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And tend our agonizing seeds - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"

Tremulous beliefs, agonized hopes, and ashen flowers - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"

Whose plot unfolding agoniz'd the world - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"


Will but augment my agonies - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Died without a windy agony - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Her chorus of mouths howled in agony - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

The agony bequeathed to you - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"

An agony too keen for reason - Elizabeth Bartlett "Voluntary, Exile"

Shadow's agony song - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

Agonies that end in laughter - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"

Floats back dishevelled strength in agony - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Recognition"

Test of all sumless agonies - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

To invent new luxuries of agony - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

These lone portals of agony and affirmation - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

He built an empire of agony - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Every insect was a chalk outline of agony - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

The cup of strength in some great agony - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

After the agony in stony places - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

Blessed she who may tell her agony - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Interstellar agonies of midnight - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

What agonies of knowledge - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"

An upward agony of undefined desires - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

In the sea of agony - Kim Unsong "Dharmas"

With all that bitter agony of soul - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Every agony my heart has known - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Life's Burying-Ground"

Beneath the weight of agonies remembered - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

The agonies of splendid dreams - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"

And gnash their teeth in agony - Nancy Luce "God's Words"

Grinding agony to foam - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"

Voice of all lost love and agony - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"

Where agony's bows interlace - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Brought agonies of hoping to a stop - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Strange agonies make quiet lodgment there - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Diligent neighbor to my unnamed agonies - Rachel McKibbens "Mentor"

Flicker of agony, scarlet against the ego - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"

Next to the substances of agony - Pablo Neruda "Brussels" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Not seeing the stone in agony - Pablo Neruda "The Celestial Poets [Canto General]" transl. by Martin Espada

Banquet of silver and agony - Pablo Neruda "Treason" transl. by Miguel Algarin

Naked agony that first woke the soul - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

Breaks with the agony of surprise - Joyce Carol Oates "The Dark"

His silent chamber eloquent with his agony - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Timeless agony of the white fire - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Agony where valor bleeds - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"

An agony of longing to dream again - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The compassion that those who see themselves in agony feel - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

More quick to cry its agony - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Agony lights up the darkness - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"

An agony past all correction - A.E. Stallings "Dead Language Lesson"

Agonies of iron and stone - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

The agony of the world will fragment me - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"


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