Potential Titles: Loneliness/Lonely
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somethingdarkerThe symphony of lonely travel - Elmaz Abinader "Forehead"
From the cold wattage of loneliness - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"
What violence from loneliness - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"
No shadow to soften his loneliness - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
Waiting for the lonely piano notes - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Drawn up from the lonely abysses - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Long years of grief have frozen me cold and lonely - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
Lonely as a sailor left to drown - Mike Allen "Ascending"
The loneliness of waking late - Julia Alvarez "What We Ask For"
The lonely bench where lovers rest - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Lost in other lonelinesses of concrete - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
The loneliness of the umbrella - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Red light district"
Pattern recognition was our first response to loneliness - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
Your empires of loneliness - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"
The moving hallways of your loneliness - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Thin"
In her lonely retrospective flight - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"
The poems of a lonely person - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
the lonely dark comes again - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
Singer and shepherd of the lonely past - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
Each carrying our lonely fear - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Their slashed and poisoned loneliness - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Lonely purgatories of the mind - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
My lonely joy in your words - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
The way the stars ambush their loneliness - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Lonely here in recognition's hour - Vera M. Brittain "To A V.C."
Threw a lonely shadow straight - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Into the liquid swell of her loneliness - Sue Budin "Synesthesia"
A rapture on the lonely shore - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Through a lonely cloister's corridors - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall
On the hill with the lonely sun - Bliss Carman "Golden Rowan"
My faith in loneliness - Jennifer Chang "Again a Solstice"
No love for this lonely quilt - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
their hunger entering our loneliness - Lucille Clifton "blake"
Song is sweet in a lonely place - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
For such a lonely choice - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"
Not less lonely for our partnership - Leonard Cohen "Queen Victoria and Me"
All water flows toward loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
To split loneliness like an atom - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
Beneath the roof of loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
And never knew the loneliness of night - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
From lonely downs and silent woods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
A robin shrills his lonely tune - Walter de la Mare "Snow"
Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
Lonely houses off the road - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XV"
Here Echo dwells in lonely mood - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
By Disappointment's lonely shore - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"
Each lonely owl hath ceas'd to call - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
Its twelve lonely years in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Summer Nocturne"
Tremble like lonely reeds - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Could howl all our loneliness - Heid E. Erdich "Animoosh"
Design my pulse to loneliness anew - Summer Farah "After Mount
Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
Lonely Gods on shrouded heights - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Lonely graves recorded the price - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"
When the loneliness is calling for her child - George Blackstone Field "Recalled"
Sun and starlight of the lonely dawn - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
Sweet and delightful are in loneliness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
Only a dog's long lonely howl - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
The freedom of loneliness - Kahlil Gibran "How I Became a Madman (Prologue)"
The unbearable loneliness of sanity - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"
Prefer the lonely to the glittering - Nikita Gill "What It Means to Be a Forgotten Magic Maker"
Loneliness and all forms of desire - Dana Gioia "Prayer at Winter Solstice"
A loneliness more deep than quiet death - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Lonely as a withered leaf - David Gray "Despondency"
By lonely Contemplation led - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Take a lonelier road - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"
If loneliness can be broken - Roy G. Guzman "The Age of Aquarius"
Reduce you to a lonely ghost - Jin Ha "The Long-Distance Traveler"
Ways to occupy loneliness - Nathalie Handal "Counting Time"
Treading a lonely stair - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"
The lonely hollows in the hills - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Taught the Gesture of Heaven"
Love's austere and lonely offices - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
No banner from the lonely tower - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
The dread loneliness of sea and skies - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Lay lonely to the moon - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Moon Dazzle"
Shared my lonely walk on this tremendous brink - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Chanter of the lonely tombs - B. Higgins "One Soldier"
The loneliness of being imperfectly misunderstood - Tony Hoagland "Marriage Song"
From lonely hearths too gray to tell - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
So lonely only rain will help - Jackson Holbert "After Rilke"
Supreme in sullen loneliness - "Hours of Childhood"
The miasmatic mist of the soul of the lonely - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
And is my loneliness capable of that kind of enduring - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"
Shaping another lonely god - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"
Their cries in lonely monotone - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"
In one lonely lingering hour - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"
Lonely in that void even for pain - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
loneliness has forgotten your address - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"
Because they like you better lonely - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"
Built my loneliness twig by twig - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Rewrites Myth"
Invented to obscure loneliness - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
How we cater to loneliness - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
A shipwreck far on lonely seas - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
In that air made of loneliness - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"
More loyal, more lonely, and unsung - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Limitless and void and lonely - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
A new intoxication of loneliness - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"
Lonely sobbing from the thorn - Richard Le Gallienne "Beatrice"
Feathered monarch of the lonely west - Ida Lee "The Homestead"
By white gates lost and lonely - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
Who bore the weight of all our loneliness - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
The boundless, unknowable loneliness of one universe - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
Through the lonely alleys blown - James Russell Lowell "The Recall"
Where the fields lie lonely and untended - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Lonelier aisle or darker crypt - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
With a planet's lonely burden - Percy MacKaye "To William Watson in England"
The single quaver of a lonely lute - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"
Hands dim with loneliness - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
Wandering in the city of loneliness - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (10)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Mistaking loneliness for beauty - Shara McCallum "My Mother as Narcissus"
Loneliness covered in smoke and fog - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"
The rare lonely spirits - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
To hear that lonely passion of the rain - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
On all the lonely sorrows of the earth - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Where loneliest the shrilling cricket calls - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
A tragic, lonely terror grips my heart - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
To commune with the lonely orphan flowers - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A sharecropper of loneliness - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
Long before the lonely night comes on - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Unwedded, lonely as a star - Lewis Morris "Odatis"
Shooting skyward in lonely pinnacles - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The lonely exile of your dead history - Walter Dean Myers "Harland Keith, 33, Reporter"
The moonless vigils of her lonely night - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"
Touch the pulse of my lonely heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Lonely perfect tassels to the wind - Isabel Neal "Drought Essay"
Dissecting the lonely map - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Loneliness commanded salt - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Parched loneliness and the empty night - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The mirror crooning to a lonely crow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
The horse of loneliness, the horse of panic - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Places his lonely altars on them - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Lonely from the beginning of time - Alice Notley "Poem [St. Mark's Place caught at night...]"
How loud the loneliness - Naomi Shihab Nye "Gray Road North from Shenzhen"
Lost love and lonely stars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
In breathless ether lonely hangs - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Built of loneliness and its consequences - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"
The lonely sound of ice - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"
And rang their haunted song, lonely and lost - Andre F. Peltier "Ghosts of Ypsilanti"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Upon the lonely waters of the world - V. De S. Pinto "Swans"
Flower on memory's lonely stream - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
To charm some lonely mermaid's dream - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"
In a lonely wood I wandered once - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Lonely from the beginning of time - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Restlessness of loneliness and agglomerations of rivers - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Amid the silver loneliness of night - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Lonely dreamer of a dream long flown - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
The memory-haunted, lonely rooms - Alice Wellington Rollins "There Will Be Silence Here, Love"
Breaking the long loneliness - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
A music for lonely hearts - Carl Sandburg "To Know Silence Perfectly"
A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
The loneliness stitched to my bones - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #66"
Lonely sunsets flare forlorn - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"
Has lured me to the seven lonely seas - Robert W. Service "The Wanderlust"
I am lonely with questions - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
The thin wind of loneliness may howl - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
The debris of loneliness and bygone times - Marge Simon "Sightings: Fritz Leiber"
Grow ulcers from eating loneliness - Evan Gill Smith "The Cow Speaks to the Child"
The tide of cold and leaden loneliness - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Lonely in her golden glow - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
The wind of lonely places - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Lonely voices at her heart - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"
The lonely chalice of your peace - George Sterling "Sanctuary"
The infinite orbits of all God's loneliest stars - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"
Hiding just past the edge of my loneliness - Keith Taylor "Banff: Running Away"
Out here at the end of a lonely peninsula - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Only the lonely are free - Sara Teasdale "Morning Song"
The lonely monster of desire - Michael Torres "Pockets"
Launched upon the loneliness of time - Iris Tree "Islands"
In loneliness of prayer unlit by life - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
Despite how loneliness drifts beside us all - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
The pleasure I take in loneliness - Chase Twichell "Inland"
Pity him his lonely heaven - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"
A lonely dove in silence flying - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"
Supportive of their high and lonely destiny - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"
A father to my loneliness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"
Dark shrieks and groans and the lonely death rattle - "Waiting for News!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
The lonely expedition toward the center of everything - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Where lonely thoughts listen and wander - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Along the pallid rim her lonely star - John Hall Wheelock "Anne"
Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Lonely memory and moonlight - John Hall Wheelock "October Moonlight"
Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
And cried of grief and loneliness - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
A lonely pathway crept - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"
Proof of our belief in loneliness - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"
A witness standing by your loneliness - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"
Join my loneliness to yours - Nancy Wood "Commitment"
Through the tarn a lonely cheer - William Wordsworth "Fidelity"
Drowning love's lonely hour - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
To find loneliness among them - C. Dale Young "Ruins"
Under the lonely darkness I stumble - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
Plaster crumbles on the lonely walls - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
Over the lonely spire she climbs - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
The roar of lonely torrents swelled - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Holding hands with his loneliness - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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From the cold wattage of loneliness - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"
What violence from loneliness - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"
No shadow to soften his loneliness - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
Waiting for the lonely piano notes - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Drawn up from the lonely abysses - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Long years of grief have frozen me cold and lonely - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
Lonely as a sailor left to drown - Mike Allen "Ascending"
The loneliness of waking late - Julia Alvarez "What We Ask For"
The lonely bench where lovers rest - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Lost in other lonelinesses of concrete - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
The loneliness of the umbrella - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Red light district"
Pattern recognition was our first response to loneliness - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
Your empires of loneliness - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"
The moving hallways of your loneliness - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Thin"
In her lonely retrospective flight - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"
The poems of a lonely person - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
the lonely dark comes again - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
Singer and shepherd of the lonely past - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
Each carrying our lonely fear - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Their slashed and poisoned loneliness - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Lonely purgatories of the mind - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
My lonely joy in your words - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
The way the stars ambush their loneliness - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Lonely here in recognition's hour - Vera M. Brittain "To A V.C."
Threw a lonely shadow straight - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Into the liquid swell of her loneliness - Sue Budin "Synesthesia"
A rapture on the lonely shore - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Through a lonely cloister's corridors - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall
On the hill with the lonely sun - Bliss Carman "Golden Rowan"
My faith in loneliness - Jennifer Chang "Again a Solstice"
No love for this lonely quilt - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
their hunger entering our loneliness - Lucille Clifton "blake"
Song is sweet in a lonely place - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
For such a lonely choice - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"
Not less lonely for our partnership - Leonard Cohen "Queen Victoria and Me"
All water flows toward loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
To split loneliness like an atom - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
Beneath the roof of loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
And never knew the loneliness of night - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
From lonely downs and silent woods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
A robin shrills his lonely tune - Walter de la Mare "Snow"
Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
Lonely houses off the road - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XV"
Here Echo dwells in lonely mood - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
By Disappointment's lonely shore - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"
Each lonely owl hath ceas'd to call - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
Its twelve lonely years in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Summer Nocturne"
Tremble like lonely reeds - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Could howl all our loneliness - Heid E. Erdich "Animoosh"
Design my pulse to loneliness anew - Summer Farah "After Mount
Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
Lonely Gods on shrouded heights - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Lonely graves recorded the price - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"
When the loneliness is calling for her child - George Blackstone Field "Recalled"
Sun and starlight of the lonely dawn - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
Sweet and delightful are in loneliness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
Only a dog's long lonely howl - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
The freedom of loneliness - Kahlil Gibran "How I Became a Madman (Prologue)"
The unbearable loneliness of sanity - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"
Prefer the lonely to the glittering - Nikita Gill "What It Means to Be a Forgotten Magic Maker"
Loneliness and all forms of desire - Dana Gioia "Prayer at Winter Solstice"
A loneliness more deep than quiet death - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Lonely as a withered leaf - David Gray "Despondency"
By lonely Contemplation led - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Take a lonelier road - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"
If loneliness can be broken - Roy G. Guzman "The Age of Aquarius"
Reduce you to a lonely ghost - Jin Ha "The Long-Distance Traveler"
Ways to occupy loneliness - Nathalie Handal "Counting Time"
Treading a lonely stair - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"
The lonely hollows in the hills - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Taught the Gesture of Heaven"
Love's austere and lonely offices - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
No banner from the lonely tower - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
The dread loneliness of sea and skies - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Lay lonely to the moon - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Moon Dazzle"
Shared my lonely walk on this tremendous brink - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Chanter of the lonely tombs - B. Higgins "One Soldier"
The loneliness of being imperfectly misunderstood - Tony Hoagland "Marriage Song"
From lonely hearths too gray to tell - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
So lonely only rain will help - Jackson Holbert "After Rilke"
Supreme in sullen loneliness - "Hours of Childhood"
The miasmatic mist of the soul of the lonely - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
And is my loneliness capable of that kind of enduring - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"
Shaping another lonely god - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"
Their cries in lonely monotone - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"
In one lonely lingering hour - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"
Lonely in that void even for pain - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
loneliness has forgotten your address - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"
Because they like you better lonely - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"
Built my loneliness twig by twig - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Rewrites Myth"
Invented to obscure loneliness - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
How we cater to loneliness - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
A shipwreck far on lonely seas - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
In that air made of loneliness - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"
More loyal, more lonely, and unsung - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Limitless and void and lonely - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
A new intoxication of loneliness - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"
Lonely sobbing from the thorn - Richard Le Gallienne "Beatrice"
Feathered monarch of the lonely west - Ida Lee "The Homestead"
By white gates lost and lonely - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
Who bore the weight of all our loneliness - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
The boundless, unknowable loneliness of one universe - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
Through the lonely alleys blown - James Russell Lowell "The Recall"
Where the fields lie lonely and untended - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Lonelier aisle or darker crypt - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
With a planet's lonely burden - Percy MacKaye "To William Watson in England"
The single quaver of a lonely lute - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"
Hands dim with loneliness - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
Wandering in the city of loneliness - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (10)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Mistaking loneliness for beauty - Shara McCallum "My Mother as Narcissus"
Loneliness covered in smoke and fog - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"
The rare lonely spirits - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
To hear that lonely passion of the rain - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
On all the lonely sorrows of the earth - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Where loneliest the shrilling cricket calls - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
A tragic, lonely terror grips my heart - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
To commune with the lonely orphan flowers - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A sharecropper of loneliness - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
Long before the lonely night comes on - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Unwedded, lonely as a star - Lewis Morris "Odatis"
Shooting skyward in lonely pinnacles - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The lonely exile of your dead history - Walter Dean Myers "Harland Keith, 33, Reporter"
The moonless vigils of her lonely night - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"
Touch the pulse of my lonely heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Lonely perfect tassels to the wind - Isabel Neal "Drought Essay"
Dissecting the lonely map - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Loneliness commanded salt - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Parched loneliness and the empty night - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The mirror crooning to a lonely crow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
The horse of loneliness, the horse of panic - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Places his lonely altars on them - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Lonely from the beginning of time - Alice Notley "Poem [St. Mark's Place caught at night...]"
How loud the loneliness - Naomi Shihab Nye "Gray Road North from Shenzhen"
Lost love and lonely stars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
In breathless ether lonely hangs - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Built of loneliness and its consequences - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"
The lonely sound of ice - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"
And rang their haunted song, lonely and lost - Andre F. Peltier "Ghosts of Ypsilanti"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Upon the lonely waters of the world - V. De S. Pinto "Swans"
Flower on memory's lonely stream - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
To charm some lonely mermaid's dream - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"
In a lonely wood I wandered once - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Lonely from the beginning of time - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Restlessness of loneliness and agglomerations of rivers - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Amid the silver loneliness of night - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Lonely dreamer of a dream long flown - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
The memory-haunted, lonely rooms - Alice Wellington Rollins "There Will Be Silence Here, Love"
Breaking the long loneliness - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
A music for lonely hearts - Carl Sandburg "To Know Silence Perfectly"
A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
The loneliness stitched to my bones - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #66"
Lonely sunsets flare forlorn - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"
Has lured me to the seven lonely seas - Robert W. Service "The Wanderlust"
I am lonely with questions - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
The thin wind of loneliness may howl - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
The debris of loneliness and bygone times - Marge Simon "Sightings: Fritz Leiber"
Grow ulcers from eating loneliness - Evan Gill Smith "The Cow Speaks to the Child"
The tide of cold and leaden loneliness - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Lonely in her golden glow - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
The wind of lonely places - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Lonely voices at her heart - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"
The lonely chalice of your peace - George Sterling "Sanctuary"
The infinite orbits of all God's loneliest stars - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"
Hiding just past the edge of my loneliness - Keith Taylor "Banff: Running Away"
Out here at the end of a lonely peninsula - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Only the lonely are free - Sara Teasdale "Morning Song"
The lonely monster of desire - Michael Torres "Pockets"
Launched upon the loneliness of time - Iris Tree "Islands"
In loneliness of prayer unlit by life - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
Despite how loneliness drifts beside us all - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
The pleasure I take in loneliness - Chase Twichell "Inland"
Pity him his lonely heaven - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"
A lonely dove in silence flying - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"
Supportive of their high and lonely destiny - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"
A father to my loneliness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"
Dark shrieks and groans and the lonely death rattle - "Waiting for News!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
The lonely expedition toward the center of everything - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Where lonely thoughts listen and wander - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Along the pallid rim her lonely star - John Hall Wheelock "Anne"
Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Lonely memory and moonlight - John Hall Wheelock "October Moonlight"
Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
And cried of grief and loneliness - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
A lonely pathway crept - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"
Proof of our belief in loneliness - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"
A witness standing by your loneliness - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"
Join my loneliness to yours - Nancy Wood "Commitment"
Through the tarn a lonely cheer - William Wordsworth "Fidelity"
Drowning love's lonely hour - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
To find loneliness among them - C. Dale Young "Ruins"
Under the lonely darkness I stumble - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
Plaster crumbles on the lonely walls - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
Over the lonely spire she climbs - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
The roar of lonely torrents swelled - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Holding hands with his loneliness - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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