Potential Titles: Weep

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Though sad affection weeps - A.L.O.E. "Death Is Not Dreadful"

A veil that makes the night weep - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Where your gentle sisters may not weep - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"

Where sunless rivers weep their waves - Ellen Allyn "Dream Land"

Weeping for withered grief - Auguste Angellier "Tranquil Habit" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Has hidden long from weeping eyes - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Heard the iron weeping of the King - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

And leave me eyes with which to weep - Elizabeth Bartlett "Convert"

The old tree weeps for its blossom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Full Circle"

The seed will weep for its root - Elizabeth Bartlett "Full Circle"

Let patient mourners weep - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"

Where the marble fountains weep - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

On moonless eves to weep - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

An open wound weeping smoke - Richard Blanco "Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala"

A nation wept its fallen flowers - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

My eyes are tired of weeping - Anne Bronte "Appeal"

Would sing while I was weeping - Emily Bronte "Hope"

Now good for only weeping - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

A blessing for the eyes that weep - William Cullen Bryant "Blessed Are They That Mourn"

Where hearts forget to weep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Beyond the Hills of Dream"

The weeping shadow left behind - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"

Who will not weep again - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Who once had wept like Niobe - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"

Above the spot the willows weep - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Souvenirs from jet lag and weeping - Marianne Chan "Viewing Service"

A discordant chorus of weeping girls - Wendy Chen "Rites"

An elephant wept in ancient memory - Cheng Him "Declaration"

Weeping out of the ancient sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

To dwell a weeping hermit there - William Collins "Ode: Written in the Year 1746"

Though the skies weep to-day - Ina Coolbrith "After the Winter Rain"

In the dark recess where one weeps for Grendel - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

And the wave the wind surprises weeps - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

A privilege to weep - Allison Pitinii Davis "The Function of Humor in the Neighborhood"

I am weeping for old memories of my favorite life - Megan E. Davis "My Favorite Life"

I who wept yesterday - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"

Not all my weeping might the gift obtain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Pens weeping the blue ink of loss - Diane DeCillis "Weeping Women"

That wakes not for our weeping - "Deirdre's Lament for the Sons of Usnach" (Translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson)

Weeping upon a haunted hill - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"

Who could weep for lighter griefs - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Last of Six"

Alone and naked by the weeping tree - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Who weep with wind - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"

Lost his pain and weeps no more - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???

Submerged in all the ways we have wept - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

The weeping heart of all things - Vievee Francis "Clarity"

If hills could learn to weep - Oliver Goldsmith "A Great Man"

Who weep like orphans at my door - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"

The birches heard him weeping - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

I shall not weep when you go but don a scarlet dress - Mona Gould "Promise"

Takes root where you weep - Cynthia Grady "Tree of Life"

Weeping for lost Babylon - Robert Graves "Babylon"

And weep for Vashti's shame - Frances E.W. Harper "Vashti"

Shall weep for Glory's transient day - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"

Each flower has wept - Robert Herrick "Corinna's Going a-Maying"

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

Over the weeping grass they drift - Mildred Howells "Fog Wraiths"

Bitter for want of weeping - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"

The heavy sky that could not weep - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

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

And weeping shades come after - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

To waken and weep at the dawn - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"

Three generations weep - Edward Irving "To the Memory of My Venerable Grandfather-in-Law, Samuel Martin, who Was Taken from Us in the Sixty-Eighth Year of his Memory"

My little home, where I weep when I please - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

His eyelashes wept blood - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald

The Gorgons weep blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"

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

Woe weeps out her division - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

Wander weeping through empty halls - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 5" transl. by Burton Watson

While the bondmen all are weeping - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

That answered well the weeping skies - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Through which the summer rills run weeping - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

With raiment of weeping and woe - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

A wilt that can't stop weeping sap - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Sent after weeping Eyes - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

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

With so much time to weep - Archibald Lampman "A Song"

With dreams of weeping - Archibald Lampman "Storm"

Whom these wakeful eyes may weep - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"

Weaves a veil made of weeping - Else Lasker-Schuler "Homesick" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Weeping at the bottom of the pool - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

And weep while I'm confiding - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

A crocodile that sits and weeps - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Till the weeping fawn descended - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

Where night rains weep - Alice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"

Though the nights might weep - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Intrusion"

Sees gray branches weep - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"

As if chaste Dryads wept - George Martin "Marguerite"

Weep away the fears of shadows - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"

To weep for the martyred dead - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"

Jewels bled from weeping crowns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

If I weep it will not matter - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Dream"

Weep themselves away in rain - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Then do not weep with me - Dugald Moore "Weep Not"

Forgot to hope, forgot to weep - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"

The silent weeping of rocks - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

A window where love weeps - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

Yellow birch trees weeping leaves - Jaye Nasir "November"

Let weeping root me - Maggie Nelson "The Deep Blue Sea"

That forgetfulness and weeping weave - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Your winds weep with rage - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid

The time for weeping will come - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Protect them from my weeping - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Forgotten smoke of the weeping amethyst - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Among the sciences of weeping - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

The beauty of weeping minstrels - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

The horse of weeping in the charming vestibule - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Shall waken thee weeping - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"

Weeping larks falling all over the heavens - Frank O'Hara "Aus Einem April"

For weepers for weapons for widows - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Red Red Rose"

For the erring Absalom his father wept aloud - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

If thus she weep above the guilty dead - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Do not weep in your way of ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Let Me Tell You People Something"

Wept till the world looked blue - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

Depending on who's weeping - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

The problem with weeping - Carl Phillips "Wild Is the Wind"

Thoth closed his book of records and wept - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

The eye that weeps calamity to see - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Angels" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Secret weeping over your barrenness - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz

Not even the peace of weeping - Lynn Riggs "Angry Sea"

Weep always for my stone - Rainer Maria Rilke "Song of the Statue" transl. by Jessie Lemont

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

Do not weep in the devil's snare - Rumi "Life in Death" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Stung with immortal wrath and doomed to weep - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

Makes the floor weep and the ceiling grieve - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

On the blinded eyes that weep - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"

Which cannot choose but weep - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

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

All night did the Banshee weep - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

A smoke of weeping silver - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"

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

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

The un-embodied angels weep - Richard Solomon "Ode to Zingerman's Pulled Pork Sandwich"

The mocking echo of woman's weeping - Leonora Speyer "Gulls"

Jonah wept within the whale - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Grim Surprise wondered that she should weep - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Woven a veil for the weeping face - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

A singing that has chords of weeping - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Below the willows while they wept - Paul Tran "Terroir"

All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"

The sky weeps in abundance - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura

And every dwelling weeps - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell

To weep is nature, but to weep is vain - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"

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

And the mer-folk weeping - Charles William Wallace "Thus Life's Tale"

Bids everyone to weep for Baldur - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: iii) Godzilla Weeps for Baldur"

And left her sitting weeping by the shore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: iii) Godzilla Weeps for Baldur"

These eyes that wake to weep - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

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

Didn't fear ashes or weeping - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

Weep for Winter's tempest wild - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

Gentle violets weeping with the dew - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Keats"

Schooled to weep upon the stage - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

The sun weeps until I boil - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

Wept for the beginning of the destruction - "XXV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Do not weep but once - Kevin Young "Eulogy"


Outweep the very dews - James Whitcombe Riley "When I Do Mock"

Another day that dies unwept - Aldous Huxley "Quotidian Vision"


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