somethingdarker: (Default)
[personal profile] somethingdarker
Where your gentle sisters may not weep - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"

Where gentle minnows glide - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"

Each petal I plucked so gently - Diannely Antigua "I Buy My Monster Roses"

Made gentle the wild oceans - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

And gentlest ray of stars glide down - Rev. Rufus Henry Bacon "Woman's Heart:--A Sonnet. For Julia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Softer breathe the gentle zephyrs - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"

Fell gently on my heart like falling dews - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A gentle word in sorrow's ear - Cora C. Bass "No Blessing Ever Comes by Chance"

Stray thoughts from the gentle ticking of action - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"

Gentle and delicate as Ariel - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

On a calm and gentle tide - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"

Conquer me gently - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The gentle name of spring - William Cullen Bryant "March"

Your gentle soul a well of beauty - Gerald Bullett "Rest"

With gently smiling jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Crocodile"

With eerie gentle purpose - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

Tempests broke its gentle dream - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

But not subjected to her gentle Reign - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

A gentle fiery teacher - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"

Gentle mistress of my hopes - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Gentle joys and heart-break rue - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Sleeping gentle over steel bones - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Will gentle words feed me - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Orphan gentling toward a dying time - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Unlearn holy as gentle - Nikita Gill "A Mortal Interlude"

Who gently places fallen baby birds back - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"

Gentler than a snowdrop - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."

Our lives held in this gentle cup - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

And urge her gentle prophecy - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

Moonbeams falling, gently trace - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"

Gentle twilight's fairy fingers - "Hours of Childhood"

Eying the spiral turn of the plum tree's gentle confetti - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Gentle flotsam of an oceanic dream - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"

Gently stroke the surface of stars - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

Gentle flames will glide - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"

Swift wafted by the gentle gale - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

The second hand ticking gently in front of the eyes - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Studying the harmony of gentle Shakspeare - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"

Tethered only gently to this world - Ted Kooser "Bank Fishing for Bluegills"

Spider's silk in a gentle breeze - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

Alone here in the gentle breeze - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Though the sun calls and gentle zephyrs plead - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

Around the handle of your gentle kettle - Joseph O. Legaspi "Raspberries"

Sends the gentle breeze to woo the flower - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

Who promises that death is gentle too - Amy Levy "The Promise of Sleep"

Waiting for gentle souls to offer help - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

The way old grief is gentle - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"

Gentle with thresholds - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"

Woe unto that gentle heart - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Bent her gentle knee to earth - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Gentleness finds its dignity - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "A Greeting"

Gentlest of the wise - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

Inch on inch of gentle heart - Ou-yang Hsiu "[At the post house lodge]" transl. by Burton Watson

And the gentle lilies overflow - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Mask the gentle sky - Dorothy Parker "Absence"

Listening to the gentle rhythm of motion - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

Smooth as gently breathing gales - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"

Not the first piece of gentleness - Carl Phillips "Barbarian"

Before I indulge your gentleness - Xan Forest Phillips "You and I"

Rises gently on the harbor - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"

The gentleness your questions taught - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"

Anointing me with gentle warnings - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

This dense huddle of gentle bark and quiet drape - Ellen Rowland "What Branches Hold"

On gentle roads into the splendor - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

That with gentle work did frame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

The haunt of every gentle wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The gentle gaze of fawn and deer - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

Love has a hundred gentle ends - Leonora Speyer "Two Passionate Ones Part"

Preserve their sweets with gentle care - "Spring Blossoms" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]

Press gently on a loveliness - Marion Strobel "Little Things"

Gentle history of the rain - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"

Gentle footsteps wandered near to mine - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

That cruel pride held gentle pity's place - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: V"

I am not gentle but I could be - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

The gentle touch of dripping dew - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"

Joining gently the edges of time - A. Van Jordan "Vestiges"

Gently chain the joined wrists - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

Gentleness in the shade of shadows - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

Moss gentles my broken stones - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"

Gentle violets weeping with the dew - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Keats"

The only condition for gentleness - Jenny Xie "Solitude Study"

Hour of gentleness - William Butler Yeats "Ephemera"

The explosion cradles her gently - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"


Ungentle touch would crush it - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

With sudden hand ungently laid - D.E.A. Wallace "Sonnet in Contempt of Death"


Navigation Links:
Go to G word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.

Profile

somethingdarker: (Default)
somethingdarker

October 2022

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16 171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jan. 5th, 2026 12:54 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios