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Potential Titles: Doubt/Dubious

Doubting between joy and pain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Beyond the sphere of doubt and crime - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Plunging doubt's knives into what I love - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

Suspended like a lifelong doubt - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"

In the dawn of a reasonable doubt - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"

With doubtful caution treads the echoing ground - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Half surprised by what they doubt - Elizabeth Bartlett "Perspective"

doubts can frost and worries blight - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

Unsubdued by doubts and fears - Cora C. Bass "Freedom's Son"

Hope's tortured sails and doubts - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

The palaces of doubt and silence - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Dear and desperate doubter - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"

Scoffs and doubts and obstacles - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

No craven doubt shall shake our trust - "The Brave and Free" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Beyond the spider of a doubt - Julian Talamantez Brolaski "sky hammer"

graffiti me out of doubt - Regie Cabico "A Queerification"

Nor heart of doubting prove - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

Tears kindle not the doubtful spark - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

With snow and doubt - Jennifer Chang "The Strangers"

A doubt that makes my heart grow sick - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

And puzzling doubts remain - Joseph Horatio Chant "Alaskan Boundary Settlement"

Doubt all things invisible - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]

Doubt all things visible - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]

Whittled down to smoke and doubt - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

A few harsh words of doubting - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]

Shed the clothes of our doubting - Leonard Cohen "Slowly I Married Her"

Maddening doubts born from the demon cry - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Grim rocks of dread and doubt - Susan Coolidge "Ebb and Flow"

And doubt pursued me - Benjamin Copeland "Struggle and Rest"

Doubted truth in blue - Nathalia Crane "The Vestal"

That sailed the doubtful seas - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Faith's last doubt - e.e. cummings "nothing false and possible is love…"

Through perturbing touch of doubt - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Cleave this killing doubt asunder - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

Variegated life of doubt and hope - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Silence of doubt, silence of comprehension - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Doubtful sanctuaries between wars - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Doubt with certain wisdom - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

Until we learn to doubt its existence - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Bordered by doubt - Gloria Fuertes "Human Geography"

A joke of doubtful taste - W.S. Gilbert "General John"

Threads of doubt, unwinding spools - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Lowering clouds of doubts and fears - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"

Consoler of the doubting and distressed - C. L. Graves "Remunerative Rhymes"

Only acts of doubt are done - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"

Known courses with uncharted doubt - Russell Green "De Mundo"

Unchilled by damps of doubt - Thomas Hardy "A Woman's Trust"

Had no antecedents for doubt - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Being anywhere is always in doubt - Tom Healy "Base Camp"

Vocabulary of doubt and down - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Spirits deep immerse in doubt and trouble - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Futurity"

An assassin of doubt & circumstance - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2005: What Dreams Are These?"

Doubt in sleep all cast asunder - Jennie Earngey Hill "Dreaming"

The slithering serpent of doubt - Edward Hirsch "Zora Neale Hurston"

Faint streaks of doubtful light - "Hours of Childhood"

And wander in a larger Doubt - Richard Hughes "Felo de Se"

What sympathy in doubt - Allison Joseph "Untethered"

Suspicions of newer songs and doubts - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Evening mists of doubt and sorrow - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

His doubt covers them like unforgiving ash - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

May not deal in doubt or pity - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

Inherited the benefit of the doubt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

With what doubting eyes - Archibald Lampman "A Re-Assurance"

Lest I fall in doubt, and reproach you - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

My black doubts illumined and absorbed - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The doubtful current of Time's mighty river - Henry S. Leigh "The End of an Old Year"

Star by star to burn the doubt - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A border of mist and doubt - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"

The wilderness of doubt - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Song"

The bitter wind of doubt has blown - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Beset by doubts of every breed - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Large estates of doubts and snares - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Where Doubt's eddies toss and twirl - James Russell Lowell "In a Copy of Omar Khayyam"

Sin is the foster-child of Doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

Shook the dust of utter doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

The chain of her doubt - George Martin "On Mount Royal"

Doubt and darkness to evade - Thomas D'Arcy McGee "To Ask Our Lady's Patronage for a Book on Columbus: A Fragment"

The music drowned his doubt - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "He Went for a Soldier"

Theirs at length beyond all doubt - T. Sturge Moore "A Spanish Picture"

From the dream-mist doubtful and dim - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

Burned up doubt after doubt - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

But why a prey to doubt remain? - John Napier "Who Knows?"

The dead year of doubt - Pablo Neruda "Insomnia" transl. by Alastair Reid

Swim again in a sea of doubt - E. Nesbit "The Island"

No reason to doubt witchcraft - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Nothing like a doubt or qualm - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: I. The First or Bridge Hole"

Just draws the route out of doubt - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

Overcast by clouds of doubt - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"

Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"

Feeling not a shade of doubt - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Lighting up the clouds of doubt - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Conquered Doubt and faced a thousand alarms - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"

Flee for refuge from our doubt - Walter S. Percy "What Is Faith?"

Snags on my nexus of doubts - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"

The one in the mind called doubt - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

On a wave of doubt mixed with fear - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"

Keep just one thread of doubt - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Warning"

My doubts like glass seeds - Sina Queyras "Thalidomide; Or, What She Didn't Ask"

No cloud of doubt come o'er your sky - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The labyrinths of doubt and care - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"

Prove a thing, then doubt it - James Whitcombe Riley "Natural Perversities"

The heaving of our doubtful breath - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

A truth that is builded on doubt - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"

For ten long hours of doubt and dread - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Where creeping doubts and dumb, dull sorrows press - Edward Shanks "The Return"

For this is the fruit of doubting - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Who live on the edge of doubt - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Siphon doubt from his throat - Jake Skeets "Buffalograss"

Earth that never doubts nor fears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"

my tracks say doubt - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

Marks the brink of doubt - A.E. Stallings "Blackbird Etude"

We walk out like shadows of a doubt - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"

With the stars in doubt - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"

Never broken by doubt - General Su Wu "To His Wife" (translated by Arthur Waley)

The iron hollow of doubtful heaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The frigid threads of doubt and dark - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

The doubtful empire of the night - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

With doubts that will not let me rest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

With a buoyant doubt - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

The doubt that is but fashion - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

No doubt the trees eat light - Emily van Kley "Fall Color"

Undimmed by hovering wraith of doubt - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Doubting such peace - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

And either way there lies a doubt - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"

With the ancient doubt and terror - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

The fever of doubtful news - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

To doubt his sleep - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"

That pair of doubting eyes - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #4" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


A doubt-driven distance between - brian g. gilmore "the lansing negro"


Of soot and self-doubt - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"


Sent them forth undoubting - Annie Rothwell Christie "Welcome Home"

Memory's talk is undoubtably true - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"


Dubious and luminous joy - Andrew Hudgins "Blur"

The future's dubious lot - Felicia Hemans "To My Eldest Brother"

Caught from dubious hues - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"

Trouble the dubious dawn - Alice Meynell "The Rainy Summer"


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