Potential Titles: Anguish

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Lifted weights of anguish - Yehuda Amichai "God Full of Mercy" (translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav)

The anguish of stones and mountains - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "Cry, Wind" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Anguish choked with cotton - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Out of nocturnal anguish into dawn - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

A wordless sound of birth and anguish struggling - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

My steep track of anguish and tears - Vera M. Brittain "A Parting Word"

A monument of anguish - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Half-taught in anguish - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"

Given for love and sold for utter anguish - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"

One more sign for anguish poured - CAConrad "Saturn.1"

in trembling thirds of anguish quivers - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

All the anguish borne in secret - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

And suffer me in anguish to depart - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The eyes of anguish-stricken Cassiopeia - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Knew the anguish of the marrow - T.S. Eliot "Whispers of Immortality"

Question them in anguish - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Repaired through your anguish - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

The heart's deep anguished grave - Mary Weston Fordham "A Reverie"

Anguished immersion in radiance - Edward Hirsch "Paul Valery"

An anguish of evening gold - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Lest anguish tear my dreams - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Let Me Not Lose My Dream"

Drinks anguish without ruling it bitter - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"

Tender soul with anguish torn - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Not a single anguished cry of it remains - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Drown the wakeful anguish of the soul - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

In an anguish of dark planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)

Anguish rushing downriver - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"

How joy and anguish intertwine - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"

The last black anguish of the thief - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"

Should I outlive this anguish - Edna St Vincent Millay "Well, I Have Lost You"

A talisman to ward off anguish - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

Anguish like the mourning heart - Francis Neilson "Absence"

The poison routine of the anguished - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The father of grief or the guest of eternal anguish - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Drinking from an anguished chalice - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

The soldier's cup of anguish, blood, and gall - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Dead II. Boy"

Whose seeds, in tear and anguish sown - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Confronts the storm with anguished heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Such tears of anguish now she sheds - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

My voice in anguish calls - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

With slight anguish mitigate much wo [sic] - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

An anguished prayer from the deeps - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"

Hand in hand with anguish - Rumi "Sorrow Quenched in the Beloved" transl. by E.H. Whinfield

Two hands clasped in anguish - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Alone with anguish and the dark - George Sterling "The Golden Past"

With anguish for a wreath - Algernon Swinburne "Aperotos Eros"

Beads of anguish on the furrowed brow - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"

Had drawn that anguish to my arms - John Hall Wheelock "Starless Morning"

Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

A tear for keener anguish shed - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Or sink where anguish dwells - Helen Maria Williams "To Sensibility"

Whose fruits all anguish mend - William Carlos Williams "The Uses of Poetry"

In the anguish of the mortal hour - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


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