Potential Titles: Love
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Love is writ in water - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
i 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"
Love is writ in water - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
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"
Or touch the tears unwept of bitter love - William Allingham "The Lover and Birds"
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"
With melancholy eyes turned toward her love - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
They can be said to love - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
The weeping face of love touched in the dark - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
Reclining love will make the heavens dance - Natalie Clifford Barney "A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918"
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"
A place for shattered loves and broken hearts - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That love us enough to break this language lengthwise - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"
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)"
Relief from the flawed light of love and grief - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
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"
Those with shrunken hearts still trying to love - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Desire for love, the one that costs everything - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
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"
Send me songs so I may listen to love - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
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"
Once a brier loved a rose, at her feet adoring - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
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]
Friendship, which love's loud emotions becalms - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
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"
Who eats the lotos-flower of Love with tears - Millie W. Carpenter "A Winter Reverie" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
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"
I do not love the east wind - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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"
The fruit of love traversed by doubt - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Brought me love and going, left me woe - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
For love out the door of hope - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Has turned his children's love away - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
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]
With forced and fearful love approach - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
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"
Mellow with old loves that used to burn - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
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"
Loves the silvery moon and sings to it at night - Edith Dunham "Our Little Brook" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Let all the song-birds die of love - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
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"
When light and love within her eyes were one - George Eliot "Self and Life"
I knew, not love, the law - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Shall prove life is justified by love - George Eliot "Self and Life"
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"
Whate'er we prize of love and worth - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
What Love would have me not forget - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
Warp of sleep and woof of love - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"
Love's dart lurks in my heart too - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
The moment after his duel for another's love - Vievee Francis "The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears"
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"
Of love let's have no more to say - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]
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"
Loving sticks a widget into the machinery of doubt - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
I do wonder how to love without dissolving - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
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"
Each love defines its proper obstacles - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
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"
The air breathed rapture, and love, and youth - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]
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)
Scarlet still with love and certain doom - Katherine Hale " CalvÉ in Blue"
The whole of love's rich feast - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
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"
Love as thou art worthy to be loved - Harriet "Lines to -- [O could I love thee, love as though art worthy]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.444, 3 July 1852]
the way that soap loves an airborne virus - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
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"
Of Love caught from the springing sod - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Who loves free advice to extend - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
Wafting scented wreaths of love - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: May"
A call above the spell of love, a crying and a need - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"
Didst love me for imagined fame - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
My love but breathed upon the glass - F.A. Hillard "Two Mirrors" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.85, Jan. 1875]
When nuclear testing began north of love - Brenda Hillman "1951"
On which hungry flames love to dine - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"
Love is a tower, a trance, a medieval pit - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
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"
When you poured your love like molten flame - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Drunk for ever with liquor, love, or fights - A.E. Housman "Last Poems X"
Hearts that loved me not again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIII"
For lovers should be loved again - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad X: March"
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"
To break the links of love which bound her - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Since Love and I collided at the curve - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Who mothered your love of death? - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
The loving geometry that sketched your bones - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Only at a distance can it be loved - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
Love and regret would travel too - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
The space love doesn't give us - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
I love what I see on the other side of myself - Jzl Jmz "Drenched in Reflection"
Crooning love songs to your banjo - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
I'm still bandaged from your last love - Saeed Jones "Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe's Dog in Beloved"
Empathy loves the damaged - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Love and laughter song-confessed - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXV"
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"
Hearts, by other loves supplanted - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
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"
Our loves on altars we had burned - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Ghosts of Revellers"
Light my love's eyes to read my soul - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "God-Made"
A heart that loves beyond the shallow word - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
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"
That my love can dawn in warmth again, unafraid - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
The afternoon is full of dreams, my love - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"
The catastrophe of your exaggerate love - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Your love was dark and thorough - D.H. Lawrence "Last Words to Miriam"
Poured with tender love her healing Lethe-balm - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
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"
To still expect our devotion after creating love - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
Sometimes someone you love just falls through - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
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"
That strange kingdom where no love may trace - James Allan Mackereth "The Return"
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"
Hearing everything I loved vanish in a dark and icy wind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor - Cate Marvin "Scenes from the Battle of Us"
Rather become infinite than fall in love - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
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"
Unless love is a political tool - Yesenia Montilla "High Stakes"
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"
After I fumble another conversation about love - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
To remind myself that all love poems are about the future - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
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"
Only blind love can make us see - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
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"
That loved herb which best in Cuba grows - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
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"
First step to ruin was a love of dice - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
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"
Love translated you across an ocean - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]
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]"
Encircled thus by those you love - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
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]
Chiefly because I'd rather love my equals - Adrienne Rich "Apology"
Anger and fear rotating on an axle of love - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
The slanting fields which I love but cannot save - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"
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"
Venturing together on a tale of love - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
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"
The Frog that loved the Changing Star - Sir Ronald Ross "The Frog, the Fairy, and the Moon: Dedicated to Lovers"
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"
Though the dream of love may tire - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"
Is love less kindred with the skies - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Love and hate braided in mutual need - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
How far his endless love had grown - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
And cloud the golden harvesting of love - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
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"
They loved only the beginnings - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Love the slip and grip of an unfamiliar pen - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
The kind of love that lands like a leaf - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Those he loved have been carried down the river of fire - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"
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"
learning love one utterance at a time - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
the world will not end if i love who i love - ire'ne lara silva "machetona"
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"
What is dull Time in true love's estimation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
Call on the children by each loved name - James Stephens "The Cherry Tree"
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"
From Love's ashes to re-dream the flower - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
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"
Sweetly keeping me under Love's command - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
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"
And act as if the world loved only me - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Whose love is tangled hard with hate - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXI: Soul and Body"
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"
His service is prized as treason is loved - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
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"
Are crushed to reach love's violets of song - Maurice Thompson "Sonnet [I saw a garden-bed on which there grew]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
I bore dead Love unto his grave - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]
How bitter-sweet and tyrant-slave is love - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XII"
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"
Loved by him whom Scotland loves - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
For love to earth not granted - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
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"
My vassal love shall serve the Past - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
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"
In this flash of living fire, the flame of love is caught - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"
To rake over the dead ashes of a burnt out love - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"
Caught the eye of this vagabond of love - Rudolph Valentino "Love Child (To B.)"
That blows symphonies on wings of love - Rudolph Valentino "Powerless"
Where love kindling desire worships unafraid - Rudolph Valentino "You"
How long the echoes love to play - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
And silent witness give that love shall last - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
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"
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Fit his tongue to dialogues of business, love, or strife - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
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'"
Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]
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"
The love-song of white water-lilies singing to the moon - Li Po "Troubled Waters" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Poison in meal most lovingly made - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
Always indestructible and lovingly arranged - Emperor Chien Lung "The Garden that Does Not Fade" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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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Love is writ in water - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
i 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"
Love is writ in water - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
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"
Or touch the tears unwept of bitter love - William Allingham "The Lover and Birds"
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"
With melancholy eyes turned toward her love - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
They can be said to love - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
The weeping face of love touched in the dark - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
Reclining love will make the heavens dance - Natalie Clifford Barney "A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918"
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"
A place for shattered loves and broken hearts - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That love us enough to break this language lengthwise - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"
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)"
Relief from the flawed light of love and grief - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
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"
Those with shrunken hearts still trying to love - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Desire for love, the one that costs everything - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
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"
Send me songs so I may listen to love - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
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"
Once a brier loved a rose, at her feet adoring - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
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]
Friendship, which love's loud emotions becalms - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
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"
Who eats the lotos-flower of Love with tears - Millie W. Carpenter "A Winter Reverie" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
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"
I do not love the east wind - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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"
The fruit of love traversed by doubt - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Brought me love and going, left me woe - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
For love out the door of hope - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Has turned his children's love away - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
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]
With forced and fearful love approach - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
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"
Mellow with old loves that used to burn - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
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"
Loves the silvery moon and sings to it at night - Edith Dunham "Our Little Brook" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Let all the song-birds die of love - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
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"
When light and love within her eyes were one - George Eliot "Self and Life"
I knew, not love, the law - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Shall prove life is justified by love - George Eliot "Self and Life"
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"
Whate'er we prize of love and worth - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
What Love would have me not forget - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
Warp of sleep and woof of love - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"
Love's dart lurks in my heart too - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
The moment after his duel for another's love - Vievee Francis "The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears"
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"
Of love let's have no more to say - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]
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"
Loving sticks a widget into the machinery of doubt - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
I do wonder how to love without dissolving - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
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"
Each love defines its proper obstacles - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
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"
The air breathed rapture, and love, and youth - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]
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)
Scarlet still with love and certain doom - Katherine Hale " CalvÉ in Blue"
The whole of love's rich feast - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
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"
Love as thou art worthy to be loved - Harriet "Lines to -- [O could I love thee, love as though art worthy]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.444, 3 July 1852]
the way that soap loves an airborne virus - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
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"
Of Love caught from the springing sod - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Who loves free advice to extend - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
Wafting scented wreaths of love - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: May"
A call above the spell of love, a crying and a need - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"
Didst love me for imagined fame - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
My love but breathed upon the glass - F.A. Hillard "Two Mirrors" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.85, Jan. 1875]
When nuclear testing began north of love - Brenda Hillman "1951"
On which hungry flames love to dine - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"
Love is a tower, a trance, a medieval pit - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
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"
When you poured your love like molten flame - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Drunk for ever with liquor, love, or fights - A.E. Housman "Last Poems X"
Hearts that loved me not again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIII"
For lovers should be loved again - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad X: March"
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"
To break the links of love which bound her - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Since Love and I collided at the curve - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Who mothered your love of death? - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
The loving geometry that sketched your bones - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Only at a distance can it be loved - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
Love and regret would travel too - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
The space love doesn't give us - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
I love what I see on the other side of myself - Jzl Jmz "Drenched in Reflection"
Crooning love songs to your banjo - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
I'm still bandaged from your last love - Saeed Jones "Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe's Dog in Beloved"
Empathy loves the damaged - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Love and laughter song-confessed - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXV"
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"
Hearts, by other loves supplanted - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
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"
Our loves on altars we had burned - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Ghosts of Revellers"
Light my love's eyes to read my soul - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "God-Made"
A heart that loves beyond the shallow word - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
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"
That my love can dawn in warmth again, unafraid - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
The afternoon is full of dreams, my love - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"
The catastrophe of your exaggerate love - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Your love was dark and thorough - D.H. Lawrence "Last Words to Miriam"
Poured with tender love her healing Lethe-balm - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
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"
To still expect our devotion after creating love - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
Sometimes someone you love just falls through - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
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"
That strange kingdom where no love may trace - James Allan Mackereth "The Return"
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"
Hearing everything I loved vanish in a dark and icy wind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor - Cate Marvin "Scenes from the Battle of Us"
Rather become infinite than fall in love - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
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"
Unless love is a political tool - Yesenia Montilla "High Stakes"
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"
After I fumble another conversation about love - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
To remind myself that all love poems are about the future - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
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"
Only blind love can make us see - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
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"
That loved herb which best in Cuba grows - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
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"
First step to ruin was a love of dice - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
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"
Love translated you across an ocean - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]
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]"
Encircled thus by those you love - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
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]
Chiefly because I'd rather love my equals - Adrienne Rich "Apology"
Anger and fear rotating on an axle of love - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
The slanting fields which I love but cannot save - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"
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"
Venturing together on a tale of love - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
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"
The Frog that loved the Changing Star - Sir Ronald Ross "The Frog, the Fairy, and the Moon: Dedicated to Lovers"
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"
Though the dream of love may tire - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"
Is love less kindred with the skies - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Love and hate braided in mutual need - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
How far his endless love had grown - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
And cloud the golden harvesting of love - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
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"
They loved only the beginnings - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Love the slip and grip of an unfamiliar pen - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
The kind of love that lands like a leaf - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Those he loved have been carried down the river of fire - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"
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"
learning love one utterance at a time - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
the world will not end if i love who i love - ire'ne lara silva "machetona"
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"
What is dull Time in true love's estimation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
Call on the children by each loved name - James Stephens "The Cherry Tree"
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"
From Love's ashes to re-dream the flower - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
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"
Sweetly keeping me under Love's command - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
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"
And act as if the world loved only me - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Whose love is tangled hard with hate - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXI: Soul and Body"
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"
His service is prized as treason is loved - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
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"
Are crushed to reach love's violets of song - Maurice Thompson "Sonnet [I saw a garden-bed on which there grew]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
I bore dead Love unto his grave - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]
How bitter-sweet and tyrant-slave is love - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XII"
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"
Loved by him whom Scotland loves - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
For love to earth not granted - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
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"
My vassal love shall serve the Past - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
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"
In this flash of living fire, the flame of love is caught - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"
To rake over the dead ashes of a burnt out love - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"
Caught the eye of this vagabond of love - Rudolph Valentino "Love Child (To B.)"
That blows symphonies on wings of love - Rudolph Valentino "Powerless"
Where love kindling desire worships unafraid - Rudolph Valentino "You"
How long the echoes love to play - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
And silent witness give that love shall last - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
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"
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Fit his tongue to dialogues of business, love, or strife - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
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'"
Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]
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"
The love-song of white water-lilies singing to the moon - Li Po "Troubled Waters" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Poison in meal most lovingly made - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
Always indestructible and lovingly arranged - Emperor Chien Lung "The Garden that Does Not Fade" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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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