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The thirst that ached in his shriveled cells - Mike Allen "Deluge"

His wings ache from so much wax - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"

Tender rain for aching hills - Charles Ashleigh "Beyond Good and Evil" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

And the fig tree will ache with sweetness - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"

Our aches sing beyond joints and stethoscopes - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"

Sprouting on acres of aching centuries - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

The ache of your sincerity - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"

Nor let the aching heart pursue - Francis Ernest Bradley "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.25-v.1, 21 June 1884]

Mindful of time and aching, decaying things - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"

Surveys with aching heart - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Heart-Throbs"

Yet feel no aching void - C.S. Calverley "Contentment"

Half in misery's aching void - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

That has forgot to ache - Willa Cather "Grandmither, Think Not I Forget"

Whose aching cries trouble the heart to tears - Ralph Chaplin "Distances"

With aching bones and heavy head - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

spared us the ache of truth - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"

Through which to conquer ache and pain - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

And always my eyes ached for the light - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Damp with the wicking of latent ache - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

Storm-swept aches and woes - Jean de Esque "When I Am Gone"

Full of aches and tears and sighs - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

engineering an unfamiliar ache - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

The dreams the aching heart forgets - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Horror's aching stare - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"

Aches with all the hawthorn blossom - F.S. Flint "Lunch"

No garland for this aching head - "Frangipanni"

The rattle of your aching heart - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"

Although their edges leave your throat aching - Theodora Goss "Diamonds and Toads"

To ache and be wise for it - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"

Frost's long ache afflicting every mortal nation - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

Strengthened by the ache of winter - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

And honest hearts were aching - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

The silver ache of a snowstorm - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

The difference when the weather aches - francine j. harris "from the bottom"

Anticipates angst & oddly angled aches - Yona Harvey "'I worked hard so my girls didn't have to serve nobody else like I did except God'"

Aches like an open book - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"

The aching earth has no more worth than this - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

Necessary ache of creative violence - Edward Hirsch "Paul Valery"

That my heart may cease to ache - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: A Tribute"

I go in the throbbing pulse of aching space - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Shadows so blinding I ache - Jess Hyslop "After"

A model held against aching nostalgia - Geoffrey Jacques "The Problem of Speech Genres"

Solitary griefs, desolate passions, aching hours - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"

From the same aching blood - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Like flowers ache for spring - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Ate leaves until your jaw ached with ash - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

That ache and echo of planets - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

If I hold my breath till it aches - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"

Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

The ache of amazement under summer stars - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Comfort for an aching mood - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

Numb with a bitter, deathly ache - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"

Which filled and built an ache in our lungs - Thomas Lux "Haystack of Needles"

My aching eyes were filled with tears - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

Grown in this body of aches and time - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

The ache of any obvious - Dawn Lundy Martin "Nothingness"

Sleep for aching eyes - John Masefield "The West Wind"

Proving the human heart has always ached - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

Never feel it aching in your bones - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Time's onward stream may flow before the aching light - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Though this wild brain is aching - Dugald Moore "Weep Not"

Every ache you've earned - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"

Endurance break for aching need - Francis Neilson "Oh, Tranquil Night"

The sweet ache of crab still bright - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

The stricken air still aches - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Neglected Harp"

Till sight and hearing ache - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"

That speech toward which all hearts do ache - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

History's four-thousand-year stomach ache - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Ache with the chill of dawn water - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Till the weaver's fingers ache - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

My aching spirit to the yoke of truth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"

With heart-strings aching to breathe - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The bleak glare aching over all - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Exile hearts that homeward ache - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Atlantic Cable"

Shattered the aching aisles of solitude - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

I'll count the aches another time - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

Fifty with aching hearts - Carl Sandburg "Gone"

The aching gleam and the hush of dream - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Below his aching sunrise, his moody, disappointed sunset - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

My siren's call to the vast and aching wild - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

Though ache and exhaustion wrapped me - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

Carry my pack of aches and stings - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"

Quieter sky, aching with isolation absolute - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

A ragged ache of light sifts through - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Should ache with praise - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"

Aches now as then - Sara Teasdale "The Unchanging"

Ash aching to be reminded - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"

Ache toward the tide - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

Soothe the soul with sorrow aching - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]

In its fiercest aching know - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

For the ache your absence leaves - William Watson "The Empty Nest"

Bare the bough with aching chill - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

That never aches when I tell the truth - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"


Heartache.


A tooth-ache in each spoonful - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles I"

The toothache of tragedy - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"


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