Potential Titles: Happiness/Happy
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somethingdarkerNever unpack the rucksack of happiness again - Carl Adamshick "Loss"
To the boats born so happy - Etel Adnan "Night"
Poor planning lets fate devour the happy story - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"
After the vows and the happy tears - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Like a vicarious happiness - Rae Armantrout "A Resemblance"
Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
repeat a happy song until it becomes a blade - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Happy in my fading dream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
The clashing bones of happiness and fear - Maxwell Bodenheim "Insanity"
False grief in my happy bed - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
Dreams happy as her day - Rupert Brooke "The Soldier"
Earth's golden keys of happiness - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
The happy progeny of mirth - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall
Happy on entering the dance - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Of happier-tempered coffee - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
This shady path of happiness - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"
Into dust and happy nothingness - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Unsatisfied hearts hungry for happiness - Olive Custance "The Storm"
Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Since in love only is set my happiness - Christine de Pisan "[Very God of Love, who art of lovers Lord]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Wrapped in the comradeship of happy things - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Trench Incident"
Happy in my sparrow chance - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVII: Enough"
Laughing out a happy name - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
The shroud and envelope of happiness - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oblivion"
Happy to practice speaking - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
Our hearts happy with love unexpressed - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
And lead in happiness on a path of thorns - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Recalling all his happy yesterdays - Edgar A. Guest "The Grate Fire"
A happier condemnation than I deserved - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"
And blest ten thousand happy things - Rev. J. Wesley Hanson "The Fairy's Gift" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
The taste of happiness in the throat - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Hasn't yet learned that happiness is contingent - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Of the past one happy thing I know - Kate Hillard "After a Year" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Sanctify human happiness - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"
Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
A dream of happiness remembered dim - William D. Howells "Vagary"
Happy in the golden march of sunlight - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Jealous of my happier eyes - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Phantom happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Memory whose burning eyes have met the corse [sic] of unborn happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
All the happiness and joy and don't care in you - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Sound harmony to happy hearts - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Where has fled the happy dream - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Leads Dante to the happy stars - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
When happiness is caught off guard - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"
With the happy grace of athletes - Michael Lauchlan "Trumbull Ave., 1981"
Happy in eternal waiting - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Wicked at the door of happiness - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
On earth true happiness to find - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend
In their happy talk not joining - Lermontof "Dream" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Hollow the happy farewell party - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The Dreams of Happiness I have each Night - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Grow in happy abandon - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"
Secure as happy yesterdays - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
A holiday for happy hearts - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"
While happy winds go laughing - Claude McKay "Spring in New Hampshire"
Of happy days and faded flowers - Frank J. Medina "Parting"
The homeless outcast happy hours will find - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
Welcome in those happier spheres - Morna "Ianthe"
The key of the happy golden land - William Morris "The Blue Closet"
Only dogs know how to be happy - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
Supremely happy in her ignorance of Time - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
My delicious dark happiness - Mary Oliver "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen"
My happy pen your host shall be - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
So in midnight does happiness capture us - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"
Not half so happy in heaven - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Happy with the song of streams - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
The happy lark but newly risen - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To the Earth"
The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Happy with the waste of the world - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
Happy Heart coming home from the hills - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"
Within the happy silence of my heart - Alice Wellington Rollins "Absent-Minded"
On the top of happy hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
Exceeded by the height of happier men - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
Happiness in an imagined world - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"
Some shy, unbidden happiness - A.E. Stallings "Telephonophobia"
The happy clatter of little goslings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Those who deem their happiness of worth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Happily venerating the sun among gnats - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"
Gulfs remote from happiness or hope - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Happiness was burned forever under a pile of ashes - Tu Fu "The Ashes of My House" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Fields where my happy heart had rest - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Happier in the loss of love - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"
When our wars were happier - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"
Break happily into blossom - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"
Unlike despair, happiness knows no final answer - Charles Wright "Only the I-Ching Hexagrams Are Lacking"
Diagrams for future happiness - Adam Zagajewski "Pencil"
Happiness ran through the walls - Jordan Zandi "Inside"
Pediatrics every morning and toxicology by happy hour - Dean Young "Crash Test Dummies of an Imperfect God" [Poetry Nov. 2011]
Unhappy/Unhappiness.
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To the boats born so happy - Etel Adnan "Night"
Poor planning lets fate devour the happy story - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"
After the vows and the happy tears - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Like a vicarious happiness - Rae Armantrout "A Resemblance"
Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
repeat a happy song until it becomes a blade - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Happy in my fading dream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
The clashing bones of happiness and fear - Maxwell Bodenheim "Insanity"
False grief in my happy bed - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
Dreams happy as her day - Rupert Brooke "The Soldier"
Earth's golden keys of happiness - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
The happy progeny of mirth - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall
Happy on entering the dance - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Of happier-tempered coffee - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
This shady path of happiness - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"
Into dust and happy nothingness - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Unsatisfied hearts hungry for happiness - Olive Custance "The Storm"
Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Since in love only is set my happiness - Christine de Pisan "[Very God of Love, who art of lovers Lord]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Wrapped in the comradeship of happy things - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Trench Incident"
Happy in my sparrow chance - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVII: Enough"
Laughing out a happy name - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
The shroud and envelope of happiness - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oblivion"
Happy to practice speaking - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
Our hearts happy with love unexpressed - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
And lead in happiness on a path of thorns - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Recalling all his happy yesterdays - Edgar A. Guest "The Grate Fire"
A happier condemnation than I deserved - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"
And blest ten thousand happy things - Rev. J. Wesley Hanson "The Fairy's Gift" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
The taste of happiness in the throat - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Hasn't yet learned that happiness is contingent - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Of the past one happy thing I know - Kate Hillard "After a Year" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Sanctify human happiness - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"
Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
A dream of happiness remembered dim - William D. Howells "Vagary"
Happy in the golden march of sunlight - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Jealous of my happier eyes - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Phantom happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Memory whose burning eyes have met the corse [sic] of unborn happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
All the happiness and joy and don't care in you - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Sound harmony to happy hearts - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Where has fled the happy dream - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Leads Dante to the happy stars - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
When happiness is caught off guard - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"
With the happy grace of athletes - Michael Lauchlan "Trumbull Ave., 1981"
Happy in eternal waiting - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Wicked at the door of happiness - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
On earth true happiness to find - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend
In their happy talk not joining - Lermontof "Dream" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Hollow the happy farewell party - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The Dreams of Happiness I have each Night - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Grow in happy abandon - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"
Secure as happy yesterdays - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
A holiday for happy hearts - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"
While happy winds go laughing - Claude McKay "Spring in New Hampshire"
Of happy days and faded flowers - Frank J. Medina "Parting"
The homeless outcast happy hours will find - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
Welcome in those happier spheres - Morna "Ianthe"
The key of the happy golden land - William Morris "The Blue Closet"
Only dogs know how to be happy - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
Supremely happy in her ignorance of Time - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
My delicious dark happiness - Mary Oliver "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen"
My happy pen your host shall be - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
So in midnight does happiness capture us - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"
Not half so happy in heaven - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Happy with the song of streams - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
The happy lark but newly risen - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To the Earth"
The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Happy with the waste of the world - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
Happy Heart coming home from the hills - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"
Within the happy silence of my heart - Alice Wellington Rollins "Absent-Minded"
On the top of happy hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
Exceeded by the height of happier men - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
Happiness in an imagined world - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"
Some shy, unbidden happiness - A.E. Stallings "Telephonophobia"
The happy clatter of little goslings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Those who deem their happiness of worth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Happily venerating the sun among gnats - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"
Gulfs remote from happiness or hope - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Happiness was burned forever under a pile of ashes - Tu Fu "The Ashes of My House" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Fields where my happy heart had rest - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Happier in the loss of love - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"
When our wars were happier - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"
Break happily into blossom - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"
Unlike despair, happiness knows no final answer - Charles Wright "Only the I-Ching Hexagrams Are Lacking"
Diagrams for future happiness - Adam Zagajewski "Pencil"
Happiness ran through the walls - Jordan Zandi "Inside"
Pediatrics every morning and toxicology by happy hour - Dean Young "Crash Test Dummies of an Imperfect God" [Poetry Nov. 2011]
Unhappy/Unhappiness.
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