Potential Titles: Thought
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Where innocent water thought aloud - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
A wedge of thoughtful cranes - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"
On the wild wing of thought - "Addressed to a Friend"
Moving in a halo of ideal thought - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Vaulted reflection of thought - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
I thought I'd tossed all my hope away - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"
Like thoughtful fairies in a Shakespeare play - Julia Alvarez "Bad Weather Friends"
Unhallow'd thoughts might soon defame - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXV: The Young Shepherds" transl. by Sir John Bowring
What thought of honey flows - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXIX: Apprehension" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Undone by wandering thoughts - Simon Armitage "Avalon"
Crimson thoughts within me writhe and burn - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Set its cadence to my thoughts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Each act and thought decreed - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"
Thoughts like hydras lurked and coiled - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
The high-browed kings of thought - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"
Thoughts washed against a reef - Mary Jo Bang "Anniversary"
Incomplete labyrinth of finished thought - Mary Jo Bang "Beneath the Din"
Awareness of thought as desire - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
Our thoughts imprisoned by the image - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Measuring in lofty thought the march of Time - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The thought immense in the dark - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
To flowers of thought most deep - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Water Spirit"
A font for all my first thoughts - Jason Bayani "Someday, Again"
Plug your thought or daydream into me - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
The exhalation of a furious thought - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A rose if its petals thought of snows - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Had thought and raised and poised its splendor - William Rose Benét "The City"
Imagination brings its evil thoughts - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Stray thoughts from the gentle ticking of action - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"
Unbuilt all walls of thought - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Not a thought of winter's rent - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
With secret, chained thoughts - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
From the hopeless decay of thought - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"
A different smile for each thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
Hard with years of thought-spinning - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Life"
Upon the last edges of thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"
A decorative speed of thought and soul - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
The jerking, smoldering ghost of a thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "To the Violinist"
The lightning and thunder rush of his thoughts - Bruce Boston "Alien Quarry"
Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Thought's full-felt commands - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 19"
All the sweet thoughts I live on - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"
Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Call your thoughts home - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
A thousand thoughts beneath the sun - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Where only sad thoughts reign - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds
By the utmost flight of thought conceive - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Feed my heart on poisonous thoughts - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LXX. A Prayer for Strength" transl. by John Addington Symonds
To lay aside some store of thought - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
I am the noise with deathly thoughts - CM Burroughs "God Letter"
Words bending thoughts like light - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"
All thought of endeavor - Julie Byrne "Melting Grid"
Traitors to thought and reason - Tommaso Campanella "VI. An Exhortation to Mankind" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Vertebrae of thought - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Where walk dim ghosts of thoughts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Each thought becomes a harmony - Giosue Carducci "Sun and Love" transl. by Frank Sewall
Is ever worth one thought - Willa Cather "Evening Song"
A thought grown stubborn in the mind - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Chiseled out of thought - Madison J. Cawein "To Revery"
Thought to fill my soul with grief - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
Layers of complication on a plane of thought - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Clock]"
Our thought & selves housed by history - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Thoughts our house had had about us - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
Won by individual thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blessed Are They that Have Not Seen!"
Narrowing its doors to thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
My least breathed on thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"
For a new swarm of thoughts - Billy Collins "Putti in the Night"
Changed my thoughts to laughter - Hilda Conkling "The Green Palm Tree"
Enwrought from the tissue of thought - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
With gloomy thoughts and thronging dreams oppressed - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Every generous thought is scandal - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
A dreamer wrapped in pleasant thoughts - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
At callow thoughts of centuries - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"
Leapt forth the hounds of thought - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Not thought of as present - Robert Creeley "Translation"
Ultimate slopes thoughtful of twilight - George Cronyn "Disillusion"
In that cage of words wild thoughts were pent - Olive Custance "A Dream"
Your unwritten page so full of thought - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"
But this one thought possessed his mind - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"
Thoughts spilling winged like a butterfly - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
Where dwells the essences of unborn thought - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Who with a thought controls the raging seas - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Speed upon plumes of thought - Luís de Camões "Sonnet VIII" transl. by Viscount Strangford
Lifts up my heart above all thought of pride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
My speech with my thoughts keeps no pace - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Thoughts lasting to the end - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
Waken thoughts of Being's early day - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
And we hung our thoughts there - Desdamona "Once and Future"
My branch of thoughts is frail tonight - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
sparks and thoughts they do combine - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"
A deafening surround to these thoughts - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
To organize my thoughts on the paranormal - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Haunted by the feet of thoughts - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
The harvest of long thought - Boris Dralyuk "R. B. Kitaj's 'Los Angeles'"
Cleanse the muddy mirrors of my thought - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
In autumn's thoughtful weather - Max Eastman "Anniversary"
The string of my thoughts' parcel - Helen Parry Eden "To Wilfrid Meynell"
Arriving beyond view before the thought of it - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Where thought is not - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Mixes music with her thoughts - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Turning things into thoughts - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
Blue sparks of thought - Heid E. Erdich "Interrogated Self"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
The wandering thought from Lethe's shores - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
And think old thoughts - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Douce Souvenance"
As power trembled into thought - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
My thoughts are willow branches already broken - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"
My thoughts are sparrows passing - John Gould Fletcher "Fugitive Thoughts"
Never thought the tyrant could ever die - Mina Florea "Remember"
Eternal thought in me puts on the dress of time - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Left breathing its thought - Nick Flynn "Homily"
Wander the groves of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
The grove of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"
Without passing through thought - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
The thronging fires of thought - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
And thought she was safe from the Fox - "The Fox and the Geese"
Citadel of intrusive thoughts - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"
What room for thought or choice? - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"
listen for the thoughts of their lost mirror-images - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Travelled among common thoughts again - John Freeman "Waking"
Thought has a pair of dauntless wings - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Thought has shaken his ankles free - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Only more sure of all I thought was true - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Blood of the witches you thought were dead - Nikita Gill "Witch"
In my hand of passion and thought - Louis Golding "The Quest"
The thoughts which spurn control - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"
That puts all sober thoughts to flight - Mona Gould "Sorcery"
My questing thoughts go backward - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"
And bind our thoughts to earth - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Poised in marble thought - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"
Amber thought leaked - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"
Balanced on the scales of thought - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"
Who do not give a thought to fairness - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Thought it a region of sunshine and rest - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"
We wasted thoughts of love - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
Vigorous thought, unconquerable hope, and high endeavor - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Tortured syntax, thorned thoughts - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Thoughts from joy's branches flew - Hafiz "The Divan XXXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Throw off the chains of thought - Jonas Hallgrimsson "Journey's End" transl. by Dick Ringler
Just that one memory I thought banished - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
The treasure house of thought - Frances E.W. Harper "My Mother's Kiss"
Hopes my thoughts alone have known - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Far into the skies of thought - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"
Whose spirits all my thoughts control - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The wing of towering thought - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
The pure lightnings of exalted thought - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
By the bright lamp of thought - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Thought him all her Fancy Painted - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law I: The Wedding"
As different from thought or song as a dream - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
From fond thought some comfort I will borrow - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]
Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
Disturb us with the thought of strife - E.E. St. L. Hill "Parting"
The traveler's heart has a hundred thoughts - Ho Sun "At Parting" transl. by Burton Watson
Through the deep caves of thought - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Launching his thoughts like arrows - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
With all the luxury of thought - "Hours of Childhood"
A mournful thought did borrow - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"
To sing in thoughtful ears - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Through passion into thought - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
A coloured skein of thoughts - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
For Time's a thought of space - Umar Ibn al-Farid "Khamriyyah" [selections] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Allowing the thought to stray the trigger - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
But my secret thoughts have not escaped - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Fire dropped from the veins of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Pour moonbeams into the dark night of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Every thought was delusion - Alexander Jamieson "A Sigh and a Smile"
A poem stuck in the world's thought - Robinson Jeffers "Summer Holiday"
Shrinks at the thought of day - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Stern thoughts and strong winds - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
For poised and halting thought - G.H. Johnstone "Summer"
Folded the pinions of my thought - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
To harbour a divided thought - Ben Jonson "To the World. A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, Virtuous and Noble"
A tangle of tenses and parallel thoughts - Lawrence Joseph "So Where Are We?"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
The radiant colours of his thought - Fredoon Kabraji "The Lovers"
In my barbershop of thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Before the War, We Made a Child"
Under the bare feet of their thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"
I send my herald thought into a wilderness - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
And I have thought it died of grieving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"
thought's diamond drop squeezed - Kaie Kellough "if who"
The glad sunlight of clear thought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Wander hand in hand with Thought - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"
A thousand thoughts of sunny weather - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
Between disintegrating thoughts - Jane Kenyon "While We Were Arguing"
Ruined by nothing but my thoughts - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
And thought of no retreat - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Thoroughfare"
Thought it was slapstick throughout - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Hurt with mortal thought - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"
Awakens kindred souls to kindred thought - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Tracking the monsters that trouble their thoughts - Merie Kirby "Mother"
A pause to gather lost thoughts - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Frees his thoughts to soar - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson
Each thought looming - Louise Labe sonnet IV
The strength of second thoughts - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
In the secret ways of thought - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Weary of eddying thought - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"
Folded in like a dark thought - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
An amazon of thought with sovereign eyes - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
All wilder thoughts at rest - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"
Thought themselves safe from obligation - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"
Releasing thought balloons - Dana Levin "A Skull"
My high thoughts, and my golden dreams - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Your outlawed thoughts in your hands - Ada Limon "The Frontier of Never Leaving"
And banish the thoughts of day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"
Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
Thought that success always followed desire - Amy Lowell "The Fool Errant"
Cut myself upon the thought of you - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
Strike the hard edge of a thought - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
The reckless wind of thought - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
Thin veils, woven of thought - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Thought, breaking, rends them in twain - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Sending his herald thoughts before - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Rider between thought and dream - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
A thought shuddered through the silent deep - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Should one thought cry against me - Jeannette Marks "Your Sunlit Way"
Thought clothed in deed is lord - Don Marquis "Words Are Not Guns"
To lure the current of my thought - George Martin "Marguerite"
Holy thoughts in a dreamer's mind - George Martin "Marguerite"
Without thought to consequence - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
A green thought in a green shade - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Thought as soundless as a flood - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
To the last blade of thought - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
The thought writes itself like yeast - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"
Some uninvited thought of me - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
a little jut of thought in her jaw - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"
Beneath the floorboards of my thought - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
No tinted thoughts to paint you true - Claude McKay "Heritage"
That carries thoughts of me - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
We pass the breath of thought - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Breath of thought beyond our bounds - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
The thought that lurks in all delight - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Her flocks are thoughts - Alice Meynell "The Shepherdess"
Thoughts yet unripe - Alice Meynell "The Young Neophyte"
Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Tighten to a thought - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"
My thought ran still - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"
Into a torpor on the brink of thought - Harold Monro "Journey"
This thought crowds upon me - Carlos Montezuma "An Evening's Reverie"
No breath between thoughts - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
Wrought your baser dross to bars of golden thought - George L. Moore "Keats"
Every thought washed of color - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Thought to stay blameless - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"
Along the stem of its thought - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"
of clarity in the prayer's thought - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
When exhausted of my thoughts - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"
With bleaker thoughts inside - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
The fresh liquor of unchained thought - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"
In particular sheets of thoughts - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Write not thy thoughts on snow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Smiled at the thought of Time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Up the mountain-sides of thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"
A dark point of travelling thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Thought grown firm as granite - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
Thought pain had no tongue - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arabic"
The star I thought I wanted - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
My underground thoughts of you - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Carven filigree of Thought - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
Our thoughts converge - Ladan Osman "Boat Journey"
For thought's most sacred cells - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
One serpent thought that fled not - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "My Seal-Ring"
Above the throne of thought - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"
Worthily to clothe some noble thought - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Worlds of starry thoughts appeared - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Not now your winter thoughts - Fernando Pessoa "Epithalamium"
Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"
Plunge forward without thought for consequence - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
Every bud of thought display - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Thought the truth would be a falcon - Carl Phillips "The Raft"
Thought sleep meant rescue - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"
Your thoughts in a virtual space - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 06801"
Lived with no other thought - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
In the monarch Thought's dominion - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
Where deep thoughts are a duty - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"
Separate from all thought - D.A. Powell "The Artist's Hand"
This season of the second thought - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"
A second thought ripening - Lynn Powell "Needing the Baroque"
The secret chambers of my thought - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels: L'Envoi IV"
But he thought not of the reeds - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Red Fisherman; or, the Devil's Decoy"
To let forbidden thoughts go free - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
As a thought passes - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
Empty your thoughts to the stars - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Charms his thought to song - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Whose thoughts dead poets gathered - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"
The intolerable thought none can ignore - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"
Sweet thoughts and beautiful - John Rollin Ridge "Random Thoughts of Her"
Thought at its own axis may be whorled - Lola Ridge "Appulse"
A thought of storm-drenched fields - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"
Upon the withered vine of thought - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Old thoughts, dry as snuff - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Her thought's fine whisper - James Whitcombe Riley "This Dear Child-Hearted Woman that Is Dead"
By the one light of his one thought - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"
Never thought that love had such an end - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
As the bud of thoughts expands - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"
Heights too steep for thought to climb - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Lofty thought scarce held by earthly bound - Amy Redpath Roddick "My Lake"
Fire blown bright by thought - Isaac Rosenberg "Expression"
A sad thought buried in light - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Before I undress another thought - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"
Thoughts ugly as clothespins - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"
Broken to shape of thought - Carl Sandburg "Languages"
Know a dead man's thoughts too well - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
A soul of dreams and thoughts and memories - Carl Sandburg "Skyscraper"
Have twisted comets out of thought - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
When thought's abdication quickens - Delmore Schwartz "The First Morning of the Second World"
Each thought leaning on its horn - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Kept me at the surface of thoughts - Lisa Sewell "The Land of Nod"
Sessions of sweet silent thought - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"
Entertain the time with thoughts of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIV"
The first my thought, the other my desire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
Not farther than my thoughts - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVII"
That the thought of hearts can mend - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIX"
In your sweet thoughts would be forgot - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Mute thoughts on the mute walls around - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
That echoes not my thoughts - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Hung in the gloom of thought - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Sweet thoughts in a dream - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
Hidden in the light of thought - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
The lamplike thought of you - Clark Ashton Smith "Haunting"
Who harvest with the scythe of thought - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Unending thoughts on fire - Richard Solomon "A Riddle"
My thoughts amid the golden spheres - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"
A victim of the curse of thought - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
The restless winds of thought - George Sterling "Willy Pitcher"
Endure our thoughts all night - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Mechanisms of angelic thought - Wallace Stevens "One of the Inhabitants of the West"
Within the thought of the wind - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
Quiet minutes that leave only thoughts of rain - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Fruit from the ripening bough of Thought - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
So I followed where thought should lead - Arthur Stringer "My Heart Stood Empty"
Connoisseur of old thoughts - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
Thoughts like bees in lavender - Muriel Stuart "Madala Goes by the Orphanage"
Free my thoughts from this tangle - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Orange slots of hot thought - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
A passion of thought set free - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
To hand in the ear of thought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"
Who thought to die unmourned - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"
Sudden menace with no thought of the gradual - Dorothea Tanning "Lucky"
Rid myself of dusty thoughts - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson
Thoughts that star the night - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Where thoughts smell in the rain - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
Wild thoughts and strange imaginings - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
To range the world of thought - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Dropped into a cold marble bowl of thought - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"
Friendly thoughts were cliffs to me - Henry David Thoreau "The Departure"
Their thoughts conversing with the sky - Henry David Thoreau "Rumors from an Aeolian Harp"
Thoughts enclosed in words of granite - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
With thoughts that pierce like flame - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Thoughts through narrowing glooms of shade - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
And in thought keep holiday - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Death and music in my thought - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
My thoughts are tangled fast in gloom - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Closed the portal of thought - Miss Augusta C. Twiggs "Night"
Lift your perfumed thoughts aloft - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
a sun you thought existed much closer - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Where a thought, doubling upon itself, considers the way - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
Infinite suggestion of new thought - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"
All the winding pathways of our thought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Who thought a dark eye could save you - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Thought we were an archipelago - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics"
The shred of a thought from the fragments - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Strand of Wampum"
Peach blossoms thought only of fruit to come - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson
And the bird becomes a thought - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
And the thought becomes a dream - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
Why seek with such vain thoughts to wean - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
And turn our thoughts on deeds of blood - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Where lonely thoughts listen and wander - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
To our hearts and thoughts cling fast - Edith Wharton "June and December"
A pure reflection of the inward thought - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"
Hidden thoughts await the light - Kate Louise Wheeler "Hidden Treasures"
All these mansions of its thought - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The adoring eyes of thought - John Hall Wheelock "The Poet Tells of His Love"
Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"
Beggar thoughts pass down the lanes - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
Each day without a thought of you - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Rest from all bitter thoughts - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
In thought and act, in soul and sense - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Hard in his heart's thought - "Wife's Lament" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone
No better than his thoughts - Myra Viola Wilds "Thoughts"
The only haven he thought to give a name - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
The caverns of mysterious thought - Joseph R. Wilson "Mystery"
Burn for them the incense of my thoughts - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"
Shards of broken thoughts - Janet S. Wong "Breath"
Untouched by solemn thought - William Wordsworth "Evening"
The anchor of my purest thoughts - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Whose armor is his honest thought - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
Only the blackbirds know my thoughts - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie III"
No need to believe in thoughts - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
Lost in the technicolor thought of it - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
The tall thought-woven sails - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Put my thoughts astray - W.B. Yeats "Tom the Lunatic"
With you at the center of my thoughts - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi
Like thought unable to arrest itself - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Almost as sweet as the thought - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
To what we thought was the end - Cynthia Zarin "Faun"
The lazy bear of wild thought - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
That numbs thought on the tongue - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 8" transl. by Katherine Silver
Thought that fully ripens - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver
Afterthought.
Who do not tax their lives with forethought - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Fade at forethought's touch - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
Where the sole-thoughted Dante waited him - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Thoughtless.
Eros of the unthought, undreamed - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"
With unthought regret - C. K. Williams "Oh"
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Where innocent water thought aloud - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
A wedge of thoughtful cranes - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"
On the wild wing of thought - "Addressed to a Friend"
Moving in a halo of ideal thought - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Vaulted reflection of thought - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
I thought I'd tossed all my hope away - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"
Like thoughtful fairies in a Shakespeare play - Julia Alvarez "Bad Weather Friends"
Unhallow'd thoughts might soon defame - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXV: The Young Shepherds" transl. by Sir John Bowring
What thought of honey flows - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXIX: Apprehension" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Undone by wandering thoughts - Simon Armitage "Avalon"
Crimson thoughts within me writhe and burn - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Set its cadence to my thoughts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Each act and thought decreed - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"
Thoughts like hydras lurked and coiled - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
The high-browed kings of thought - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"
Thoughts washed against a reef - Mary Jo Bang "Anniversary"
Incomplete labyrinth of finished thought - Mary Jo Bang "Beneath the Din"
Awareness of thought as desire - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
Our thoughts imprisoned by the image - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Measuring in lofty thought the march of Time - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The thought immense in the dark - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
To flowers of thought most deep - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Water Spirit"
A font for all my first thoughts - Jason Bayani "Someday, Again"
Plug your thought or daydream into me - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
The exhalation of a furious thought - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A rose if its petals thought of snows - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Had thought and raised and poised its splendor - William Rose Benét "The City"
Imagination brings its evil thoughts - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Stray thoughts from the gentle ticking of action - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"
Unbuilt all walls of thought - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Not a thought of winter's rent - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
With secret, chained thoughts - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
From the hopeless decay of thought - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"
A different smile for each thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
Hard with years of thought-spinning - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Life"
Upon the last edges of thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"
A decorative speed of thought and soul - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
The jerking, smoldering ghost of a thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "To the Violinist"
The lightning and thunder rush of his thoughts - Bruce Boston "Alien Quarry"
Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Thought's full-felt commands - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 19"
All the sweet thoughts I live on - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"
Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Call your thoughts home - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
A thousand thoughts beneath the sun - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Where only sad thoughts reign - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds
By the utmost flight of thought conceive - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Feed my heart on poisonous thoughts - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LXX. A Prayer for Strength" transl. by John Addington Symonds
To lay aside some store of thought - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
I am the noise with deathly thoughts - CM Burroughs "God Letter"
Words bending thoughts like light - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"
All thought of endeavor - Julie Byrne "Melting Grid"
Traitors to thought and reason - Tommaso Campanella "VI. An Exhortation to Mankind" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Vertebrae of thought - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Where walk dim ghosts of thoughts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Each thought becomes a harmony - Giosue Carducci "Sun and Love" transl. by Frank Sewall
Is ever worth one thought - Willa Cather "Evening Song"
A thought grown stubborn in the mind - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Chiseled out of thought - Madison J. Cawein "To Revery"
Thought to fill my soul with grief - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
Layers of complication on a plane of thought - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Clock]"
Our thought & selves housed by history - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Thoughts our house had had about us - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
Won by individual thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blessed Are They that Have Not Seen!"
Narrowing its doors to thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
My least breathed on thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"
For a new swarm of thoughts - Billy Collins "Putti in the Night"
Changed my thoughts to laughter - Hilda Conkling "The Green Palm Tree"
Enwrought from the tissue of thought - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
With gloomy thoughts and thronging dreams oppressed - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Every generous thought is scandal - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
A dreamer wrapped in pleasant thoughts - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
At callow thoughts of centuries - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"
Leapt forth the hounds of thought - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Not thought of as present - Robert Creeley "Translation"
Ultimate slopes thoughtful of twilight - George Cronyn "Disillusion"
In that cage of words wild thoughts were pent - Olive Custance "A Dream"
Your unwritten page so full of thought - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"
But this one thought possessed his mind - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"
Thoughts spilling winged like a butterfly - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
Where dwells the essences of unborn thought - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Who with a thought controls the raging seas - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Speed upon plumes of thought - Luís de Camões "Sonnet VIII" transl. by Viscount Strangford
Lifts up my heart above all thought of pride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
My speech with my thoughts keeps no pace - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Thoughts lasting to the end - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
Waken thoughts of Being's early day - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
And we hung our thoughts there - Desdamona "Once and Future"
My branch of thoughts is frail tonight - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
sparks and thoughts they do combine - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"
A deafening surround to these thoughts - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
To organize my thoughts on the paranormal - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Haunted by the feet of thoughts - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
The harvest of long thought - Boris Dralyuk "R. B. Kitaj's 'Los Angeles'"
Cleanse the muddy mirrors of my thought - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
In autumn's thoughtful weather - Max Eastman "Anniversary"
The string of my thoughts' parcel - Helen Parry Eden "To Wilfrid Meynell"
Arriving beyond view before the thought of it - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Where thought is not - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Mixes music with her thoughts - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Turning things into thoughts - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
Blue sparks of thought - Heid E. Erdich "Interrogated Self"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
The wandering thought from Lethe's shores - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
And think old thoughts - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Douce Souvenance"
As power trembled into thought - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
My thoughts are willow branches already broken - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"
My thoughts are sparrows passing - John Gould Fletcher "Fugitive Thoughts"
Never thought the tyrant could ever die - Mina Florea "Remember"
Eternal thought in me puts on the dress of time - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Left breathing its thought - Nick Flynn "Homily"
Wander the groves of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
The grove of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"
Without passing through thought - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
The thronging fires of thought - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
And thought she was safe from the Fox - "The Fox and the Geese"
Citadel of intrusive thoughts - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"
What room for thought or choice? - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"
listen for the thoughts of their lost mirror-images - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Travelled among common thoughts again - John Freeman "Waking"
Thought has a pair of dauntless wings - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Thought has shaken his ankles free - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Only more sure of all I thought was true - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Blood of the witches you thought were dead - Nikita Gill "Witch"
In my hand of passion and thought - Louis Golding "The Quest"
The thoughts which spurn control - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"
That puts all sober thoughts to flight - Mona Gould "Sorcery"
My questing thoughts go backward - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"
And bind our thoughts to earth - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Poised in marble thought - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"
Amber thought leaked - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"
Balanced on the scales of thought - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"
Who do not give a thought to fairness - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Thought it a region of sunshine and rest - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"
We wasted thoughts of love - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
Vigorous thought, unconquerable hope, and high endeavor - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Tortured syntax, thorned thoughts - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Thoughts from joy's branches flew - Hafiz "The Divan XXXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Throw off the chains of thought - Jonas Hallgrimsson "Journey's End" transl. by Dick Ringler
Just that one memory I thought banished - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
The treasure house of thought - Frances E.W. Harper "My Mother's Kiss"
Hopes my thoughts alone have known - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Far into the skies of thought - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"
Whose spirits all my thoughts control - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The wing of towering thought - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
The pure lightnings of exalted thought - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
By the bright lamp of thought - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Thought him all her Fancy Painted - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law I: The Wedding"
As different from thought or song as a dream - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
From fond thought some comfort I will borrow - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]
Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
Disturb us with the thought of strife - E.E. St. L. Hill "Parting"
The traveler's heart has a hundred thoughts - Ho Sun "At Parting" transl. by Burton Watson
Through the deep caves of thought - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Launching his thoughts like arrows - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
With all the luxury of thought - "Hours of Childhood"
A mournful thought did borrow - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"
To sing in thoughtful ears - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Through passion into thought - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
A coloured skein of thoughts - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
For Time's a thought of space - Umar Ibn al-Farid "Khamriyyah" [selections] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Allowing the thought to stray the trigger - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
But my secret thoughts have not escaped - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Fire dropped from the veins of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Pour moonbeams into the dark night of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Every thought was delusion - Alexander Jamieson "A Sigh and a Smile"
A poem stuck in the world's thought - Robinson Jeffers "Summer Holiday"
Shrinks at the thought of day - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Stern thoughts and strong winds - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
For poised and halting thought - G.H. Johnstone "Summer"
Folded the pinions of my thought - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
To harbour a divided thought - Ben Jonson "To the World. A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, Virtuous and Noble"
A tangle of tenses and parallel thoughts - Lawrence Joseph "So Where Are We?"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
The radiant colours of his thought - Fredoon Kabraji "The Lovers"
In my barbershop of thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Before the War, We Made a Child"
Under the bare feet of their thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"
I send my herald thought into a wilderness - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
And I have thought it died of grieving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"
thought's diamond drop squeezed - Kaie Kellough "if who"
The glad sunlight of clear thought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Wander hand in hand with Thought - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"
A thousand thoughts of sunny weather - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
Between disintegrating thoughts - Jane Kenyon "While We Were Arguing"
Ruined by nothing but my thoughts - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
And thought of no retreat - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Thoroughfare"
Thought it was slapstick throughout - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Hurt with mortal thought - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"
Awakens kindred souls to kindred thought - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Tracking the monsters that trouble their thoughts - Merie Kirby "Mother"
A pause to gather lost thoughts - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Frees his thoughts to soar - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson
Each thought looming - Louise Labe sonnet IV
The strength of second thoughts - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
In the secret ways of thought - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Weary of eddying thought - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"
Folded in like a dark thought - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
An amazon of thought with sovereign eyes - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
All wilder thoughts at rest - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"
Thought themselves safe from obligation - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"
Releasing thought balloons - Dana Levin "A Skull"
My high thoughts, and my golden dreams - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Your outlawed thoughts in your hands - Ada Limon "The Frontier of Never Leaving"
And banish the thoughts of day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"
Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
Thought that success always followed desire - Amy Lowell "The Fool Errant"
Cut myself upon the thought of you - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
Strike the hard edge of a thought - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
The reckless wind of thought - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
Thin veils, woven of thought - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Thought, breaking, rends them in twain - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Sending his herald thoughts before - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Rider between thought and dream - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
A thought shuddered through the silent deep - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Should one thought cry against me - Jeannette Marks "Your Sunlit Way"
Thought clothed in deed is lord - Don Marquis "Words Are Not Guns"
To lure the current of my thought - George Martin "Marguerite"
Holy thoughts in a dreamer's mind - George Martin "Marguerite"
Without thought to consequence - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
A green thought in a green shade - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Thought as soundless as a flood - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
To the last blade of thought - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
The thought writes itself like yeast - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"
Some uninvited thought of me - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
a little jut of thought in her jaw - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"
Beneath the floorboards of my thought - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
No tinted thoughts to paint you true - Claude McKay "Heritage"
That carries thoughts of me - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
We pass the breath of thought - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Breath of thought beyond our bounds - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
The thought that lurks in all delight - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Her flocks are thoughts - Alice Meynell "The Shepherdess"
Thoughts yet unripe - Alice Meynell "The Young Neophyte"
Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Tighten to a thought - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"
My thought ran still - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"
Into a torpor on the brink of thought - Harold Monro "Journey"
This thought crowds upon me - Carlos Montezuma "An Evening's Reverie"
No breath between thoughts - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
Wrought your baser dross to bars of golden thought - George L. Moore "Keats"
Every thought washed of color - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Thought to stay blameless - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"
Along the stem of its thought - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"
of clarity in the prayer's thought - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
When exhausted of my thoughts - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"
With bleaker thoughts inside - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
The fresh liquor of unchained thought - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"
In particular sheets of thoughts - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Write not thy thoughts on snow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Smiled at the thought of Time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Up the mountain-sides of thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"
A dark point of travelling thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Thought grown firm as granite - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
Thought pain had no tongue - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arabic"
The star I thought I wanted - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
My underground thoughts of you - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Carven filigree of Thought - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
Our thoughts converge - Ladan Osman "Boat Journey"
For thought's most sacred cells - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
One serpent thought that fled not - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "My Seal-Ring"
Above the throne of thought - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"
Worthily to clothe some noble thought - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Worlds of starry thoughts appeared - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Not now your winter thoughts - Fernando Pessoa "Epithalamium"
Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"
Plunge forward without thought for consequence - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
Every bud of thought display - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Thought the truth would be a falcon - Carl Phillips "The Raft"
Thought sleep meant rescue - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"
Your thoughts in a virtual space - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 06801"
Lived with no other thought - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
In the monarch Thought's dominion - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
Where deep thoughts are a duty - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"
Separate from all thought - D.A. Powell "The Artist's Hand"
This season of the second thought - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"
A second thought ripening - Lynn Powell "Needing the Baroque"
The secret chambers of my thought - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels: L'Envoi IV"
But he thought not of the reeds - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Red Fisherman; or, the Devil's Decoy"
To let forbidden thoughts go free - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
As a thought passes - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
Empty your thoughts to the stars - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Charms his thought to song - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Whose thoughts dead poets gathered - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"
The intolerable thought none can ignore - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"
Sweet thoughts and beautiful - John Rollin Ridge "Random Thoughts of Her"
Thought at its own axis may be whorled - Lola Ridge "Appulse"
A thought of storm-drenched fields - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"
Upon the withered vine of thought - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Old thoughts, dry as snuff - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Her thought's fine whisper - James Whitcombe Riley "This Dear Child-Hearted Woman that Is Dead"
By the one light of his one thought - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"
Never thought that love had such an end - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
As the bud of thoughts expands - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"
Heights too steep for thought to climb - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Lofty thought scarce held by earthly bound - Amy Redpath Roddick "My Lake"
Fire blown bright by thought - Isaac Rosenberg "Expression"
A sad thought buried in light - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Before I undress another thought - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"
Thoughts ugly as clothespins - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"
Broken to shape of thought - Carl Sandburg "Languages"
Know a dead man's thoughts too well - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
A soul of dreams and thoughts and memories - Carl Sandburg "Skyscraper"
Have twisted comets out of thought - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
When thought's abdication quickens - Delmore Schwartz "The First Morning of the Second World"
Each thought leaning on its horn - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Kept me at the surface of thoughts - Lisa Sewell "The Land of Nod"
Sessions of sweet silent thought - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"
Entertain the time with thoughts of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIV"
The first my thought, the other my desire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
Not farther than my thoughts - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVII"
That the thought of hearts can mend - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIX"
In your sweet thoughts would be forgot - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Mute thoughts on the mute walls around - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
That echoes not my thoughts - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Hung in the gloom of thought - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Sweet thoughts in a dream - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
Hidden in the light of thought - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
The lamplike thought of you - Clark Ashton Smith "Haunting"
Who harvest with the scythe of thought - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Unending thoughts on fire - Richard Solomon "A Riddle"
My thoughts amid the golden spheres - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"
A victim of the curse of thought - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
The restless winds of thought - George Sterling "Willy Pitcher"
Endure our thoughts all night - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Mechanisms of angelic thought - Wallace Stevens "One of the Inhabitants of the West"
Within the thought of the wind - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
Quiet minutes that leave only thoughts of rain - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Fruit from the ripening bough of Thought - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
So I followed where thought should lead - Arthur Stringer "My Heart Stood Empty"
Connoisseur of old thoughts - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
Thoughts like bees in lavender - Muriel Stuart "Madala Goes by the Orphanage"
Free my thoughts from this tangle - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Orange slots of hot thought - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
A passion of thought set free - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
To hand in the ear of thought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"
Who thought to die unmourned - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"
Sudden menace with no thought of the gradual - Dorothea Tanning "Lucky"
Rid myself of dusty thoughts - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson
Thoughts that star the night - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Where thoughts smell in the rain - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
Wild thoughts and strange imaginings - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
To range the world of thought - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Dropped into a cold marble bowl of thought - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"
Friendly thoughts were cliffs to me - Henry David Thoreau "The Departure"
Their thoughts conversing with the sky - Henry David Thoreau "Rumors from an Aeolian Harp"
Thoughts enclosed in words of granite - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
With thoughts that pierce like flame - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Thoughts through narrowing glooms of shade - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
And in thought keep holiday - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Death and music in my thought - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
My thoughts are tangled fast in gloom - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Closed the portal of thought - Miss Augusta C. Twiggs "Night"
Lift your perfumed thoughts aloft - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
a sun you thought existed much closer - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Where a thought, doubling upon itself, considers the way - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
Infinite suggestion of new thought - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"
All the winding pathways of our thought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Who thought a dark eye could save you - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Thought we were an archipelago - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics"
The shred of a thought from the fragments - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Strand of Wampum"
Peach blossoms thought only of fruit to come - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson
And the bird becomes a thought - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
And the thought becomes a dream - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
Why seek with such vain thoughts to wean - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
And turn our thoughts on deeds of blood - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Where lonely thoughts listen and wander - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
To our hearts and thoughts cling fast - Edith Wharton "June and December"
A pure reflection of the inward thought - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"
Hidden thoughts await the light - Kate Louise Wheeler "Hidden Treasures"
All these mansions of its thought - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The adoring eyes of thought - John Hall Wheelock "The Poet Tells of His Love"
Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"
Beggar thoughts pass down the lanes - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
Each day without a thought of you - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Rest from all bitter thoughts - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
In thought and act, in soul and sense - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Hard in his heart's thought - "Wife's Lament" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone
No better than his thoughts - Myra Viola Wilds "Thoughts"
The only haven he thought to give a name - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
The caverns of mysterious thought - Joseph R. Wilson "Mystery"
Burn for them the incense of my thoughts - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"
Shards of broken thoughts - Janet S. Wong "Breath"
Untouched by solemn thought - William Wordsworth "Evening"
The anchor of my purest thoughts - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Whose armor is his honest thought - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
Only the blackbirds know my thoughts - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie III"
No need to believe in thoughts - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
Lost in the technicolor thought of it - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
The tall thought-woven sails - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Put my thoughts astray - W.B. Yeats "Tom the Lunatic"
With you at the center of my thoughts - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi
Like thought unable to arrest itself - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Almost as sweet as the thought - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
To what we thought was the end - Cynthia Zarin "Faun"
The lazy bear of wild thought - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
That numbs thought on the tongue - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 8" transl. by Katherine Silver
Thought that fully ripens - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver
Afterthought.
Who do not tax their lives with forethought - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Fade at forethought's touch - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
Where the sole-thoughted Dante waited him - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Thoughtless.
Eros of the unthought, undreamed - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"
With unthought regret - C. K. Williams "Oh"
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