Potential Titles: Sense/Sensitive

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The tremulous sense of bud and bower - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "A Touch of Nature"

With her slant sense of directions - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"

Whose fruitage beautiful allures each sense - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VII--Midsummer"

The reign of sense is over - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Vanity in the sense of idle conceit - Rae Armantrout "A Conceit"

Call the men of sense and soul - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

Distorting all rightful sense of space - Mary Jo Bang "From a New Place"

A wanderer from the sense of sight - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Only a sixth sense of faith or fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

All five senses, in a flock, go south to weather winter - Geoffrey Brock "Goodbye"

Conquering flesh and sense - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"

A fatal sense of blankness - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

In a new apocalypse of sense - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Into soul from sense - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Sit down among your senses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Meter of organ and sense - CM Burroughs "Body as a Juncture of Almost"

Stolen from your sense of what is holy - Scott Cairns "Loves"

Rebuked by a sense of the incomplete - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

With our incomparable sense of loss - Leonard Cohen "Queen Victoria and Me"

My most faithful sense of your indifference - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

The solemn sense of justice infinite - Benjamin Copeland "Niagara"

Pervade the yielded avenues of sense - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

This sense, despite all I know of marrow, of wind in my bones - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"

Collapsed in the metaphorical sense - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Once the symptoms start to make sense - Rita Dove "Borderline Mambo"

The blank and silence of the senses - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Sense of conquest stern and high - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

On all the passages of sense - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

Each anointed sense will see - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

The inner sense which neither cheats nor lies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Trying hard to become sense - Cornelius Eady "Charles Stuart in the Hospital"

By Fear and sense of what was not - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Who found no substitute for sense - T.S. Eliot "Whispers of Immortality"

The general sense of rain - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (In Windows Acting Just Like Leaves)"

Beauty through my senses stole - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"

A friend can bring you back to your sweeter senses - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"

Forgets to interpret to a lesser sense - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

With a field's sense of shovels - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Played at the margins of the senses - Elisabeth Frost "The Uncured World"

With no good sense of discretion - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"

By means most palpable to sense and sight - Thomas Gent "The Grave of Dibdin"

With waking sense adored - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Light of the House"

With your subtle spell, hold our senses fast - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

My senses wither - Hadewijch of Brabant (The poem title and translator were not clearly cited in the blog post where I found this.)

Their sense of concave horizon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"

To sense that phantom tap on my nerves - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

All who believe in the senses - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"

Between my senses and my self - H.L. Hix "Blur"

To dim the sense of not belonging here - Cynthia Hogue "The Loire Valley (Solstice 2015)"

Before this fire of sense decay - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"

An elastic sense of being and becoming - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

No spell to waken sense - Fanny Kemble "To a Picture"

Redacting my sense of abandon - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Grow"

Thrills with the sense of finished days - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"

That my dreaming senses may be beckoned so - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Violin"

That spans the sense of the imagination - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"

Above the sleeping eyelids of the senses - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Sensing the root, the bud, the bough - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

The tea showed its excellent sense - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

Born with sense enough to grind his corn - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

All joys of soul or sense - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"

In a twilight of the sense - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Learned a sense of direction - Randall Mann "A Better Life"

The sense of the silence in song - Don Marquis "The Pool"

The million cells of sense - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

The fresh young sense of Sweet - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

With spirit past the sense - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

And overthrow our steady senses - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet I from Second April

That old familiar sense of going nowhere - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

The undying worm of sense - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Smitten by the fire of sense - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

He has fourteen other senses there are no words for - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

With each sense subdued - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

Sense danger in the sea's laughter - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XXXIX" transl. by William O'Daly

Your cold sense of oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

Of thy senses kept the keys - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Through the senses' silvery haze - Coventry Patmore "The Happy Husband"

Of dormant sense and soul - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"

Swallow clay and sleeping sense - Walter S. Percy "Dust to Dust"

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]

A path to lose our sense of others - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"

To make sense of these billion leaves - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"

In this real of Sense and Time - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

The yawning darkness eating all sense - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Beneath the streetlights of sense and order - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

A fey sense illumines - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Impose upon me a sense of sin - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

With each eager sense - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

The law whereby our senses live - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

A sense of ocean and old trees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"

And gives my sense her rest - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"

Gifts delivered without a sense of etiquette - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

What did I owe a world that made no sense - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

Through the lattice of my senses - Charles Sangster "A Living Temple"

A nagging sense of neurons stalled - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"

A sudden sense of the frozen void - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

The sense of cool and silver joys - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"

Depicting a wayward sense - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"

When sense crash'd into nonsense dies - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]

The sense of the invisible and true still present - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Swept beyond the brink of Sense - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

The folk-lore of each of the senses - Wallace Stevens "The River of Rivers in Connecticut"

Sense the echo of a voice - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Drinking the liquor of the senses - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A strain uncomprehended by the sense - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

All senses mixed in the spirit's cup - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The ghosts of sense and sound and sight - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"

Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Doing my simple sense a double spite - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: I"

The stars did entertain my sense - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

Every shy and cloistered sense - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Fathomless, wherein my senses drown - Rudolph Valentino "You"

To thieve speech and sense - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"

Steep my senses in oblivion's balm - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

That circles the brain with sense - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

Every sense and scene of joy - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

In thought and act, in soul and sense - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

My sense of humor is the webbed feet - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

To better sense your latitudes - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

Of your single deranged sense - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"

Before the senses harden - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"

Finding sense under mad Chopin's mask - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

Whate'er the sense take or may refuse - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"

Those obstinate questionings of sense and outward things - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

A shared sense of how to exhaust history - Jenny Xie "Expenditures"

Only the milk makes sense - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

Made a large kind of sense - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"


Gloved your arms with Common-Sense - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Who know no void nor common sense - John Updike "Song of Myself"


Sensible as Sancho Panza - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"


Like sensitive steel in the air - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"

A sensitive abhorring dust - George Meredith "Earth and Man"


A brother to the insensible rock - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"


With senseless runes bedabbed - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"

How soon the senseless wave resign'd the tints - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]

That senseless atoms blindly grew into a world of light - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]


And the dream sensor starts the dream deactivator - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"

The Sensory Deprivation Tanks for Life Resistant Arrivals(tm) - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"


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