears - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

Was builded on that broken city's tears - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Only tears were cosmopolitan - Adam Zagajewski "The Earth"

Inhaling the tears of the defeated - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver


Rinsing my eyes of smoke-tears - Hilda Morley "Song of the Terrible"


Lightning through tear-blurred pages - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"


Teardrop.


Till those tearful winds abate - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"


The tearful-beaded rain froze into gems - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


Nostalgia and tear gas have the same acrid smack - A.E. Stallings "After a Greek Proverb"


Tearless.


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