Potential Titles: Loneliness/Lonely

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The 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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