Potential Titles: Madness
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somethingdarkerTo alert me to approaching meteorites and mad dogs - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"
Racked by such mad dance of moods - Léonie Adams "Apostate"
Rollicking mad and musical in their wooing - Ellen Tracy Alden "Blue Eyes"
Their mad career upset a star - Elizabeth Anderson "The Goblins' Christmas"
Cypress death and mad pomegranate - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
Whose thoughts were mad in painful May - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
The mad and whirling suns of the searchlights - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
A mad prophet in a land of dearth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Nos Immortales"
Melt into mad, wet math - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
Where men go mad with craving - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"
A memory of each mad sunset's fire - Paul Bewsher "Autumn Regrets"
The mad wine of passion - Otto Leland Bohanan "Villanelle"
When Joy grew mad with awe - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
Even the prophets suspected they were mad - Scott Cairns "Late Results"
Mad, late children of the year - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Through the night's mad melodies - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Where some mad siren ever sings - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"
And vain mad magic - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Beat mad so soon - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Some mad Moloch screaming for the kill - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"
These strange mad stones - Ralph Chaplin "Retrospect"
Its belief, glittering mad & megawatt - Chen Chen "In the City"
Mix a mad twilight of the moon and sun - G.K. Chesterton "A Wedding in War-Time"
The mad laughter of evolution issues from our lips - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
Sing their mad hymns of triumph - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"
Gathering its forces like mad winds - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"
The wildness of the day's mad ending - E.R. Dodds "Measure"
Such mad perversion tamely to endure - "The Druriad" [1798]
The fire which drives me mad with sweet desire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
In the true mad north of introspection - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
When the sunlight runs away from skies gone mad - Beulah Field "When I Remember"
Thinking you've found the trick for going mad - Annie Finch "In Cities, Be Alert"
The voices of the mad wild birds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Mark the mad ballet of the midsummer sky - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
My breath is the music of the mad wind - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
One mad stray bold from the zenith - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"
Almost mad with the pain of his fall - "The Fox and the Geese"
Strange mad old cities brooding - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Mad to shake the kaleidoscope again - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"
Yelling their mad defiance to our fire - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
A mad star crossed the sky - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"
Mad waters lashed to foam - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"
A voice that drives the hearer mad - Oliver Herford "The Siren"
A mad whirl of cacophony, a wild chanting - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"
Snows, and suns, and mad winds meet - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"
Of a nightingale gone mad with freedom - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Who a mad tale bequeaths to us - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXVI"
Makes a mad, elemental tea - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"
While the mad guns curse overhead - T.M. Kettle "To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God (Elizabeth Dorothy)"
Mad parties between you and me - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
The glad and mad spring weather - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"
This silence and this blank that makes me mad - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"
The mad swirl of leaves and newspapers - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
The mad keeper of numbers is always present - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
The mad young autumn wind - Percy MacKaye "School"
Shapes mad fancies into facts - Don Marquis "Sea Changes II: Moonlight"
None but the wicked and the mad go free - John Masefield "The Haunted"
To glint upon mad water - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"
Too loud the wind's mad roar - Claude McKay "Jasmines"
Release from the mind's mad portraitist - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Beneath the mad moon's face - Michael Mesic "Swallows"
Souls mad for truth have lit from peak to peak - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
How fragile are the strong and mad - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
With mirth and music mad, and set on fire - Louise Chandler Moulton "Across Strange Waters" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Mad dreams are mine to bind - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet's Love-Song"
Silences of a prison with a mad star - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Mad counsels in its hour - John Henry Newman "England"
The wind and its mad, warring tone - Meredith Nicholson "October"
Mad nightingales of joy - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Like individual notes gone mad - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"
To curb each haughty mad emotion - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
As pronounced by the sleeping and the mad - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"
Before the mad clicking on an iPod commenced to spin - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
With mad, impatient hands - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"
A daemon-fane that echoes with mad mirth - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Far off from the mad world's ways - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Flung from a broken star on its mad race - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"
Against this mad vibration of death - Sonia Sanchez "On the Occasion of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary"
Mad with rapture, to the portal - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
When vision shrieked like a mad sunflower - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"
The glee of the mad wind - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
A mad sun goading to frenzied flame - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Singing his glad, mad songs of earth - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"
Far beyond our North's mad riot - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
foster public rivalries with megalomaniacs and mad scientists - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Went mad with the wind's song - George Soule "Solitude"
Mad and dead as nails - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
Mad musicians upon fretted harps - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"
Whose mad hands tear the sky - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore - Virgil "Eclogues IX" (transl. not identified)
The mad sun himself -- blackened crimson - William Carlos Williams "Virtue"
Mad percussive shivaree & glossolalia - David Wojahn "Catawba Cotton Mill, 1908"
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]
Mad as the mist and snow - W.B. Yeats "Mad as the Mist and Snow"
Serpent-furies coil'd around the maddening brain - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
To madden in many a midnight cave - Aion "The Priest's Burial" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Maddened nations at their contre-dance - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
That maddened to burst from its sluices - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Maddening doubts born from the demon cry - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Maddened with light from Beauty's sun - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Maenads maddened by the wine - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
All that a maddened brain romances - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Maddening peculiar purgatory - Tony Hoagland "Proof of Life"
With the clock's monotony maddened - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"
Hear the maddening cheers of men - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"
Maddened winds and waters, reefs unknown - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"
In maddened maelstroms pulverizing itself - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
As if following a maddened gull - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Ode"
An arrow winged before the maddened gale - Robert Morris "A Sea Scene" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
In maddening music roll - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
And while about the maddened Ares raged - Kostes Palamas "A New Ode by the Old Alcaeus" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
From the maddening yoke to be free - Morris Rosenfeld "Despair" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
The maddening pendulum urges me forward - Morris Rosenfeld "In the Factory" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
Beyond the whirl of madd'ning cares - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Out of the maddening chalice of a dream - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
That ruffles the temper or maddens the brain - "The Seaside Sibyl"
And sweeping on to any maddened end - Arthur Stringer "Persephone"
Maddened by the winds of estrangement - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 160: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With rosy kisses maddening all the sky - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
Beckoning ghosts of crime and dreams of maddening beauty - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Shoot from their orbits in a maddening light - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
To run under such maddening skies - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Unreturning"
Madly flung in liquid notes of purest joy - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
Madly the wind-gusts rave - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
And clamored madly at the door - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
The ecstasy of madly listening - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "At the Window"
Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"
Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Rushing madly into the abyss - Carlos Montezuma "Civilization"
Could once my heart-strings madly thrill - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
The moon is the color of the zero that madly refracts - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "Capybara Hot Springs" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Madly had he drunk at passion's fount - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
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Consensual circles of madness and fire - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
Threatened to kill the stars with its madness - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]
A hymn to madness - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
History is an accidental madness - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Bribing the quiet madness of evening - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"
And madness chooses out my voice again - Louise Bogan "Cassandra"
Madness alone of evils do I dread - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
In the fearful time of Gallia's madness - C. "The Young Grey Head" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVIII, v.LIII, Feb. 1843]
Hatched into madness - Heather Cahoon "Łčíčše"
The madness of the spendthrift flower - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
The madness of each one to pride - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Beloved apples of seasonable madness - Hart Crane "Sunday Morning Apples"
Laughter from a madness so divine - Ruben Dario "A Sonnet on Cervantes" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Begets sweet madness and unworthy fire - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
The madness of a mobbed and mocked and murdered people - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whisper madness in our invisible ears - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Stung to madness by the tempest's might - Ben Hecht "Moods"
By madness and treachery blighted - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
madness is always a hunger - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
The madness of the trickster - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"
In some madness of the heart - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"
Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"
All in a honey madness hotly bound - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
Whose sorrow in melodious madness flows - Justin H. McCarthy "Attar of Love"
The plow of our madness - Arch Alfred McKillen "Apocalypse"
Reft of desire, all love and madness gone - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"
Some sweet madness now possess me - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
What madness to the million clings - "Napoleon" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Treason's madness makes them foemen - "The Old Flag Alone" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The muffled madness of fettered murderers - Kostes Palamas "The Sinner" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Can madness from such fountains flow? - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The madness when the old gods rave - Herbert Randall "The Dream That's in the Sea"
And a million tongues of madness rose singing - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
His heart with madness overflowing - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
A madness grew into thundered battle cries - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"
Strong legions of madness and pride - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"
Portrait from the artist tool of madness - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras III" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Thoughts of grief akin to madness - Rudolph Valentino "Powerless"
The sere old fishermen of madness - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
As if my madness could find healing thus - Virgil "Eclogues X" (transl. not identified)
Where madness melts in bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Moonstruck with music and madness - Oscar Wilde "In the Forest"
Assembled in mad-moon crowd - Louis Golding "Gallop"
The madness-struck end up turned inside-out - Bree Wernicke "Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association" [Strange Horizons 13 Oct. 2025]
Bare in a mist-mad forest - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"
These moonmad swans and ecstatic ganders - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
Trapped, stone-mad - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"
Born of a vision-mad organist - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
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Racked by such mad dance of moods - Léonie Adams "Apostate"
Rollicking mad and musical in their wooing - Ellen Tracy Alden "Blue Eyes"
Their mad career upset a star - Elizabeth Anderson "The Goblins' Christmas"
Cypress death and mad pomegranate - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
Whose thoughts were mad in painful May - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
The mad and whirling suns of the searchlights - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
A mad prophet in a land of dearth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Nos Immortales"
Melt into mad, wet math - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
Where men go mad with craving - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"
A memory of each mad sunset's fire - Paul Bewsher "Autumn Regrets"
The mad wine of passion - Otto Leland Bohanan "Villanelle"
When Joy grew mad with awe - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
Even the prophets suspected they were mad - Scott Cairns "Late Results"
Mad, late children of the year - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Through the night's mad melodies - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Where some mad siren ever sings - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"
And vain mad magic - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Beat mad so soon - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Some mad Moloch screaming for the kill - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"
These strange mad stones - Ralph Chaplin "Retrospect"
Its belief, glittering mad & megawatt - Chen Chen "In the City"
Mix a mad twilight of the moon and sun - G.K. Chesterton "A Wedding in War-Time"
The mad laughter of evolution issues from our lips - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
Sing their mad hymns of triumph - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"
Gathering its forces like mad winds - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"
The wildness of the day's mad ending - E.R. Dodds "Measure"
Such mad perversion tamely to endure - "The Druriad" [1798]
The fire which drives me mad with sweet desire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
In the true mad north of introspection - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
When the sunlight runs away from skies gone mad - Beulah Field "When I Remember"
Thinking you've found the trick for going mad - Annie Finch "In Cities, Be Alert"
The voices of the mad wild birds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Mark the mad ballet of the midsummer sky - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
My breath is the music of the mad wind - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
One mad stray bold from the zenith - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"
Almost mad with the pain of his fall - "The Fox and the Geese"
Strange mad old cities brooding - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Mad to shake the kaleidoscope again - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"
Yelling their mad defiance to our fire - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
A mad star crossed the sky - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"
Mad waters lashed to foam - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"
A voice that drives the hearer mad - Oliver Herford "The Siren"
A mad whirl of cacophony, a wild chanting - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"
Snows, and suns, and mad winds meet - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"
Of a nightingale gone mad with freedom - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Who a mad tale bequeaths to us - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXVI"
Makes a mad, elemental tea - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"
While the mad guns curse overhead - T.M. Kettle "To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God (Elizabeth Dorothy)"
Mad parties between you and me - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
The glad and mad spring weather - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"
This silence and this blank that makes me mad - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"
The mad swirl of leaves and newspapers - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
The mad keeper of numbers is always present - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
The mad young autumn wind - Percy MacKaye "School"
Shapes mad fancies into facts - Don Marquis "Sea Changes II: Moonlight"
None but the wicked and the mad go free - John Masefield "The Haunted"
To glint upon mad water - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"
Too loud the wind's mad roar - Claude McKay "Jasmines"
Release from the mind's mad portraitist - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Beneath the mad moon's face - Michael Mesic "Swallows"
Souls mad for truth have lit from peak to peak - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
How fragile are the strong and mad - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
With mirth and music mad, and set on fire - Louise Chandler Moulton "Across Strange Waters" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Mad dreams are mine to bind - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet's Love-Song"
Silences of a prison with a mad star - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Mad counsels in its hour - John Henry Newman "England"
The wind and its mad, warring tone - Meredith Nicholson "October"
Mad nightingales of joy - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Like individual notes gone mad - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"
To curb each haughty mad emotion - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
As pronounced by the sleeping and the mad - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"
Before the mad clicking on an iPod commenced to spin - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
With mad, impatient hands - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"
A daemon-fane that echoes with mad mirth - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Far off from the mad world's ways - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Flung from a broken star on its mad race - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"
Against this mad vibration of death - Sonia Sanchez "On the Occasion of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary"
Mad with rapture, to the portal - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
When vision shrieked like a mad sunflower - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"
The glee of the mad wind - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
A mad sun goading to frenzied flame - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Singing his glad, mad songs of earth - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"
Far beyond our North's mad riot - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
foster public rivalries with megalomaniacs and mad scientists - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Went mad with the wind's song - George Soule "Solitude"
Mad and dead as nails - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
Mad musicians upon fretted harps - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"
Whose mad hands tear the sky - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore - Virgil "Eclogues IX" (transl. not identified)
The mad sun himself -- blackened crimson - William Carlos Williams "Virtue"
Mad percussive shivaree & glossolalia - David Wojahn "Catawba Cotton Mill, 1908"
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]
Mad as the mist and snow - W.B. Yeats "Mad as the Mist and Snow"
Serpent-furies coil'd around the maddening brain - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
To madden in many a midnight cave - Aion "The Priest's Burial" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Maddened nations at their contre-dance - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
That maddened to burst from its sluices - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Maddening doubts born from the demon cry - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Maddened with light from Beauty's sun - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Maenads maddened by the wine - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
All that a maddened brain romances - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Maddening peculiar purgatory - Tony Hoagland "Proof of Life"
With the clock's monotony maddened - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"
Hear the maddening cheers of men - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"
Maddened winds and waters, reefs unknown - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"
In maddened maelstroms pulverizing itself - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
As if following a maddened gull - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Ode"
An arrow winged before the maddened gale - Robert Morris "A Sea Scene" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
In maddening music roll - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
And while about the maddened Ares raged - Kostes Palamas "A New Ode by the Old Alcaeus" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
From the maddening yoke to be free - Morris Rosenfeld "Despair" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
The maddening pendulum urges me forward - Morris Rosenfeld "In the Factory" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
Beyond the whirl of madd'ning cares - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Out of the maddening chalice of a dream - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
That ruffles the temper or maddens the brain - "The Seaside Sibyl"
And sweeping on to any maddened end - Arthur Stringer "Persephone"
Maddened by the winds of estrangement - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 160: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With rosy kisses maddening all the sky - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
Beckoning ghosts of crime and dreams of maddening beauty - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Shoot from their orbits in a maddening light - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
To run under such maddening skies - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Unreturning"
Madly flung in liquid notes of purest joy - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
Madly the wind-gusts rave - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
And clamored madly at the door - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
The ecstasy of madly listening - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "At the Window"
Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"
Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Rushing madly into the abyss - Carlos Montezuma "Civilization"
Could once my heart-strings madly thrill - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
The moon is the color of the zero that madly refracts - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "Capybara Hot Springs" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Madly had he drunk at passion's fount - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Madman.
Consensual circles of madness and fire - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
Threatened to kill the stars with its madness - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]
A hymn to madness - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
History is an accidental madness - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Bribing the quiet madness of evening - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"
And madness chooses out my voice again - Louise Bogan "Cassandra"
Madness alone of evils do I dread - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
In the fearful time of Gallia's madness - C. "The Young Grey Head" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVIII, v.LIII, Feb. 1843]
Hatched into madness - Heather Cahoon "Łčíčše"
The madness of the spendthrift flower - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
The madness of each one to pride - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Beloved apples of seasonable madness - Hart Crane "Sunday Morning Apples"
Laughter from a madness so divine - Ruben Dario "A Sonnet on Cervantes" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Begets sweet madness and unworthy fire - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
The madness of a mobbed and mocked and murdered people - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whisper madness in our invisible ears - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Stung to madness by the tempest's might - Ben Hecht "Moods"
By madness and treachery blighted - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
madness is always a hunger - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
The madness of the trickster - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"
In some madness of the heart - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"
Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"
All in a honey madness hotly bound - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
Whose sorrow in melodious madness flows - Justin H. McCarthy "Attar of Love"
The plow of our madness - Arch Alfred McKillen "Apocalypse"
Reft of desire, all love and madness gone - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"
Some sweet madness now possess me - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
What madness to the million clings - "Napoleon" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Treason's madness makes them foemen - "The Old Flag Alone" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The muffled madness of fettered murderers - Kostes Palamas "The Sinner" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Can madness from such fountains flow? - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The madness when the old gods rave - Herbert Randall "The Dream That's in the Sea"
And a million tongues of madness rose singing - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
His heart with madness overflowing - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
A madness grew into thundered battle cries - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"
Strong legions of madness and pride - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"
Portrait from the artist tool of madness - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras III" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Thoughts of grief akin to madness - Rudolph Valentino "Powerless"
The sere old fishermen of madness - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
As if my madness could find healing thus - Virgil "Eclogues X" (transl. not identified)
Where madness melts in bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Moonstruck with music and madness - Oscar Wilde "In the Forest"
Assembled in mad-moon crowd - Louis Golding "Gallop"
The madness-struck end up turned inside-out - Bree Wernicke "Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association" [Strange Horizons 13 Oct. 2025]
Bare in a mist-mad forest - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"
These moonmad swans and ecstatic ganders - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
Trapped, stone-mad - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"
Born of a vision-mad organist - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
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