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Potential Titles: Delight
From fears that are the shadow of delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
A mind new-made of shadowless delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Delighting the family portraits - Francisco X. Alarcon "My Grandma's Songs"
Clip imagination's wing and kill delight - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
The cabinet of fossilized delights - Mary Jo Bang "The Dog Bark"
Fashioned for a giant's delight - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited
My rose of heart's delight - Charlotte Becker "Song"
Wit and wine and all delights - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
And cheat me with your false delight - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Her thorns were my only delight - William Blake "My Pretty Rose Tree"
Who always delighted to roam - Vera M. Brittain "Boar's Hill, October, 1919"
Broken notes, blending in a wild delight - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Delighted by a congregation of trees celebrating - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Delighted by life's parade throwing its confetti down - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The fluent motion of delight - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Time delights in dealing wounds which he alone can heal - Clarence Frederick Buhler "The March of Life" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
A galaxy of delight and sorrow - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
On what heart I found delight - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
But summer comes despoiled of her delight - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"
Misery still delights to trace - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"
Their reign of high delights - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Matchless mirrors of delight - Nathalia Crane "The Rose of Rest"
That white road of wonder and delight - Olive Custance "Hylas"
Climb the ladders of delight - Olive Custance "A Morning Song"
That hungers for delight - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"
Of melancholy and of old delight - Coningsby Dawson "The Mirror of Thought"
Delight that was is grown disaster fell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Deep in my heart's remembrance and delight - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Dream in calm delight - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
Entice the shy birds of delight - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"
Sweet deceiving lock me in delight - John Fletcher "Right Good Is Rest"
Troy towers for my delight and crumbles stone by stone - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
That lead to the far confluence of delights - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Sweet and delightful are in loneliness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
The fading edge of all delight - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Some resting flower of yesterday's delight - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"
Steals its kisses with delight - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
Drew delightful Mammoths on the borders of his cave - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Similar Cases"
Mingle in whirlpools of untamed delight - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Lucid persecution of delight - David Gray "The Moon I"
Delight in anything that can move us - Kimberly Grey "Conditional Dreaming"
The dark hour of stern delight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The full current of serene delight - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Who delight in the dance of a darling Bacchante - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
From every lure of old delight - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Who face a hopeless hill with sparking and delight - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
That are my solace and delight - Edward Hovell-Thurlow "The Sylvan Life"
Filled with intoxication of delight - Victor Hugo "The Genesis of Butterflies" transl. by Andrew Lang
A spark of blue delight - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
Afford thy soul delight - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
Delight to spice the tasteless years - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Delight in the glories that brighten - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"
The wasted fabric of an old delight - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"
The press of an unnamed delight - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"
Who delight in the worship of Bacchus - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (For a Cavalier Tea-Party)"
Still may revive the delights - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Repeat the delightful experiment - Henry S. Leigh "An Unappreciated Crichton"
Wave blossoms for my delight - Li Yu "[Wave blossoms for my delight]" transl. by Burton Watson
Why am I not allowed delight? - Ada Limon "Give Me This"
In the relentlessly delighted air - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"
The delicate flowers of delight - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
That in your fields delights - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
With strange delight - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Drinking deep of an old delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"
Bloom of the world's delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
By simple singing of delight - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
The thought that lurks in all delight - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Fragrant and fresh delights unfold - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"
Delight is in her ears - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
Old love shall dwell with old delight - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
Half possessed by delight - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"
With gleams of new delight - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
And the ants are delighted - Mary Oliver "Someday"
To sing me sagas of your late delights - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Will served to feed new wonders, more delights - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
With a tyrannous remembrance of delight - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"
That stirred with rapture of delight - Alice Wellington Rollins "Charm"
Continual delight and comfort find - Alice Wellington Rollins "Thought"
Gather a store of sweet delight - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
When such rare delights as these abide - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"
Keyed to dolor and delight - Clinton Scollard "Night by the Sea"
Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
All measures of delightful sound - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Spirit of delight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Song"
Who put himself delightedly among the best of company - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
And desperate, brief delights - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"
Her fount of calm delights - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Starry sheaves of the delighted year - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"
What new delight of waters - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Where the soul's delight takes fire - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
And my heart would be robbed of delight - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Stopping Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
For your spirit's still delight - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Who drank delight - Sara Teasdale "The Wine"
Chambers emptied of delight - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Drunk delight of battle - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
The oak groves flushed with spring delight - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Delight to cheer each pensive exile - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Dearer than all delight - Louis Untermeyer "At Kennebunkport"
The emblems of our own delight - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires I" transl. by Alma Strettell
Dazzled by my own delight - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Move with delighted feet - John Hall Wheelock "The Sorrowful Masquerade"
One amber dawn's delight - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"
The moonlit skater's keen delight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The object which delights them to destroy - "The Whore"
Blessed with truth and new delight - Richard Wilbur "June Light"
Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Enchanting scenes of young delight - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Discovered the delight of song - Nancy Wood "When the Morningstars Sang Together"
Impulse of delight - W.B. Yeats "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
The splendid flower of their delight - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
With no more dreams for my delight - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Liquid litany of heart-delight - Margaret Houston "In the Garden"
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A mind new-made of shadowless delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Delighting the family portraits - Francisco X. Alarcon "My Grandma's Songs"
Clip imagination's wing and kill delight - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
The cabinet of fossilized delights - Mary Jo Bang "The Dog Bark"
Fashioned for a giant's delight - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited
My rose of heart's delight - Charlotte Becker "Song"
Wit and wine and all delights - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
And cheat me with your false delight - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Her thorns were my only delight - William Blake "My Pretty Rose Tree"
Who always delighted to roam - Vera M. Brittain "Boar's Hill, October, 1919"
Broken notes, blending in a wild delight - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Delighted by a congregation of trees celebrating - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Delighted by life's parade throwing its confetti down - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The fluent motion of delight - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Time delights in dealing wounds which he alone can heal - Clarence Frederick Buhler "The March of Life" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
A galaxy of delight and sorrow - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
On what heart I found delight - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
But summer comes despoiled of her delight - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"
Misery still delights to trace - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"
Their reign of high delights - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Matchless mirrors of delight - Nathalia Crane "The Rose of Rest"
That white road of wonder and delight - Olive Custance "Hylas"
Climb the ladders of delight - Olive Custance "A Morning Song"
That hungers for delight - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"
Of melancholy and of old delight - Coningsby Dawson "The Mirror of Thought"
Delight that was is grown disaster fell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Deep in my heart's remembrance and delight - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Dream in calm delight - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
Entice the shy birds of delight - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"
Sweet deceiving lock me in delight - John Fletcher "Right Good Is Rest"
Troy towers for my delight and crumbles stone by stone - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
That lead to the far confluence of delights - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Sweet and delightful are in loneliness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
The fading edge of all delight - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Some resting flower of yesterday's delight - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"
Steals its kisses with delight - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
Drew delightful Mammoths on the borders of his cave - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Similar Cases"
Mingle in whirlpools of untamed delight - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Lucid persecution of delight - David Gray "The Moon I"
Delight in anything that can move us - Kimberly Grey "Conditional Dreaming"
The dark hour of stern delight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The full current of serene delight - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Who delight in the dance of a darling Bacchante - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
From every lure of old delight - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Who face a hopeless hill with sparking and delight - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
That are my solace and delight - Edward Hovell-Thurlow "The Sylvan Life"
Filled with intoxication of delight - Victor Hugo "The Genesis of Butterflies" transl. by Andrew Lang
A spark of blue delight - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
Afford thy soul delight - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
Delight to spice the tasteless years - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Delight in the glories that brighten - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"
The wasted fabric of an old delight - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"
The press of an unnamed delight - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"
Who delight in the worship of Bacchus - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (For a Cavalier Tea-Party)"
Still may revive the delights - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Repeat the delightful experiment - Henry S. Leigh "An Unappreciated Crichton"
Wave blossoms for my delight - Li Yu "[Wave blossoms for my delight]" transl. by Burton Watson
Why am I not allowed delight? - Ada Limon "Give Me This"
In the relentlessly delighted air - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"
The delicate flowers of delight - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
That in your fields delights - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
With strange delight - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Drinking deep of an old delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"
Bloom of the world's delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
By simple singing of delight - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
The thought that lurks in all delight - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Fragrant and fresh delights unfold - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"
Delight is in her ears - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
Old love shall dwell with old delight - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
Half possessed by delight - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"
With gleams of new delight - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
And the ants are delighted - Mary Oliver "Someday"
To sing me sagas of your late delights - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Will served to feed new wonders, more delights - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
With a tyrannous remembrance of delight - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"
That stirred with rapture of delight - Alice Wellington Rollins "Charm"
Continual delight and comfort find - Alice Wellington Rollins "Thought"
Gather a store of sweet delight - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
When such rare delights as these abide - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"
Keyed to dolor and delight - Clinton Scollard "Night by the Sea"
Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
All measures of delightful sound - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Spirit of delight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Song"
Who put himself delightedly among the best of company - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
And desperate, brief delights - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"
Her fount of calm delights - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Starry sheaves of the delighted year - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"
What new delight of waters - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Where the soul's delight takes fire - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
And my heart would be robbed of delight - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Stopping Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
For your spirit's still delight - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Who drank delight - Sara Teasdale "The Wine"
Chambers emptied of delight - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Drunk delight of battle - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
The oak groves flushed with spring delight - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Delight to cheer each pensive exile - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Dearer than all delight - Louis Untermeyer "At Kennebunkport"
The emblems of our own delight - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires I" transl. by Alma Strettell
Dazzled by my own delight - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Move with delighted feet - John Hall Wheelock "The Sorrowful Masquerade"
One amber dawn's delight - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"
The moonlit skater's keen delight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The object which delights them to destroy - "The Whore"
Blessed with truth and new delight - Richard Wilbur "June Light"
Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Enchanting scenes of young delight - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Discovered the delight of song - Nancy Wood "When the Morningstars Sang Together"
Impulse of delight - W.B. Yeats "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
The splendid flower of their delight - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
With no more dreams for my delight - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Liquid litany of heart-delight - Margaret Houston "In the Garden"
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