Potential Titles: Love
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somethingdarkeri set my love out over an ocean of space - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"
By omission of love or boundaries - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
In love with the idea of staying - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"
Glow with the weight of love - Aria Aber "Ode to My Hair"
All the dreaming towers wrought by Love - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Search for love's trembling fringe - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Where the smiles of love invite - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
And whisper tenderly of generous love - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"
Solemnly bearing my dead loves away - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
The white wind loves you - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
How did the Enemy love you - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
A reason his love tastes bitter - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"
Wanted love more than history - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
A coin, a debt owed to love - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
For whom books are love letters - Julia Alvarez "Reading for Pleasure"
Love unhinged from shame - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"
Plunging doubt's knives into what I love - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"
Fragrant with the scent of love and longing - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"
What is grief but a love that is too vast for us? - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Trinkets of borrowed loves - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"
I don't know a love that doesn't destroy - Diannely Antigua "Anniversary"
Confuse light with love - Rae Armantrout "The Light"
For love, hope, reprieve - Simon Armitage "Maundy Thursday"
Their might hearts swelling loved Luna to greet - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
That loves to run with storms - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Drown our love in that confusion - Atticus "Magic in Love"
In love with all the ways we were - Atticus "Magic in Love"
More love in a storm with you - Atticus "Magic in Love"
In the spinning blossom of your love - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
curated with loving precision - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Centuries in layers of abandoned love - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
Abandoned love kept whispering hope - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
And unite with your bitter love - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (2)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Falling in love with the sun - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
Small love effaced by a late disbelieving - Mary Jo Bang "Begin Here"
An undaunted love of lightning and live wire - Mary Jo Bang "Inconsequent Moment"
Into love's sweet looking glass - Mary Jo Bang "She Loved Falling"
Who had fallen in love with amnesia - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"
They can be said to love - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
Where love anxious waits - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
Love cold steel and powder - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited
A song of love and light divine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited
Any pickaxe disguised as love - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
Fashioned love from strangers - Jan Beatty "Drag"
Amid the beaming of love's stars - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "Dirge"
Loved the moon more than the cold sun - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
A lake which fell in love with a swan - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
An angel in love's vestment clad - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Love is an iron lord - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
My love holds while the earth endures - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Strange love for the living, strange love for the dead - Emily Berry "The End"
Love my lost convention - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"
Poised between love and grief - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Wading love's amber arpeggios - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"
That loves to dwell 'midst skulls and coffins - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Between nerve and the crime it loves - Tommye Blount "Lycanthropy"
Love's rich and trusting light - Edmund Blunden "The South-West Wind"
The winding paradise of old loves - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"
Every face you ever loved forget - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
For I have loved the cities of the sea - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
The friendly ghost that was your love and mind - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
A blighted winter bough where love and music used to be - Arna Bontemps "A Tree Design"
In this swirling meccano of empires and loves - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
A hymn to loving something so generous and good - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
The few loved left living - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"
Where wisdom ever laughed at love - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
Meticulous and serious love - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"
The grape of Love's deathless vine - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
With the fiery love of stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Love me in the lightest part - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Man's Requirements"
Love me with thy thinking soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Man's Requirements"
So lost in love's supremacy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Through love's eternity - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XIV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Fear to call it loving - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Woman's Shortcomings"
The leading star of love - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Sending love to distant towers - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Love fits the soul with wings - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIII. Celestial and Earthly Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
With love and with compassion brave - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"
Footbridges love the past - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
The warmest days of our love - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
With those I never succeeded to love - Julie Byrne "Sleepwalker"
Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Nor ruder love than mine be near - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Garment of a thousand loves - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
Love's richest music flowing - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall
So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Given for love and sold for utter anguish - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
Trembling with full love for Night - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
The bitter root of love - Jennifer Chang "Episteme 12"
So strange and frozen feels your love - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Love is larger than declaration - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Whom the heavens loved in vain - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
No love for this lonely quilt - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
See our love in the concentric ripples - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Trampled the tendrils of love in the ground - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Swallowing so much love - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"
So in love with mortals - Lucille Clifton "sorrows"
With Love in the flower of dawn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
A heart for loves to travel - Arthur Hugh Clough "Through a Glass Darkly"
Love itself flies after - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"
Where the breaking is for love - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"
The code of our frozen love - Leonard Cohen "Lullaby"
Burned the house I loved - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"
A riddle in the book of love - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Have wasted my blood in aimless love - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
Such balancing monsters of love - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"
To the axe of your love - Leonard Cohen "A Woman's Decision"
Where we call up love and family - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Infinite Love rules the heart of the storm - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The love of soul yields not to change of state - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
By love unknown attended - Benjamin Copeland "Christmas"
Love never clung to the nettle - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"
Love's arrows falling in the grass - Walter Crane "Love's Arrows"
Love not consumed in passion's heart - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The last knot that love could tie - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Love's a universe - e.e. cummings "nothing false and possible is love…"
the moved myriads wonderfully loved - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Though love be a day and life be nothing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
By loves first fantasies oppresssed - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
When love stands with such radiant wings - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
Loving with such a tender fear - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"
Her hurt was spindle to her love - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"
Love opened a mortal wound - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)
Counted all the ways love hurt me - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)
Where in to sing love's requiem - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
The plateau piles everything you love back into dust - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Love bade me follow in his chosen train - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Since in love only is set my happiness - Christine de Pisan "[Very God of Love, who art of lovers Lord]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The daggered edges of love - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Where dead loves are forgotten - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
A winter twilight in love's garden - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Loved to death, to damnation and God-death - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"
How much love can a desert drink - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
I might not love freedom at all - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
The little toil of love - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XXII"
the type of monster you used to love - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Love's pinnace overfraught - John Donne "Air and Angels"
All love of other sights controls - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Love's radiant avatar - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
Love's ancient fire - Ernest Christopher Dowson "In Tempore Senectutis"
Of names that were most to love - John Drinkwater "The Old Warrior"
And love shall now go desolate - John Drinkwater "Plough"
Love immortal leaped to flame - Louise Driscoll "Fireflies"
Red as first love's heart - Carol Ann Duffy "The Woman Who Shopped"
Decided love was possible - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Flock"
Thorns and love in the roses' bed - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"
Cruel Love by my pillow - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
A stainless spirit, born of Love undying - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Loves the dews of the starry night - Charles G. Eastman "The Yellow Corn"
With love in every running crest - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
My love reborn and burning - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"
By one who breathes with love - George Allan England "My Garden"
Whose garden was the loving heart - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"
My first love was silence - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Warp of sleep and woof of love - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"
Loved darkness with my needle-teeth - J. Federle "Possession of the Farmer's Son"
A beggar may be liberal of love - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"
Bask in the sunlight of a love so high - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Light of love and mercy shine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
Break them the bread of love and pour the wine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
The seven we loved, the six we lost - Katie Ford "Koi"
Know that love needs nurture - Mary Weston Fordham "For Who?"
Tell of love dead and unspoken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Something there is that doesn't love a wall - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"
To know the love of bare November days - Robert Frost "My November Guest"
The love of bare November days - Robert Frost "My November Guest"
Who loved the garden of the sea - Zona Gale "Return"
The love that I give the green - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
To discover love that lurks in sorrow's smart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton
Anchor me brave, anchor me loving - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"
Our hearts happy with love unexpressed - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Shall never have any fear of love - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Content with a vegetable love - W.S. Gilbert "Bunthorne's Song"
Love when it becomes a chore - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"
Kissed by the wild and loved by lightning - Nikita Gill "The Moon Goddess"
Love's best enchantment - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The love language of my grandmother's hands - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
In love with turbulence - Louise Gluck "Aboriginal Landscape"
Love with a finite mouth - Rae Gouirand "Dishes"
Cry to the stars that love rides by - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Sour disintegrations of Love's power - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"
Whispered love and muttered fears - Robert Graves "The Spoilsport"
And Love stands watching by the deep - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
Transparently in love with doom - Linda Gregerson "Spring Snow"
You said let's love like the lotus - Kimberly Grey "Reverie"
Loved to the end - Jennifer Grotz "Staring into the Sun"
With love's suspicion kindling - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Who loves our fairest joys to spoil - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Evening Star"
Sanctuary of love close guarded - Ivor Gurney "The Farm"
Your ways of varying love - Ivor Gurney "That County"
We wasted thoughts of love - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
Invaluable in love - Jin Ha "Surprise" (translated by the author)
Done what love demanded - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"
Winning Love's alchemic power - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Love's sweet share of selfishness - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
That may not guard the door that love itself unbarred - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Love at the end of the train line - Joy Harjo "Rainy Night"
Attempt to barter with love - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Loves the dews of spring - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
Love's austere and lonely offices - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
An abiding love for the abstract - Terrance Hayes "Mystic Bounce"
A capacity for love without forgiveness - Terrance Hayes "Snow for Wallace Stevens"
To bed me down among my love's hideouts - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"
A ring to store the memories of love - Seamus Heaney "Punishment"
And Love keeps sentry - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
The harp once loved by thine - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
For all he loved had room - Felicia Hemans "Epitaph on Mr W--, a Celebrated Mineralogist"
A turtle with love pushing from behind - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A little of love and a deathless song - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
My love's despairing cry filled hell with melody - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Eurydice"
Rising in the glow of Love's own fire - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
Dissolve in Love's soft flame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"
Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"
When nuclear testing began north of love - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Unprepared for love - Edward Hirsch "Denis Diderot"
In the corner seat of love - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"
Unencumbered by love of earth - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
And loves like Ruth's of old no end - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Victim's of old Enchantment's love or hate - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
With the love of my strained bones - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"
That smiled away their loving breath - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
As the tender love the strong - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"
The love hope nourished - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The First Watch: Tired"
The space love doesn't give us - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
The last besieged retreat of love - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
Love without resource or peace - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
With tears of love and longing - Lionel Johnson "Desideria"
Where love needs no speech - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
More than roses love the sun - Edward Smyth Jones "To Estelle"
Empathy loves the damaged - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Fountain of undescended love - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Over every awful kind of love - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"
Trained to love the blade - Courtney Kampa "Hunger"
Where the crazy love of a slope takes over - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"
Love in counterpoise to silver glitter - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
So capable of love - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Love at first remembrance - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
In love with your solitude - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Whiter still than Leda's love - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Half in love with easeful Death - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Love its withering sunshine lend - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
Love was melting our two souls - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"
Into crowds of the loved and hated - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
A kind of love always caught in the underworld - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 1"
Be mistaken for someone you once loved - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
Our love double-knotted, saddle-stitched - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"
Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
For Love forbids her death - Joyce Kilmer "In Memoriam: Florence Nightingale"
Love's rosary is ours - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Rosary"
The wounds of Love's consuming flame - Joyce Kilmer "St. Laurence"
Love's ancient magic run - Joyce Kilmer "Summer of Love"
Interrupted by falling in love - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
love is not a condition for safety - Eunsong Kim "Psalm"
Cash in for forever love - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
To represent the shapes required of love - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
With the salt of love in my eyes - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Choose to love the dawn - Christopher Kondrich "Asylum"
Awful love took flame - Louise Labe sonnet IV
And their hearts in love were bound - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Love is mightiest next to fate - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"
Loved of the roving moth - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
The catastrophe of your exaggerate love - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"
Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"
I come to confiscate your love - Katy Lederer "Love"
But everyone knows love is bankrupt - Katy Lederer "Love"
Learning to recognize what we love - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"
Sobs of love whose sound appalls - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Down the winding stair of love - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Crooning of love and of manifold things - Henry S. Leigh "Chivalry for the Cradle No. 2--A Legend of Banbury-Cross"
Love seeks no mortal approbation - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Flames in her love from the fires above - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
But Love came not - Amy Levy "A Cross-Road Epitaph"
Hungry for love and music - Amy Levy "Medea"
Love has been here before - Amy Levy "New Love, New Life"
And the flame of Love grow cold - Amy Levy "To Death"
My love was a jester on the rails - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Loves the juniper smell of gin - Rebecca Lindenberg "The Splendid Body"
A hawk that loves my shoulder - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
The lions and roses and lilies of love - Vachel Lindsay "For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines"
The azure bells of eternal love - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"
Love haunting your very name - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
Our radical love of breath in motion - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"
Unrelenting as the curse of love - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Spendthrift Love's false friends - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"
Your hour glass loves - Mina Loy "Poe"
Whom our English hearts have loved - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"
Gone to the Hades of dead loves - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Love of grey-blue distance - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"
Drunk with old wine of love - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"
My love in the light of steel - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
The King who loved the lilies - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"
This cup of golden love dream-deep - Jeannette Marks "Beside the Way"
That love must carry its burden - Jeannette Marks "Clear Pools"
With a great soul's deepest love - Jeannette Marks "His Name"
Voice of all lost love and agony - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"
In such a place, love met me once - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Love in the midst of rue - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
Love and I laughed down the fates - Don Marquis "Across the Night"
Love in the bonds of breath - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"
Vine-wreathed and vagabond Love - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Finds it hard to love an absence - Maya Marshall "Some Thoughts on Sons in the Winter of My Child-Bearing Years"
The incense of pure love - George Martin "Marguerite"
Before losing love against itself - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"
The great scourge of the great love - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Know love in the desperate abyss - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Along the hallowed paths of love - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
To that abysmal love outpoured - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
The phantom of absent loved ones - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"
Love's softly glowing spark - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
A love so fugitive and so complete - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
Of calm love and soulful snows - Claude McKay "To Winter"
Love glorious in his friendly might - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
The thorn of our red love - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
The draught that blest love sips - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
With tones of love - George Meredith "Melampus"
Could be loved for what costs us nothing - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
But it is winter with your love - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Alms"
Should have loved you presently - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet II from A Few Figs from Thistles
I do not love you Thursday - Edna St Vincent Millay "Thursday"
The fabric of my faithful love - Edna St Vincent Millay "To the Not Impossible Him"
Have repaid my love with guile - "The Misanthrope"
Without such devious love - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Shared Plight"
And love forget it not - "The Moon's Pale Ray"
I only want love to hold me for ransom - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
And tell me our love is remembered - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
With a throng of beauty, dreams and loves - William Moore "Expectancy"
Love's golden chain and burning vow - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
When love dispelled the clouds of care - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Our love past dust - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"
Stained the sun with blackened love - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A window where love weeps - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
From love's dark uncertain shore - Walter Dean Myers "Marcia Williams, 17, High School Senior"
Let me love that shine in you - Eileen Myles "for you"
Lost in my love's absence - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Love and anger and white-gold milk - Maggie Nelson "The World"
Gathered the flags of shattered love - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Rain on a day of love - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Formed by urgent love and geometry - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Seeds split off from love - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Propelled by your intrepid love - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Love has to earn his bread - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"
White palaces wrought for love - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Spent my love on worthless toys - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"
Since Love is a mirror we break - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
I have nightmares every time I fall in love - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
As my blue love reaches for what's left - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
What dissolves time more absolutely than love? - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
Discover our common love of bones - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"
Old love shall dwell with old delight - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"
The sun does not love - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]
Ineffable testimonies of the love that permeates existence - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
With an undivided heart I loved - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Lying on Love's ruin - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
The burden of love ungiven - Grace Fallow Norton "Oh, the Burden, the Burden of Love Ungiven"
None but Love will understand - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Though my love forget my name - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Lost love and lonely stars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
The gauge of our love's guilt - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: V. Doctor’s Wife"
The consequences of falling in love - Achy Obejas "Naiad"
All I want is boundless love - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
More room in your heart for love - Mary Oliver "Storage"
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Steals the light of Love's secret - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"
Love beyond created sight - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"
That ways of love are never new - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"
Cover with ashes our love's cold crater - Dorothy Parker "Nocturne"
From love's abysmal ether - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Canto I: Preludes III: The Poet's Confidence"
Teaching me how to love the world again - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
That hath loved his folly - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
Echoes of our buried love - Walter S. Percy "Grief and Joy"
The little words of love - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
Found two colors of love - Willie Perdomo "Poet in Harlem"
One bright, flashing hammer of love - Carl Phillips "Initial Descent"
Know nothing of east or west or love - Carl Phillips "Refrain"
No other way to tether love - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
If the border does not love us - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
For me to love among the flowers - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"
Love among the songs of birds - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"
Even love can be no shield - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
In love with last chances - D. A. Powell "The Imaginal State"
The shadows of love's dream - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Falls in love with those icy eyes of chaos - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
The golden chain of my love - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: The Tyrant and the Captive"
Transfigured in the golden mist of love - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"
You do not love like an albatross - Paige Quinones "Elegy Ending on the Ocean Floor"
Who love me to the marrow of my bones - Danni Quintos "Quintos"
Magnetize a compass of love - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"
Who live, and love, and dying make amends - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"
The way the blue jay loves the sparrow egg - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
Will love you through prize and peril - Jacques J. Rancourt "Mt. Diablo"
Love's wedded tidal song - Theodore H. Rand "Annapolis Basin"
But rather truth for love's own sake - Theodore H. Rand "Conduct"
The news of light and love - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
Makes willing answer to Love's call - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
What harvest comes from love - Molly Raynor "Labor"
anger is love divided into long sleeps - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
Too sick in their love to notice - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
Though this widowed heart may love another - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Mock not love so deeply hearted - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Anger and fear rotating on an axle of love - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
Little hatreds and chiming loves - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The love of her lyric body - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
And loved you for what they are not - Lola Ridge "Mother"
In fealty to love's enduring ties - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"
Love's white hand upon my wrist - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
The colors of all the saddest love songs - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"
For love's obliterations of the crowd - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
Old record of loves and tears - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
This was the end love made - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Never thought that love had such an end - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
For every need of my love's craving - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
Where love's sweet offerings fall - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
Should be love's best interpreter - Alice Wellington Rollins "If I Could Know, Love"
The rose of love bewilderingly sweet - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Rose"
Love of finished years - Christina Rossetti "Echo"
Three sang of love together - Christina Rossetti "A Triad"
Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Meantime his love maintains my life - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
In the love that gives us ourselves - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Love gone down with song - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Love sold me for a single fault - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry
Love is for vanishing - Rumi "Someone Digging in the Ground" transl. by Coleman Barks
Stray gleams of love and truth - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Love and hate braided in mutual need - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
That drinks the river of my love - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Leave me a little love - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg "Theme in Yellow"
The fine cloth of your love - Carl Sandburg "They Buy with an Eye to Looks"
Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"
But love can gather the sweetest honey - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Young love and broken life - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
An unknown love enchants our solitude - George Santayana "Premonition"
A garden of all we've loved - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Let love be silent - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Till valor and love be no more - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
The hummingbird loves you - Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage "Petunia Blossoms"
Washed their faces clean of love - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
Love at the core of the universe - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Harbours wrought by love - Frederick George Scott "To My Wife"
Posting missives of hidden love for strangers - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"
Loved me at arms' length - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
The kind of love that lands like a leaf - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Only in this hoarded span will love persevere - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"
But unrequited love can make an avalanche - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
The perfect ceremony of love's rite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"
Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"
Such civil war is in my love and hate - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXV"
Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
Entertain the time with thoughts of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"
In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"
Imperial light wakes love to life - "She Sits Alone" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Soon lost for new love - Anonymous "The Shepherds Farewell"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Lured by all the love untold - Frank Dempster Sherman "The Song"
Voice I loved beyond the storm - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"
He dearly loves the broken heart - Mary Dana Shindler "The Bended Knee"
Bound me with the cords of love - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"
With the richest love he feeds me - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"
Cats sneered at our pathetic need for feline love - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Buy my love a sword of steel - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The deep scars of love - David Shumate "Passing Through a Small Town"
Love scarlet adore pink thrive on orange - Joyce Sidman "Ultraviolet"
Lost to memory, love, and fame - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Love always wakes the dragon - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"
With love screaming - Charles Simic "The Infinite"
Love and fate crossed out - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"
Of love tending toward catastrophe - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
The old complaint of love and dollars - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
And love was a binary star - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
Which Pygmalion made and loved - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Where love shall be complete - Effie Smith "Thanksgiving"
A sea of loving phrases - Hope Anita Smith "Words"
Where my dreaming and my loving live - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Listen to the love calls of wild geese - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Love has a hundred gentle ends - Leonora Speyer "Two Passionate Ones Part"
With love's leisurely vanished pace - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"
The laws and trysts of love and gravity - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"
Love's taper grew more bright - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
And love offended lights a fire - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Sorrow and Art made Love - George Sterling "A Character"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
As love by silence hid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
Is bitter with our love's delay - George Sterling "Until Thou Comest"
The more blurred our love was - Gerald Stern "Hearts"
Ripening in love's golden grace - William W. Story "The Violet"
And love was sold upon your lips - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
In love with a meager stipend - Su Tung-p'o "New Year's Eve" transl. by Burton Watson
That forces Love himself to dance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Who loved the lord of music - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
Each change of love in eyelids and eyebrows - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
Lost with her love in the underworld - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Though love in your heart were brittle - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Love which promised truth - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
Faith responds to love's regret - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
Mother of loves and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
And win the love of ages after - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
And claim to love the wind and winter - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"
Eyes that love you - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
That Love may starve - Sara Teasdale "Over the Roofs"
Quiet at the heart of love - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Love will still be a hungry disciple - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
To glow in hymns of love - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"
Had loved your distant voice - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Love which thus hallows the ground - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Spendthrift of passion in love's bankruptcy - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"
Wreathing love with poppies and with ashes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
What grief of love had he to stifle - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
Sisters linked in love and light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
That rivetted life with love - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
As if love could be contained in glass - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The ghost of love conjured as fruit - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Reached the haven of love's wayward tide - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Open to the love of fire - Nadia Tueni [Untitled] transl. by Carol Cosman
Love and the brine of the north wind - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Photos from yesterday's love affair - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
In secret for loving the spring - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
In the visible flame of my love - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
Love, trampling and invincible - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"
a love stripping itself bare - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
With love that tastes like starving to death - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
How long the echoes love to play - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
Happier in the loss of love - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"
The heart puts love above it all - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"
To have loved one horizon - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"
Kills everything but Love - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"
Threw sweet love upon the winds - Charles William Wallace "The Lone Wayside Wild Rose"
Baffled by death and love - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward "The Room's Width"
True faith in what love yields - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"
The strands of hunger, death, and love - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Shall sorrow for my love - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
As the twilight loves the dark - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
As the water loves the sea - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
Touched to love this heart - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Fallen from your faultless love - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
What token of your lone love - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
The old sorrow we loved before - John Hall Wheelock "Sorrowful Freedom"
A false love and a dismantled heart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
Then in love set each one free - Myra Viola Wilds "Thoughts"
Will meet and love again - Emma Lowrey Williams "Life"
Stood and loved you while you slept - Miller Williams "A Poem for Emily"
Always at some new loving treason - William Carlos Williams "The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven"
What is denied to love - William Carlos Williams "The Descent"
The swoon of love that soars in fire to fall - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"
My candle died with love - Humbert Wolfe "Pierrot"
A moment spent with love - Humbert Wolfe "The Trembling Brim"
The sap that love distills to joy - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"
With love in silence shrined - Adolf Wolff "To a Friend"
Deeper zeal of holier love - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Love, faithful love - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"
Standing on love's complementary estate - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Love's heavy open door - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
Such a night as witches love - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
The waning of love has beset us - W.B. Yeats "The Falling of the Leaves"
Drowning love's lonely hour - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
Hid in the heart of love - W.B. Yeats "The Pity of Love"
Who loves a life among fig roots - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
This hush love creates - C. Dale Young "Hush"
Write unsigned love letters - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"
Love and time, eternal enemies - Adam Zagajewski "Epithalamium"
To swim in the middle of love - Javier Zamora "Vows"
With ordinary loves and concerns - Matthew Zapruder "Yellowtail"
After a little of what true misery loves - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
By years of unremitting love - Rachel Zucker "Paying Down the Debt: Happiness"
A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"
That carved these love knots - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Our bodices with love-knots laced - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Broken love-knots, quaintly curled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
Soothing her love-laden soul - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
The loveless, hearthless arctic night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Descends into the loveless dust - W.B. Yeats "From the 'Antigone'"
A love-lorn nightingale among owls - Rumi "Thou Didst Go to the Rose-Garden" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
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A cursed bouquet of love-me-nots - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata: On Faith"
Poison in meal most lovingly made - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
So lovingly made with iron fire - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Unloved in the hourglass of dust - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Ruth and Matthew Mead
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By omission of love or boundaries - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
In love with the idea of staying - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"
Glow with the weight of love - Aria Aber "Ode to My Hair"
All the dreaming towers wrought by Love - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Search for love's trembling fringe - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Where the smiles of love invite - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
And whisper tenderly of generous love - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"
Solemnly bearing my dead loves away - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
The white wind loves you - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
How did the Enemy love you - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
A reason his love tastes bitter - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"
Wanted love more than history - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
A coin, a debt owed to love - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
For whom books are love letters - Julia Alvarez "Reading for Pleasure"
Love unhinged from shame - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"
Plunging doubt's knives into what I love - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"
Fragrant with the scent of love and longing - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"
What is grief but a love that is too vast for us? - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Trinkets of borrowed loves - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"
I don't know a love that doesn't destroy - Diannely Antigua "Anniversary"
Confuse light with love - Rae Armantrout "The Light"
For love, hope, reprieve - Simon Armitage "Maundy Thursday"
Their might hearts swelling loved Luna to greet - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
That loves to run with storms - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Drown our love in that confusion - Atticus "Magic in Love"
In love with all the ways we were - Atticus "Magic in Love"
More love in a storm with you - Atticus "Magic in Love"
In the spinning blossom of your love - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
curated with loving precision - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Centuries in layers of abandoned love - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
Abandoned love kept whispering hope - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
And unite with your bitter love - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (2)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Falling in love with the sun - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
Small love effaced by a late disbelieving - Mary Jo Bang "Begin Here"
An undaunted love of lightning and live wire - Mary Jo Bang "Inconsequent Moment"
Into love's sweet looking glass - Mary Jo Bang "She Loved Falling"
Who had fallen in love with amnesia - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"
They can be said to love - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
Where love anxious waits - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
Love cold steel and powder - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited
A song of love and light divine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited
Any pickaxe disguised as love - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
Fashioned love from strangers - Jan Beatty "Drag"
Amid the beaming of love's stars - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "Dirge"
Loved the moon more than the cold sun - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
A lake which fell in love with a swan - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
An angel in love's vestment clad - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Love is an iron lord - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
My love holds while the earth endures - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Strange love for the living, strange love for the dead - Emily Berry "The End"
Love my lost convention - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"
Poised between love and grief - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Wading love's amber arpeggios - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"
That loves to dwell 'midst skulls and coffins - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Between nerve and the crime it loves - Tommye Blount "Lycanthropy"
Love's rich and trusting light - Edmund Blunden "The South-West Wind"
The winding paradise of old loves - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"
Every face you ever loved forget - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
For I have loved the cities of the sea - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
The friendly ghost that was your love and mind - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
A blighted winter bough where love and music used to be - Arna Bontemps "A Tree Design"
In this swirling meccano of empires and loves - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
A hymn to loving something so generous and good - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
The few loved left living - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"
Where wisdom ever laughed at love - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
Meticulous and serious love - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"
The grape of Love's deathless vine - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
With the fiery love of stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Love me in the lightest part - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Man's Requirements"
Love me with thy thinking soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Man's Requirements"
So lost in love's supremacy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Through love's eternity - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XIV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Fear to call it loving - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Woman's Shortcomings"
The leading star of love - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Sending love to distant towers - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Love fits the soul with wings - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIII. Celestial and Earthly Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
With love and with compassion brave - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"
Footbridges love the past - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
The warmest days of our love - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
With those I never succeeded to love - Julie Byrne "Sleepwalker"
Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Nor ruder love than mine be near - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Garment of a thousand loves - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
Love's richest music flowing - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall
So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Given for love and sold for utter anguish - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
Trembling with full love for Night - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
The bitter root of love - Jennifer Chang "Episteme 12"
So strange and frozen feels your love - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Love is larger than declaration - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Whom the heavens loved in vain - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
No love for this lonely quilt - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
See our love in the concentric ripples - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Trampled the tendrils of love in the ground - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Swallowing so much love - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"
So in love with mortals - Lucille Clifton "sorrows"
With Love in the flower of dawn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
A heart for loves to travel - Arthur Hugh Clough "Through a Glass Darkly"
Love itself flies after - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"
Where the breaking is for love - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"
The code of our frozen love - Leonard Cohen "Lullaby"
Burned the house I loved - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"
A riddle in the book of love - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Have wasted my blood in aimless love - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
Such balancing monsters of love - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"
To the axe of your love - Leonard Cohen "A Woman's Decision"
Where we call up love and family - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Infinite Love rules the heart of the storm - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The love of soul yields not to change of state - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
By love unknown attended - Benjamin Copeland "Christmas"
Love never clung to the nettle - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"
Love's arrows falling in the grass - Walter Crane "Love's Arrows"
Love not consumed in passion's heart - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The last knot that love could tie - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Love's a universe - e.e. cummings "nothing false and possible is love…"
the moved myriads wonderfully loved - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Though love be a day and life be nothing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
By loves first fantasies oppresssed - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
When love stands with such radiant wings - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
Loving with such a tender fear - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"
Her hurt was spindle to her love - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"
Love opened a mortal wound - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)
Counted all the ways love hurt me - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)
Where in to sing love's requiem - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
The plateau piles everything you love back into dust - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Love bade me follow in his chosen train - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Since in love only is set my happiness - Christine de Pisan "[Very God of Love, who art of lovers Lord]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The daggered edges of love - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Where dead loves are forgotten - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
A winter twilight in love's garden - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Loved to death, to damnation and God-death - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"
How much love can a desert drink - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
I might not love freedom at all - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
The little toil of love - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XXII"
the type of monster you used to love - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Love's pinnace overfraught - John Donne "Air and Angels"
All love of other sights controls - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Love's radiant avatar - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
Love's ancient fire - Ernest Christopher Dowson "In Tempore Senectutis"
Of names that were most to love - John Drinkwater "The Old Warrior"
And love shall now go desolate - John Drinkwater "Plough"
Love immortal leaped to flame - Louise Driscoll "Fireflies"
Red as first love's heart - Carol Ann Duffy "The Woman Who Shopped"
Decided love was possible - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Flock"
Thorns and love in the roses' bed - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"
Cruel Love by my pillow - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
A stainless spirit, born of Love undying - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Loves the dews of the starry night - Charles G. Eastman "The Yellow Corn"
With love in every running crest - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
My love reborn and burning - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"
By one who breathes with love - George Allan England "My Garden"
Whose garden was the loving heart - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"
My first love was silence - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Warp of sleep and woof of love - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"
Loved darkness with my needle-teeth - J. Federle "Possession of the Farmer's Son"
A beggar may be liberal of love - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"
Bask in the sunlight of a love so high - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Light of love and mercy shine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
Break them the bread of love and pour the wine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
The seven we loved, the six we lost - Katie Ford "Koi"
Know that love needs nurture - Mary Weston Fordham "For Who?"
Tell of love dead and unspoken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Something there is that doesn't love a wall - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"
To know the love of bare November days - Robert Frost "My November Guest"
The love of bare November days - Robert Frost "My November Guest"
Who loved the garden of the sea - Zona Gale "Return"
The love that I give the green - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
To discover love that lurks in sorrow's smart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton
Anchor me brave, anchor me loving - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"
Our hearts happy with love unexpressed - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Shall never have any fear of love - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Content with a vegetable love - W.S. Gilbert "Bunthorne's Song"
Love when it becomes a chore - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"
Kissed by the wild and loved by lightning - Nikita Gill "The Moon Goddess"
Love's best enchantment - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The love language of my grandmother's hands - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
In love with turbulence - Louise Gluck "Aboriginal Landscape"
Love with a finite mouth - Rae Gouirand "Dishes"
Cry to the stars that love rides by - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Sour disintegrations of Love's power - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"
Whispered love and muttered fears - Robert Graves "The Spoilsport"
And Love stands watching by the deep - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
Transparently in love with doom - Linda Gregerson "Spring Snow"
You said let's love like the lotus - Kimberly Grey "Reverie"
Loved to the end - Jennifer Grotz "Staring into the Sun"
With love's suspicion kindling - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Who loves our fairest joys to spoil - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Evening Star"
Sanctuary of love close guarded - Ivor Gurney "The Farm"
Your ways of varying love - Ivor Gurney "That County"
We wasted thoughts of love - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
Invaluable in love - Jin Ha "Surprise" (translated by the author)
Done what love demanded - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"
Winning Love's alchemic power - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Love's sweet share of selfishness - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
That may not guard the door that love itself unbarred - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Love at the end of the train line - Joy Harjo "Rainy Night"
Attempt to barter with love - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Loves the dews of spring - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
Love's austere and lonely offices - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
An abiding love for the abstract - Terrance Hayes "Mystic Bounce"
A capacity for love without forgiveness - Terrance Hayes "Snow for Wallace Stevens"
To bed me down among my love's hideouts - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"
A ring to store the memories of love - Seamus Heaney "Punishment"
And Love keeps sentry - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
The harp once loved by thine - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
For all he loved had room - Felicia Hemans "Epitaph on Mr W--, a Celebrated Mineralogist"
A turtle with love pushing from behind - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A little of love and a deathless song - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
My love's despairing cry filled hell with melody - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Eurydice"
Rising in the glow of Love's own fire - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
Dissolve in Love's soft flame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"
Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"
When nuclear testing began north of love - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Unprepared for love - Edward Hirsch "Denis Diderot"
In the corner seat of love - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"
Unencumbered by love of earth - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
And loves like Ruth's of old no end - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Victim's of old Enchantment's love or hate - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
With the love of my strained bones - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"
That smiled away their loving breath - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
As the tender love the strong - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"
The love hope nourished - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The First Watch: Tired"
The space love doesn't give us - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
The last besieged retreat of love - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
Love without resource or peace - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
With tears of love and longing - Lionel Johnson "Desideria"
Where love needs no speech - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
More than roses love the sun - Edward Smyth Jones "To Estelle"
Empathy loves the damaged - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Fountain of undescended love - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Over every awful kind of love - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"
Trained to love the blade - Courtney Kampa "Hunger"
Where the crazy love of a slope takes over - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"
Love in counterpoise to silver glitter - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
So capable of love - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Love at first remembrance - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
In love with your solitude - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Whiter still than Leda's love - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Half in love with easeful Death - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Love its withering sunshine lend - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
Love was melting our two souls - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"
Into crowds of the loved and hated - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
A kind of love always caught in the underworld - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 1"
Be mistaken for someone you once loved - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
Our love double-knotted, saddle-stitched - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"
Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
For Love forbids her death - Joyce Kilmer "In Memoriam: Florence Nightingale"
Love's rosary is ours - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Rosary"
The wounds of Love's consuming flame - Joyce Kilmer "St. Laurence"
Love's ancient magic run - Joyce Kilmer "Summer of Love"
Interrupted by falling in love - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
love is not a condition for safety - Eunsong Kim "Psalm"
Cash in for forever love - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
To represent the shapes required of love - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
With the salt of love in my eyes - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Choose to love the dawn - Christopher Kondrich "Asylum"
Awful love took flame - Louise Labe sonnet IV
And their hearts in love were bound - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Love is mightiest next to fate - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"
Loved of the roving moth - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
The catastrophe of your exaggerate love - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"
Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"
I come to confiscate your love - Katy Lederer "Love"
But everyone knows love is bankrupt - Katy Lederer "Love"
Learning to recognize what we love - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"
Sobs of love whose sound appalls - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Down the winding stair of love - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Crooning of love and of manifold things - Henry S. Leigh "Chivalry for the Cradle No. 2--A Legend of Banbury-Cross"
Love seeks no mortal approbation - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Flames in her love from the fires above - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
But Love came not - Amy Levy "A Cross-Road Epitaph"
Hungry for love and music - Amy Levy "Medea"
Love has been here before - Amy Levy "New Love, New Life"
And the flame of Love grow cold - Amy Levy "To Death"
My love was a jester on the rails - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Loves the juniper smell of gin - Rebecca Lindenberg "The Splendid Body"
A hawk that loves my shoulder - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
The lions and roses and lilies of love - Vachel Lindsay "For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines"
The azure bells of eternal love - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"
Love haunting your very name - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
Our radical love of breath in motion - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"
Unrelenting as the curse of love - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Spendthrift Love's false friends - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"
Your hour glass loves - Mina Loy "Poe"
Whom our English hearts have loved - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"
Gone to the Hades of dead loves - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Love of grey-blue distance - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"
Drunk with old wine of love - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"
My love in the light of steel - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
The King who loved the lilies - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"
This cup of golden love dream-deep - Jeannette Marks "Beside the Way"
That love must carry its burden - Jeannette Marks "Clear Pools"
With a great soul's deepest love - Jeannette Marks "His Name"
Voice of all lost love and agony - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"
In such a place, love met me once - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Love in the midst of rue - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
Love and I laughed down the fates - Don Marquis "Across the Night"
Love in the bonds of breath - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"
Vine-wreathed and vagabond Love - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Finds it hard to love an absence - Maya Marshall "Some Thoughts on Sons in the Winter of My Child-Bearing Years"
The incense of pure love - George Martin "Marguerite"
Before losing love against itself - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"
The great scourge of the great love - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Know love in the desperate abyss - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Along the hallowed paths of love - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
To that abysmal love outpoured - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
The phantom of absent loved ones - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"
Love's softly glowing spark - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
A love so fugitive and so complete - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
Of calm love and soulful snows - Claude McKay "To Winter"
Love glorious in his friendly might - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
The thorn of our red love - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
The draught that blest love sips - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
With tones of love - George Meredith "Melampus"
Could be loved for what costs us nothing - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
But it is winter with your love - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Alms"
Should have loved you presently - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet II from A Few Figs from Thistles
I do not love you Thursday - Edna St Vincent Millay "Thursday"
The fabric of my faithful love - Edna St Vincent Millay "To the Not Impossible Him"
Have repaid my love with guile - "The Misanthrope"
Without such devious love - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Shared Plight"
And love forget it not - "The Moon's Pale Ray"
I only want love to hold me for ransom - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
And tell me our love is remembered - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
With a throng of beauty, dreams and loves - William Moore "Expectancy"
Love's golden chain and burning vow - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
When love dispelled the clouds of care - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Our love past dust - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"
Stained the sun with blackened love - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A window where love weeps - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
From love's dark uncertain shore - Walter Dean Myers "Marcia Williams, 17, High School Senior"
Let me love that shine in you - Eileen Myles "for you"
Lost in my love's absence - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Love and anger and white-gold milk - Maggie Nelson "The World"
Gathered the flags of shattered love - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Rain on a day of love - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Formed by urgent love and geometry - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Seeds split off from love - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Propelled by your intrepid love - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Love has to earn his bread - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"
White palaces wrought for love - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Spent my love on worthless toys - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"
Since Love is a mirror we break - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
I have nightmares every time I fall in love - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
As my blue love reaches for what's left - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
What dissolves time more absolutely than love? - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
Discover our common love of bones - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"
Old love shall dwell with old delight - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"
The sun does not love - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]
Ineffable testimonies of the love that permeates existence - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
With an undivided heart I loved - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Lying on Love's ruin - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
The burden of love ungiven - Grace Fallow Norton "Oh, the Burden, the Burden of Love Ungiven"
None but Love will understand - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Though my love forget my name - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Lost love and lonely stars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
The gauge of our love's guilt - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: V. Doctor’s Wife"
The consequences of falling in love - Achy Obejas "Naiad"
All I want is boundless love - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
More room in your heart for love - Mary Oliver "Storage"
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Steals the light of Love's secret - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"
Love beyond created sight - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"
That ways of love are never new - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"
Cover with ashes our love's cold crater - Dorothy Parker "Nocturne"
From love's abysmal ether - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Canto I: Preludes III: The Poet's Confidence"
Teaching me how to love the world again - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
That hath loved his folly - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
Echoes of our buried love - Walter S. Percy "Grief and Joy"
The little words of love - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
Found two colors of love - Willie Perdomo "Poet in Harlem"
One bright, flashing hammer of love - Carl Phillips "Initial Descent"
Know nothing of east or west or love - Carl Phillips "Refrain"
No other way to tether love - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
If the border does not love us - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
For me to love among the flowers - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"
Love among the songs of birds - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"
Even love can be no shield - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
In love with last chances - D. A. Powell "The Imaginal State"
The shadows of love's dream - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Falls in love with those icy eyes of chaos - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
The golden chain of my love - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: The Tyrant and the Captive"
Transfigured in the golden mist of love - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"
You do not love like an albatross - Paige Quinones "Elegy Ending on the Ocean Floor"
Who love me to the marrow of my bones - Danni Quintos "Quintos"
Magnetize a compass of love - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"
Who live, and love, and dying make amends - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"
The way the blue jay loves the sparrow egg - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
Will love you through prize and peril - Jacques J. Rancourt "Mt. Diablo"
Love's wedded tidal song - Theodore H. Rand "Annapolis Basin"
But rather truth for love's own sake - Theodore H. Rand "Conduct"
The news of light and love - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
Makes willing answer to Love's call - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
What harvest comes from love - Molly Raynor "Labor"
anger is love divided into long sleeps - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
Too sick in their love to notice - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
Though this widowed heart may love another - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Mock not love so deeply hearted - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Anger and fear rotating on an axle of love - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
Little hatreds and chiming loves - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The love of her lyric body - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
And loved you for what they are not - Lola Ridge "Mother"
In fealty to love's enduring ties - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"
Love's white hand upon my wrist - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
The colors of all the saddest love songs - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"
For love's obliterations of the crowd - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
Old record of loves and tears - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
This was the end love made - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Never thought that love had such an end - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
For every need of my love's craving - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
Where love's sweet offerings fall - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
Should be love's best interpreter - Alice Wellington Rollins "If I Could Know, Love"
The rose of love bewilderingly sweet - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Rose"
Love of finished years - Christina Rossetti "Echo"
Three sang of love together - Christina Rossetti "A Triad"
Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Meantime his love maintains my life - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
In the love that gives us ourselves - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Love gone down with song - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Love sold me for a single fault - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry
Love is for vanishing - Rumi "Someone Digging in the Ground" transl. by Coleman Barks
Stray gleams of love and truth - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Love and hate braided in mutual need - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
That drinks the river of my love - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Leave me a little love - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg "Theme in Yellow"
The fine cloth of your love - Carl Sandburg "They Buy with an Eye to Looks"
Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"
But love can gather the sweetest honey - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Young love and broken life - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
An unknown love enchants our solitude - George Santayana "Premonition"
A garden of all we've loved - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Let love be silent - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Till valor and love be no more - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
The hummingbird loves you - Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage "Petunia Blossoms"
Washed their faces clean of love - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
Love at the core of the universe - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Harbours wrought by love - Frederick George Scott "To My Wife"
Posting missives of hidden love for strangers - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"
Loved me at arms' length - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
The kind of love that lands like a leaf - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Only in this hoarded span will love persevere - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"
But unrequited love can make an avalanche - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
The perfect ceremony of love's rite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"
Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"
Such civil war is in my love and hate - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXV"
Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
Entertain the time with thoughts of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"
In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"
Imperial light wakes love to life - "She Sits Alone" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Soon lost for new love - Anonymous "The Shepherds Farewell"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Lured by all the love untold - Frank Dempster Sherman "The Song"
Voice I loved beyond the storm - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"
He dearly loves the broken heart - Mary Dana Shindler "The Bended Knee"
Bound me with the cords of love - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"
With the richest love he feeds me - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"
Cats sneered at our pathetic need for feline love - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Buy my love a sword of steel - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The deep scars of love - David Shumate "Passing Through a Small Town"
Love scarlet adore pink thrive on orange - Joyce Sidman "Ultraviolet"
Lost to memory, love, and fame - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Love always wakes the dragon - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"
With love screaming - Charles Simic "The Infinite"
Love and fate crossed out - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"
Of love tending toward catastrophe - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
The old complaint of love and dollars - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
And love was a binary star - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
Which Pygmalion made and loved - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Where love shall be complete - Effie Smith "Thanksgiving"
A sea of loving phrases - Hope Anita Smith "Words"
Where my dreaming and my loving live - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Listen to the love calls of wild geese - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Love has a hundred gentle ends - Leonora Speyer "Two Passionate Ones Part"
With love's leisurely vanished pace - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"
The laws and trysts of love and gravity - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"
Love's taper grew more bright - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
And love offended lights a fire - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Sorrow and Art made Love - George Sterling "A Character"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
As love by silence hid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
Is bitter with our love's delay - George Sterling "Until Thou Comest"
The more blurred our love was - Gerald Stern "Hearts"
Ripening in love's golden grace - William W. Story "The Violet"
And love was sold upon your lips - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
In love with a meager stipend - Su Tung-p'o "New Year's Eve" transl. by Burton Watson
That forces Love himself to dance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Who loved the lord of music - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
Each change of love in eyelids and eyebrows - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
Lost with her love in the underworld - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Though love in your heart were brittle - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Love which promised truth - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
Faith responds to love's regret - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
Mother of loves and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
And win the love of ages after - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
And claim to love the wind and winter - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"
Eyes that love you - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
That Love may starve - Sara Teasdale "Over the Roofs"
Quiet at the heart of love - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Love will still be a hungry disciple - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
To glow in hymns of love - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"
Had loved your distant voice - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Love which thus hallows the ground - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Spendthrift of passion in love's bankruptcy - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"
Wreathing love with poppies and with ashes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
What grief of love had he to stifle - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
Sisters linked in love and light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
That rivetted life with love - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
As if love could be contained in glass - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The ghost of love conjured as fruit - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Reached the haven of love's wayward tide - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Open to the love of fire - Nadia Tueni [Untitled] transl. by Carol Cosman
Love and the brine of the north wind - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Photos from yesterday's love affair - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
In secret for loving the spring - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
In the visible flame of my love - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
Love, trampling and invincible - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"
a love stripping itself bare - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
With love that tastes like starving to death - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
How long the echoes love to play - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
Happier in the loss of love - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"
The heart puts love above it all - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"
To have loved one horizon - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"
Kills everything but Love - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"
Threw sweet love upon the winds - Charles William Wallace "The Lone Wayside Wild Rose"
Baffled by death and love - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward "The Room's Width"
True faith in what love yields - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"
The strands of hunger, death, and love - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Shall sorrow for my love - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
As the twilight loves the dark - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
As the water loves the sea - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
Touched to love this heart - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Fallen from your faultless love - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
What token of your lone love - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
The old sorrow we loved before - John Hall Wheelock "Sorrowful Freedom"
A false love and a dismantled heart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
Then in love set each one free - Myra Viola Wilds "Thoughts"
Will meet and love again - Emma Lowrey Williams "Life"
Stood and loved you while you slept - Miller Williams "A Poem for Emily"
Always at some new loving treason - William Carlos Williams "The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven"
What is denied to love - William Carlos Williams "The Descent"
The swoon of love that soars in fire to fall - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"
My candle died with love - Humbert Wolfe "Pierrot"
A moment spent with love - Humbert Wolfe "The Trembling Brim"
The sap that love distills to joy - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"
With love in silence shrined - Adolf Wolff "To a Friend"
Deeper zeal of holier love - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Love, faithful love - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"
Standing on love's complementary estate - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Love's heavy open door - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
Such a night as witches love - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
The waning of love has beset us - W.B. Yeats "The Falling of the Leaves"
Drowning love's lonely hour - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
Hid in the heart of love - W.B. Yeats "The Pity of Love"
Who loves a life among fig roots - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
This hush love creates - C. Dale Young "Hush"
Write unsigned love letters - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"
Love and time, eternal enemies - Adam Zagajewski "Epithalamium"
To swim in the middle of love - Javier Zamora "Vows"
With ordinary loves and concerns - Matthew Zapruder "Yellowtail"
After a little of what true misery loves - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
By years of unremitting love - Rachel Zucker "Paying Down the Debt: Happiness"
A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"
That carved these love knots - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Our bodices with love-knots laced - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Broken love-knots, quaintly curled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
Soothing her love-laden soul - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
The loveless, hearthless arctic night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Descends into the loveless dust - W.B. Yeats "From the 'Antigone'"
A love-lorn nightingale among owls - Rumi "Thou Didst Go to the Rose-Garden" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
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A cursed bouquet of love-me-nots - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata: On Faith"
Poison in meal most lovingly made - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
So lovingly made with iron fire - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Unloved in the hourglass of dust - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Ruth and Matthew Mead
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