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Potential Titles: Bliss

To be so cavalier with their bliss - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"

What bliss can wealth afford to me - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Dreams of a certain coming bliss - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]

In all my dreams of bliss - Auguste Angellier "Dreams" transl. by Henry van Dyke

To crown the hills with bliss - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke

The image of that bliss to paint - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"

Many times on blissful heights - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

Must not aspire to bliss - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

A flint to bliss - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"

That bliss be shared with me - Anne Bronte "The Student's Serenade"

Speaks bliss to me - Emily Bronte "Fall Leaves Fall"

Almost too tired for bliss - Marie Hedderwick Browne "And for the Weary, Rest"

Knowing nothing of the bliss of sorrow borne - Edward Carpenter "Death"

To seek for bliss alone - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Place bliss and glory there - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Assumed to mystic bliss - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Will bask in blissful dreams - E. Coungeau "To Selene"

While we raise the cup of bliss - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"

The pivot-point of bliss - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

Old deep memories to mar the bliss - H.D. "Leda"

Bliss is sold just once - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LII"

Collapse in a bliss of gravity - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"

Too subtle is the spirit's bliss - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Revive one blossom for Thy bliss - Helen Parry Eden "Post-Communion"

Adventure on the road of bliss - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"

Unearthly bliss each thrilling nerve attunes - Thomas Gent "Poems"

Barren of bliss and robbed of golden cheer - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

Forgetful of the world of bliss - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

For a vision of fanciful bliss to barter - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

Ends this gorging bliss - Avis Harley "Worldly Wise"

Gathered stores of unproved bliss - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

Will forget those days of mingled bliss - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"

Sovereign of the blissful skies - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

So many hundreds of hours of bliss - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

Such a breathless honey-feel of bliss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The tale of all my blissful hours - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"

Every bliss is built this way - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? - George MacDonald "Baby's Answers" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Arts which taught the soul excess of bliss - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

In dewy dreams of bliss - George Martin "Marguerite"

Had of bliss an ample share - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

Bliss is a body absconding - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

A tender chilling bliss - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"

Points to bowers of bliss beyond the gloom - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]

What a heaven of bliss was ours - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Whisper runes of bliss - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"

Bliss hovering above the void - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"

The crisp flight and the buzzing bliss - Mary Oliver "Three Songs: 3"

A grief that links two hearts in bliss - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]

The ground of all my bliss - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

To voice the pain of bliss - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"

A poet's dream of bliss - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"

That once have tasted the fairy banquet's bliss - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"

And tears of bliss in silence weep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

To dream in soft ethereal realms of bliss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

Drowned in wells of bliss - Nathaniel G. Shepherd "A Summer Reminiscence"

Bliss at having thieved identities - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"

The shadowy bliss we exist to explore - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

To number blue infinities of bliss - Francis G. Stokes "Blue Moonshine"

Fathom that mine of every bliss - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The dare and thrill of bliss - Arthur Sze "Lichen Song"

To the bowers of bliss conveyed - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

Shed no more celestial bliss - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

Exotic passions and uncanny bliss - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Bliss enhanced by rapture of surprise - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Apropos of bliss - Michael Van Walleghen "Happiness"

O'ertoppling moment of supremest bliss - Edith Wharton "The Last Token. A.D. 107. (She Speaks)"

Where madness melts in bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude - William Wordsworth "[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]"

And drink of bliss my fill - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"


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