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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 loveā¦"
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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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 loveā¦"
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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