Potential Titles: Pain
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somethingdarkerBegins with pain as a mirror - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"
Doubting between joy and pain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
To sweep aside the solid rocks of pain - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Crying its separate pain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
With strong yearning and passionate pain - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
His pain inside immaculate lines - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
These thaumaturgies schemed in pain - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
The very pain of silence absolute - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
To brave the pain of spring - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"
This tight mask of pain - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
More alive in the pain - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Cursing the fence of pain - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"
Pain through all her zones - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Whose thoughts were mad in painful May - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
That breaking wave of pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
And know there was an end to pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
Built my house with Pain for wall - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
Path of pain of prayer - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
A gift of pain disguised - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
Pain's derisive hand had given me rest - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
Has conquered dragons of old pain - Louise Morey Bowman "A Portrait"
But Dionysus led them home in a chariot of pain - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rye Bread" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Nothing else for pain to feast upon - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"
I am the river of pain - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Songs of the Spavinaw"
Balm to all my frenzied pain - Emily Bronte "Hope"
True gods sigh for the cost and pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Not the fruit of pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
A seat for pain to rest in - Sue Budin "Healing with Shadows"
Full of strange bacteria, indifferent to your pain - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
The imps of pain and care - W. Wilfred Campbell "Her Look"
As if pain teaches truth - Rafael Campo "California"
And the deadly pain of alteration - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
The old, deep-travelled road from pain - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
To glut a glory wrought of pain - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Stories too painful to be told twice - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Whistled like dragons and sobbed with pain - Ch'iu Chin "To the Tune 'The River Is Red'" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
With sharpened pain and wasting sobs - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Wring their wealth from woe and pain - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
All the earnings of their pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Ah! Yet Consider It Again!"
No painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Despondency Rebuked"
Thin joys, huge pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who wish to conquer pain - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"
Pain cannot compromise this light - Leonard Cohen "Hydra 1960"
In change of place a change of pain - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
In vain the weary, painful quest - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"
Knowing that each layer is a viscera of pain - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Through which to conquer ache and pain - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"
Wreath of sudden pain - Hart Crane "The Fernery"
Scant wine from grapes of pain - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"
A world insistent on your pain - Allison Pitinii Davis "The Function of Humor in the Neighborhood"
The pain of faiths discredited - Coningsby Dawson "A Brave Life"
And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Prey to pain and sorrow's sword - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
My heart is broken down with bitter pain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
In raging hours of pain and suffering - Geoffrey Dearmer "Keats"
Cleansed and purified by floods of pain - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Prayer"
Whose pain unraveled and broke you - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"
Think the pain is ours - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Left me boundaries of pain - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love II: Bequest"
Pain capacious as the sea - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love II: Bequest"
A shield around the pain - Helen Dimos "For One Dead"
The pain of restless music yearning - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
The exceeding profit of their pain - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
Immune to time and innocent of pain - Boris Dralyuk "The Minor Masters"
Arithmetic does not ease pain - Cheryl Dumesnil "A Million Silver Minnows"
Meet only when pain touches pain - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"
Truth we learn in pain and sighs - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Man to the Angel"
Into petals of pain - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"
The pains that to great life belong - George Eliot "How Lisa Loved the King"
House whose stairs are pain - George Allan England "Dante"
Lost his pain and weeps no more - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???
Barred from expression of my pain - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Too shattered by pain for tears - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"
And some shall cry with bitter pain - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
pain liquified & indelible - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Almost mad with the pain of his fall - "The Fox and the Geese"
Too ready to perceive joy's inmost heart of pain - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Pain from the cataract's breast - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "At the Leap of the Waters"
Long pain that turns us bitter cold - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"
Born in pain and danger - "Greeting to the New-Born Babe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Salt and sand sifted by pain - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Winnowed her harp of its least pain - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Exercise painful and lonely in the walks of death - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"
Forget the pains of yesterday - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Somewhat of the making's eager pain - Ivor Gurney "Song and Pain"
Mere pain the price of the returning - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"
Will triumph over the pains - Hadewijch of Brabant "My Best Success"
Turning pain into hummingbirds - Nathalie Handal "Ways of Rebelling"
Knocked at the door of its house of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
My heart lay still in the hand of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"
Or shelter from the whip of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Wings of pain that fly - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Their old grey gods of Pain - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
The pain which threshes joy - F.W. Harvey "To the Devil on His Appalling Decadence"
I keep going back for pain samples - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"
Nothing worse than a dull coat of pain - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"
That pays the long arrear of pain - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Now with grief and pain assailed - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Bringing a laudanum to my ceaseless pain - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Soothing"
Not even pain can guide it home - Tony Hoagland "A Walk Around the Property"
When pain has forced a footing there - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
I came in the blinding sweep of ecstatic pain - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"
To grant release from sickness, woe, and pain - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The afterimage of ancestral pain - Irene Inatty "Ours"
Pain is not the only lesson - Irene Inatty "Ours"
What profit from the violet's day of pain? - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"
For years of painful yesterdays - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
A colorful exterior of a painful past - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Pain is a difficult animal to domesticate - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Pain and joy of storm - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
The service of a living pain - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Through vigils of the painful night - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"
when I confess the pain - Camisha L. Jones "Intercession"
With wild regrets and silent pain - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Violets"
Pain often, stands by pleasures [sic] side - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
Lonely in that void even for pain - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
On shafts of yesterday's pains - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
Like a species of pain - Jane Kenyon "Father and Son"
Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
The trumpet's almost kissed by enough pain - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Speaking pain & joy - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
A pain-rutted road - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
Singing pain - Louise Labe sonnet XXI
Following with sorefooted pain - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
Purchased lips that kiss with pain - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Gathers the ends of joy and pain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
One fundamental chord of constant pain - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
That wrests the victory from pain - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"
Such pain as to reveal your hue - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
No friend to ease the heart's pain - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Complicate the pain - Philip Levine "Mad Day in March"
To rinse off the pain of nightmare - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Caught in the Circle of Pain - Amy Levy "Felo de Se"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Nor swerves for pain or rue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"
Not akin to pain - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"
Upon which pain will not falter - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"
The family that feasts on pain - Tariq Luthun "I Just Want Everyone to Understand"
Their little bites distracting you from harder pain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
By thy heart's prophetic pain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring in Nazareth"
High o'er the mists of pain and of despair - James Allan Mackereth "Hail and Farewell"
An illusion is truth untouched of pain - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
An insufferable point of pain dissolved - Harry Martinson "Aniara 65" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Into the chalice of your pain - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"
Plucked the sanguine flower of pain - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
Pain and sorrow woven - Theodore Maynard "To Any Saint"
The pain will always dream - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Patience and pain on the part of the scientist - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
A distance from either pain or patience - W.S. Merwin "Harm's Way"
Red is the strangest pain to bear - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
Molded in sorrow and sweetened by pain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Rain at the Mill"
Would recant vows made in pain - John Milton "Paradise Lost"
That weight us with keenest sorrow and longest pain - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
In the right light, even pain can sparkle - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"
Leave those vaults of pain and sorrow - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
Flooded dwellings and crevices of pain - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
The load of solitary pain - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Country of anonymous pains - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Like an ancient map of pain - Walter Dean Myers "Junice Lomax, 23, Unemployed"
The draughts of winter's pain - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"
Pains of the extinct homeland - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The statistics that pain still lacks - Pablo Neruda "The Watersong Ends" transl. by Alastair Reid
Grow old bones to eat pain - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
New gathered at the price of pain - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
The distraction of a sunrise and a pain remembered - Margaret Noodin "Concerning Distance" transl. by the author
Beyond the last horizon of your pain - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"
Thought pain had no tongue - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arabic"
Lines between our pain and earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"
Wrought out of the fires of anguish and pain - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
And charm the heart from pain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"
Even at pain's deafening intrusion - Grace Paley "Even"
Black as pain - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"
With sweet pain of richest world's desire - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
With heart-pain unforgot - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
To voice the pain of bliss - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"
Under the yoke of labour and of pain - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Through the empty chaos and pain - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"
Pain coiled in the drywall - Kiki Petrosino "Farm Book"
This pain breathing into any place that doesn't hurt - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
The law of pain - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Nightingale with her ecstatic pain transfixed - John Presland "The Deluge"
My brain whirled and grew dizzy with sudden pain - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Make bright music give forth a sound of pain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Parching in its fever pain - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Until my pain is upside down - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"
His fingers on fire and welded to pain - Charles Rafferty "Catena"
The scorpion tail of her voice speared its own pain - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Linked by what you think is pain - Paisley Rekdal "Vessels"
Foils for fencing with pain - Adrienne Rich "Victory"
Five-pierced with old pain - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Wore the rose of pain - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Or rob defeat of pain - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hour of Most Desire"
Went silent with my memory and my pain - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
Carrying impulse pain and self - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Joy that touches pain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
Nor tomb them in my hollow caves of pain - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Darkest anodyne against our pain - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"
In pain without knowing why - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"
With beads of pain upon his face - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
That strive to drown the voice of pain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"
When the Passion and the Pain their havoc have begun - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
From reeds that breathe in pain - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Maybe pain adds to the sea - Sandra Simonds "Lindos, Greece"
Pierced me through with immortal pain - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
With pain's leaping ember - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"
Profit of pain, joy by the weight of a word - Leonora Speyer "Measure Me, Sky!"
How the apple-boughs are twisted in their pain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
And Mars requites me for my pain - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"
Lamps in rooms of pain - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Considering the mystery of pain - George Sterling "Pride and Conscience"
Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"
Pain killing pain - Wallace Stevens "Esthetique du Mal"
Through sun and singing pain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sacrament"
No more shall I kennel with pain - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
The hint the sunset had of pain - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Wounded by a double pain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 148: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Wrecked hope and passionate pain - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Through the searing pain of the divine influx - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Will rustle under painful light - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
Darken beauty with your plots of pain - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta X: The Mirror-Cases II"
Undo the pain before you speak - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Whose wasted warmth but nurtures pain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Pain emerging from unexpected places - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
Oppression's long dark night of pain - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
What of pain among the dead - Eunice Tietjens "To Jake"
You plant the pain in my heart - John Todhunter "An Irish Love Song"
The ripples blown by pain - Jean Toomer "Face"
That vision tender, over all my loss and pain - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Those faces pain has marked - Iris Tree "London"
Pain has all the patience of a nun - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
And pain hath grown to power at length - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Stumbling with pain and fears - William Troy "Roads"
Beat with such bitter, restless pain - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
Ghosts of vanished joy and pain - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
The key that locks me from a world of pain - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Though given the same pain - Rosemarie Waldrop "Not a Description"
Our spirits of pain - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"
Triangles painted by pain - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
So versed in all the arts of pain - Edith Wharton "Alternative Epitaphs"
A glimpse of brightness, parting and pain - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"
And lingering pain of you - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Enough pain to set fires - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"
A space whose very size is pain - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"
Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Equal to their wishes and their pains - "The Whore"
Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]
That pain produces logic - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"
The pain scalding us toward each other - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
We were never ones to avoid pain - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"
Come to banish wracking pain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
Pain rides itself through - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"
A bright core to bitter black pain - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Broken glass, reflecting pain - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
To scrub away the silk threads of pain - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Music pushes back against pain - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Lean into the lightning shaft of pain - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"
The pain orbits around Jupiter - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
And mercy deals the pain-inflicting blow - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Quick and painlessly employed - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Too sweet painsong in passages of night - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 28"
Painsong for sorcerers - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"
A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
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Doubting between joy and pain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
To sweep aside the solid rocks of pain - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Crying its separate pain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
With strong yearning and passionate pain - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
His pain inside immaculate lines - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
These thaumaturgies schemed in pain - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
The very pain of silence absolute - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
To brave the pain of spring - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"
This tight mask of pain - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
More alive in the pain - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Cursing the fence of pain - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"
Pain through all her zones - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Whose thoughts were mad in painful May - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
That breaking wave of pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
And know there was an end to pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
Built my house with Pain for wall - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
Path of pain of prayer - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
A gift of pain disguised - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
Pain's derisive hand had given me rest - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
Has conquered dragons of old pain - Louise Morey Bowman "A Portrait"
But Dionysus led them home in a chariot of pain - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rye Bread" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Nothing else for pain to feast upon - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"
I am the river of pain - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Songs of the Spavinaw"
Balm to all my frenzied pain - Emily Bronte "Hope"
True gods sigh for the cost and pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Not the fruit of pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
A seat for pain to rest in - Sue Budin "Healing with Shadows"
Full of strange bacteria, indifferent to your pain - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
The imps of pain and care - W. Wilfred Campbell "Her Look"
As if pain teaches truth - Rafael Campo "California"
And the deadly pain of alteration - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
The old, deep-travelled road from pain - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
To glut a glory wrought of pain - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Stories too painful to be told twice - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Whistled like dragons and sobbed with pain - Ch'iu Chin "To the Tune 'The River Is Red'" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
With sharpened pain and wasting sobs - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Wring their wealth from woe and pain - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
All the earnings of their pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Ah! Yet Consider It Again!"
No painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Despondency Rebuked"
Thin joys, huge pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who wish to conquer pain - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"
Pain cannot compromise this light - Leonard Cohen "Hydra 1960"
In change of place a change of pain - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
In vain the weary, painful quest - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"
Knowing that each layer is a viscera of pain - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Through which to conquer ache and pain - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"
Wreath of sudden pain - Hart Crane "The Fernery"
Scant wine from grapes of pain - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"
A world insistent on your pain - Allison Pitinii Davis "The Function of Humor in the Neighborhood"
The pain of faiths discredited - Coningsby Dawson "A Brave Life"
And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Prey to pain and sorrow's sword - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
My heart is broken down with bitter pain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
In raging hours of pain and suffering - Geoffrey Dearmer "Keats"
Cleansed and purified by floods of pain - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Prayer"
Whose pain unraveled and broke you - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"
Think the pain is ours - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Left me boundaries of pain - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love II: Bequest"
Pain capacious as the sea - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love II: Bequest"
A shield around the pain - Helen Dimos "For One Dead"
The pain of restless music yearning - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
The exceeding profit of their pain - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
Immune to time and innocent of pain - Boris Dralyuk "The Minor Masters"
Arithmetic does not ease pain - Cheryl Dumesnil "A Million Silver Minnows"
Meet only when pain touches pain - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"
Truth we learn in pain and sighs - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Man to the Angel"
Into petals of pain - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"
The pains that to great life belong - George Eliot "How Lisa Loved the King"
House whose stairs are pain - George Allan England "Dante"
Lost his pain and weeps no more - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???
Barred from expression of my pain - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Too shattered by pain for tears - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"
And some shall cry with bitter pain - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
pain liquified & indelible - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Almost mad with the pain of his fall - "The Fox and the Geese"
Too ready to perceive joy's inmost heart of pain - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Pain from the cataract's breast - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "At the Leap of the Waters"
Long pain that turns us bitter cold - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"
Born in pain and danger - "Greeting to the New-Born Babe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Salt and sand sifted by pain - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Winnowed her harp of its least pain - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Exercise painful and lonely in the walks of death - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"
Forget the pains of yesterday - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Somewhat of the making's eager pain - Ivor Gurney "Song and Pain"
Mere pain the price of the returning - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"
Will triumph over the pains - Hadewijch of Brabant "My Best Success"
Turning pain into hummingbirds - Nathalie Handal "Ways of Rebelling"
Knocked at the door of its house of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
My heart lay still in the hand of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"
Or shelter from the whip of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Wings of pain that fly - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Their old grey gods of Pain - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
The pain which threshes joy - F.W. Harvey "To the Devil on His Appalling Decadence"
I keep going back for pain samples - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"
Nothing worse than a dull coat of pain - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"
That pays the long arrear of pain - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Now with grief and pain assailed - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Bringing a laudanum to my ceaseless pain - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Soothing"
Not even pain can guide it home - Tony Hoagland "A Walk Around the Property"
When pain has forced a footing there - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
I came in the blinding sweep of ecstatic pain - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"
To grant release from sickness, woe, and pain - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The afterimage of ancestral pain - Irene Inatty "Ours"
Pain is not the only lesson - Irene Inatty "Ours"
What profit from the violet's day of pain? - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"
For years of painful yesterdays - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
A colorful exterior of a painful past - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Pain is a difficult animal to domesticate - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Pain and joy of storm - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
The service of a living pain - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Through vigils of the painful night - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"
when I confess the pain - Camisha L. Jones "Intercession"
With wild regrets and silent pain - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Violets"
Pain often, stands by pleasures [sic] side - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
Lonely in that void even for pain - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
On shafts of yesterday's pains - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
Like a species of pain - Jane Kenyon "Father and Son"
Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
The trumpet's almost kissed by enough pain - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Speaking pain & joy - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
A pain-rutted road - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
Singing pain - Louise Labe sonnet XXI
Following with sorefooted pain - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
Purchased lips that kiss with pain - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Gathers the ends of joy and pain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
One fundamental chord of constant pain - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
That wrests the victory from pain - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"
Such pain as to reveal your hue - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
No friend to ease the heart's pain - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Complicate the pain - Philip Levine "Mad Day in March"
To rinse off the pain of nightmare - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Caught in the Circle of Pain - Amy Levy "Felo de Se"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Nor swerves for pain or rue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"
Not akin to pain - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"
Upon which pain will not falter - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"
The family that feasts on pain - Tariq Luthun "I Just Want Everyone to Understand"
Their little bites distracting you from harder pain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
By thy heart's prophetic pain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring in Nazareth"
High o'er the mists of pain and of despair - James Allan Mackereth "Hail and Farewell"
An illusion is truth untouched of pain - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
An insufferable point of pain dissolved - Harry Martinson "Aniara 65" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Into the chalice of your pain - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"
Plucked the sanguine flower of pain - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
Pain and sorrow woven - Theodore Maynard "To Any Saint"
The pain will always dream - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Patience and pain on the part of the scientist - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
A distance from either pain or patience - W.S. Merwin "Harm's Way"
Red is the strangest pain to bear - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
Molded in sorrow and sweetened by pain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Rain at the Mill"
Would recant vows made in pain - John Milton "Paradise Lost"
That weight us with keenest sorrow and longest pain - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
In the right light, even pain can sparkle - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"
Leave those vaults of pain and sorrow - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
Flooded dwellings and crevices of pain - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
The load of solitary pain - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Country of anonymous pains - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Like an ancient map of pain - Walter Dean Myers "Junice Lomax, 23, Unemployed"
The draughts of winter's pain - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"
Pains of the extinct homeland - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The statistics that pain still lacks - Pablo Neruda "The Watersong Ends" transl. by Alastair Reid
Grow old bones to eat pain - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
New gathered at the price of pain - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
The distraction of a sunrise and a pain remembered - Margaret Noodin "Concerning Distance" transl. by the author
Beyond the last horizon of your pain - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"
Thought pain had no tongue - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arabic"
Lines between our pain and earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"
Wrought out of the fires of anguish and pain - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
And charm the heart from pain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"
Even at pain's deafening intrusion - Grace Paley "Even"
Black as pain - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"
With sweet pain of richest world's desire - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
With heart-pain unforgot - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
To voice the pain of bliss - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"
Under the yoke of labour and of pain - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Through the empty chaos and pain - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"
Pain coiled in the drywall - Kiki Petrosino "Farm Book"
This pain breathing into any place that doesn't hurt - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
The law of pain - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Nightingale with her ecstatic pain transfixed - John Presland "The Deluge"
My brain whirled and grew dizzy with sudden pain - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Make bright music give forth a sound of pain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Parching in its fever pain - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Until my pain is upside down - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"
His fingers on fire and welded to pain - Charles Rafferty "Catena"
The scorpion tail of her voice speared its own pain - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Linked by what you think is pain - Paisley Rekdal "Vessels"
Foils for fencing with pain - Adrienne Rich "Victory"
Five-pierced with old pain - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Wore the rose of pain - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Or rob defeat of pain - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hour of Most Desire"
Went silent with my memory and my pain - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
Carrying impulse pain and self - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Joy that touches pain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
Nor tomb them in my hollow caves of pain - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Darkest anodyne against our pain - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"
In pain without knowing why - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"
With beads of pain upon his face - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
That strive to drown the voice of pain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"
When the Passion and the Pain their havoc have begun - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
From reeds that breathe in pain - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Maybe pain adds to the sea - Sandra Simonds "Lindos, Greece"
Pierced me through with immortal pain - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
With pain's leaping ember - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"
Profit of pain, joy by the weight of a word - Leonora Speyer "Measure Me, Sky!"
How the apple-boughs are twisted in their pain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
And Mars requites me for my pain - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"
Lamps in rooms of pain - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Considering the mystery of pain - George Sterling "Pride and Conscience"
Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"
Pain killing pain - Wallace Stevens "Esthetique du Mal"
Through sun and singing pain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sacrament"
No more shall I kennel with pain - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
The hint the sunset had of pain - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Wounded by a double pain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 148: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Wrecked hope and passionate pain - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Through the searing pain of the divine influx - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Will rustle under painful light - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
Darken beauty with your plots of pain - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta X: The Mirror-Cases II"
Undo the pain before you speak - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Whose wasted warmth but nurtures pain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Pain emerging from unexpected places - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
Oppression's long dark night of pain - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
What of pain among the dead - Eunice Tietjens "To Jake"
You plant the pain in my heart - John Todhunter "An Irish Love Song"
The ripples blown by pain - Jean Toomer "Face"
That vision tender, over all my loss and pain - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Those faces pain has marked - Iris Tree "London"
Pain has all the patience of a nun - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
And pain hath grown to power at length - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Stumbling with pain and fears - William Troy "Roads"
Beat with such bitter, restless pain - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
Ghosts of vanished joy and pain - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
The key that locks me from a world of pain - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Though given the same pain - Rosemarie Waldrop "Not a Description"
Our spirits of pain - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"
Triangles painted by pain - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
So versed in all the arts of pain - Edith Wharton "Alternative Epitaphs"
A glimpse of brightness, parting and pain - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"
And lingering pain of you - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Enough pain to set fires - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"
A space whose very size is pain - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"
Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Equal to their wishes and their pains - "The Whore"
Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]
That pain produces logic - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"
The pain scalding us toward each other - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
We were never ones to avoid pain - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"
Come to banish wracking pain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
Pain rides itself through - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"
A bright core to bitter black pain - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Broken glass, reflecting pain - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
To scrub away the silk threads of pain - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Music pushes back against pain - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Lean into the lightning shaft of pain - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"
The pain orbits around Jupiter - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
And mercy deals the pain-inflicting blow - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Quick and painlessly employed - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Too sweet painsong in passages of night - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 28"
Painsong for sorcerers - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"
A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
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