Potential Titles: Bereave/Bereft

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In the wrath of my bereavement - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

When fate bereaves life of old joys - F.W. Harvey "The Bond"

From all the woods that autumn bereaves - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLII"

Whose loss bereaves the sun - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Sad One, Must You Weep"

So much exposure to my own bereavement - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"

The secret wing's of bereavement's ship - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Hauling their bereaved wonderment - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

The blessed bereavement of bones - Jay Wright "Kumu"


Ruined and bankrupt, lost and bereft - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Bruised and irremediably bereft - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

Of light and hope bereft - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"

Of all good sights and sounds bereft - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Bereft, wild and laden with wrack - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"

Bereft of that high hope - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

So incredibly bereft of starlight - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

The length and weight and silence of the bereft - Jane Hirschfield "Ledger"

What would the world be, once bereft - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"

Once bereft of wet and wildness - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"

The silver pheasant bereft of hue - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

All the hopes of which Time has bereft me - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (To a Civil Question)"

Bereft of our familiar shapes - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"

The mannequin's shadow, perfect and bereft - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

A firefly desolate, bereft of home - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

Desolate, bereft by bitter fate - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson

All the mischief of its fault bereft - Alice Wellington Rollins "She Came and Went"

Bereft, but not vanquished - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"

Bereft of wildwood joy and song - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"

Of birds and blossoms am I bereft - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]

Of moon-light bereft - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

Uncrowned, disrobed, bereft - Winifred Welles "Exile"

Waxy orbs bereft of shine - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"


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