Potential Titles: Joy
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Doubting between joy and pain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Divers rising through leagues of joy - Carl Adamshick "Loss"
The needle of quick joy point truly - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"
How frail are riches and their joys - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Fit for the conjugation of joy - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
Every simple square a shout of joy - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Weave the shrouds of joy and great adventure - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
Joy came as a lark - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Song"
Joy of strife with life's wild fates - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
With joy I view the waking shore - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Which folded Faust in joy elysian - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Orpheus sang to life his buried joy - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Bid these joys farewell - Catherine Barnett "Amor Fati"
Madly flung in liquid notes of purest joy - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
flamed in crimson joy - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Dyes with an Excess of Joy - Aphra Behn "In Imitation of Horace"
All my joys attending - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
Keep on knocking at the gates of joy - Rebecca G. Biber "Heiligenstadt"
And binding with briars my joys - William Blake "The Garden of Love"
A labor of tears, set against joy's undoing - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
A purposeless express of joy - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
My lonely joy in your words - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Joy's goal is but a name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 34"
Brimming with old joys - Geoffrey Brock "And Day Brought Back My Night"
Drain fate's cup of joy - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
Youthful joys too soon decay - Anne Bronte "Consolation"
Though hope may promise joys - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"
When Joy grew mad with awe - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
Fed without the aid of joy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
Woven of human joys and cares - Rupert Brooke "The Dead"
Meet with the smile of joy - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
Where pearls of joy keep bubbling up - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"
With worthy acceptance of pure joy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Heart-broke by new joy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Awake the Heroic of youth from the Hades of joy - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Start abrupt in Joy's sweet neighborhood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Called to be a witness of joy - Witter Bynner "This Man"
My joy of youthful sports - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
When joy's ephemeral beams had fled - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
With all the unuttered joys of bygone days - Frank Oliver Call "The Vision"
Through the holy joys of the azure - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Investments in the provinces of joy - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
This is the joy of the rose - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Not the amplest range of joys - George Spencer Cautley "The Foolish Colt"
This ravaged bosom might subside to peace and joy - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
The golden beads of joy that once were mine - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Where some joy untasted yet awaits - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
Shaken of the joy of giants - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Thin joys, huge pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
While I drank the sound with joy - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"
The golden joys of fancy's dawning - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"
That with the night he may associate joy - Coleridge "The Nightingale"
Joy comes with the morrow - Ina Coolbrith "After the Winter Rain"
becoming the joy to rebuild herself - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Dreams no sunrise joy shall burst - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Joys that soon decay - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
Index misty ways of joy - Nathalia Crane "The History of Honey"
If for a day joy masters me - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Through griefs of joy - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
A silken web of dreams and joys - Olive Custance "Beauty"
Deep, profound joy and menace - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
By the light of his pure joy - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"
Radiance, fragrance, fire and joy - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
While joy gave clouds the light of stars - William H. Davies "The Villain"
The vain gifts and joys which she displays - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Nor is there any joy to match with mine - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Who holds my heart in joy - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
I gathered the joys they left behind - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Mourn not the joys of the lost last year - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Abandon myself to joy - Clarissa Scott Delaney "Joy"
And shouts for joy to nobody - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature VIII: The Bluebird"
Too deep in joy's excess - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VIII. In July"
Climb to Joy's high limit - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Cannot now take hold on joy - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Quickener of earth's joy - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
A pint of joy and a peck of sorrow - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Life"
Joy and a kind of cold beauty - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
What joys accrue to the needy - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"
With joy their sceptres yield - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Where bitter joy can hear - Amelia Earhart "Courage"
Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
Hear the uproar of their joy - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
But joy is with me still - Thomas Dunn English "I Am Your Prisoner"
No joy left in the calendar - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"
Gentle joys and heart-break rue - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
The future time with joy inherit - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
And leave a metal grace, a graven joy - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
What of joy or gladness be my share - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
A new joy everytime [sic] in the telling - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
No joy but lacks salt - Robert Frost "To Earthward"
Too ready to perceive joy's inmost heart of pain - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Where even joy of sorrow speaks - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Faced with joy the lottery of light - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Brighter days and joys to see - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
And shape the thousand joys that never may exist - Thomas Gent "Poems"
No joy inside tears - brian g. gilmore "living for the city (for stevie wonder)"
Trace the secret transits of our joy - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
Scheduled hours of bartered joy - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"
And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"
Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"
Can unlock the gates of joy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
That plucks its joy in the shadow of death's wing - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Allowed a hundred different joys - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"
Be brave when the joy departs - Edgar A. Guest "Let's Be Brave"
Unto the moored fulfilment of your joy - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Who loves our fairest joys to spoil - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Evening Star"
Till my heart drains joy's cup - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Of joys that seem better forgot - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
And joy must surely flower - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Harbingers ushering joy or sorrow - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
Thoughts from joy's branches flew - Hafiz "The Divan XXXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Dancing in a rose of joy - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
Dance the weave of joy and tears - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Dead hopes and faded joys of bright departed years - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Joy prove a more steady guest - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat II"
When fate bereaves life of old joys - F.W. Harvey "The Bond"
The pain which threshes joy - F.W. Harvey "To the Devil on His Appalling Decadence"
With joy unknown, circling round his holy throne - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Joy at arm's length - Anne Hebert "Crown of Happiness"
This full tide of joy effaced - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Where joy had built his thoughtless bower - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"
Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"
The flavor of joy - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
Lured all joy to soar - Margaret Houston "In the Garden"
Dubious and luminous joy - Andrew Hudgins "Blur"
This land where joy is wrong - Langston Hughes "Our Land"
Nor fuel for the clean flame of joy - Langston Hughes "Ruby Brown"
The trellis that hides our joys - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 1 [Thick-flowered is the trellis]"
And in her awful joy repeat - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
And from its Bowl narcotic Joys beguile - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Not for joy the stars burn - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
These transient joys of earth - James Weldon Johnson "A Dream"
Imparting joy, suggesting grief - James Weldon Johnson "A Passing Melody"
With joy to rob the day - James Weldon Johnson "Prayer at Sunrise"
Pain and joy of storm - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"
Burst Joy's grape against his palate - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
The joy that young existence yields - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Unknown hoards of joy - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"
Leave alike both grief and joy - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
Proudly careering his course with joy - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Speaking pain & joy - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Its conquering joy possessed me - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Entomb blind joy in its spell - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
Gathers the ends of joy and pain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Joy within the gates of duty - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"
Less innocent joys and hopes - Henry S. Leigh "Mother"
Joy took me up to the clouds for a holiday - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
That refused the proffer'd joy - Henry S. Leigh "To a Timid Leech"
The sputter and fizz of joy-hissing stars - Hailey Leithauser "Boys of L.A."
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
All joys of soul or sense - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"
Hoards of torn desires, broken joys - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
For nearer joys should pray - Thomas MacDonagh "Wishes for My Son"
That day of joy may never dawn - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
All her joys are new - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring will Come"
Joy sufficient for my life-old thirst - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
And orphaned planets lose the joy of motion - George Martin "Laleet"
As the joy of all the bees in June - John Masefield "King Cole"
Such indirect dark avenues to joy - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Joy was in those fish unknown - John Masefield "The Setting of the Watch"
How joy and anguish intertwine - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"
Joy has rent its chrysalis - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
A joy as cleansing as the wind - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
Gave me all my joy of verse - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
Transfixes joy's brief crown - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
With all its glittering train of joys - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Not without hours of joy - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
The stone joy of being unnoticed - Jim Moore "I Call It Joy"
And joy of that last mile before I reach the sea - William Moore "Expectancy"
Who miss in our immortal joy - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
Venus' soft voice imparting its joy - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (13)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The joys of your beguiling - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"
Showered a million joys - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"
Joy in bread and stone - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Joy in fire and rain - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
With your joy of humble honeycomb - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
While joy and awe are breath - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Battle X. The Last Morning"
Joy in storms and flying suns - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"
With what ageless charge of sorrow and deep joy - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Joy's full measure knew - Meredith Nicholson "My Paddle Gleamed"
Look we still for joys to come - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
The warbling joy of hidden brooks - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"
Mad nightingales of joy - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Keeping them from the darker joys - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Full breath of joy and absence - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Full Breath of Joy and Absence"
With malicious abundant joy - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"
Inside out with joy - Ron Padgett "A New Leaf"
Reckless squander of Joy's hoard - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Joy stayed with me a night - Dorothy Parker "Light of Love"
From every joy that animates this life - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
On settled poles turn solid joys - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
The high road of my joy - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Joy hid from mortal quest - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"
With joy among the leaves - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"
Built of wickedness and joy - Carl Phillips "First Night at Sea"
Scattering joy on every hand - Josephine Pollard "The Send Off"
More substantial than their own joy - Charles Rafferty "Blackbirds"
Racing one another towards joy - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"
When every other source of joy has fled - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
A clown with tatters of a joy - Lynn Riggs "The Cross"
Clasps and keeps in voiceless joy - James Whitcombe Riley "Little David"
Among all tossing joys - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Which joys they must deny - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
Pounced on every joy - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
This curious donkey whose burden was joy - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
In other worlds expect another joy - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Their joy recalls no snake, no sword - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
Our scarce-fledged hopes and blighted joys - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VI"
Joys for which we utter praise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
Aureoles of joy encircle every blade of grass - George William Russell "The Earth Breath"
A thousand joys may foam - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Stalwarts given to the joys of God - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
Carve our sorrows on the face of joy - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Where even joy has a minor strain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: I. The Violin-Maker"
Joy that touches pain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"
Mother of beauty, mother of joy - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
Joy leaps to my throat - May Sarton "Renascence"
All of joy imbibe the dew - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"
Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"
The sense of cool and silver joys - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"
Spectres chasing joy and brightness - Thomas Hall Shastid "The Spectres"
Survive their joy - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Flower That Smiles Today"
Like joy in memory - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Stanzas Written in Dejection"
Know each ancient joy a cup for tears - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Blow upon your pipes of joy - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"
Restored are joys I counted lost - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"
The hours of joy we now inherit - G.B. Singleton "Anacreontic"
In concerts of harmonious joy - William Somerville "The Chase"
Bereft of wildwood joy and song - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
The narrow path of joy - George Sterling "Before Dawn"
Joys unalloyed shall still dwell in your mind - "Summer" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
A terror and wonder whose core was joy - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
That joy and stillness breathed into her heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
That could not tell their too full joy - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Unfold into a receptacle for holding joy - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Found more joy in sorrow - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"
White flying joy - Sara Teasdale "Meadowlarks"
Learn to water joy with tears - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Didn't waste a single crumb of joy - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
Spectral Joy once murdered in a rage - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"
As if joy were always here - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"
Wondrous fountains of joy and youth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
Before the wind of joy - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"
Weary of undesired joys - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"
A trickle of ignored joy - John Updike "Flight to Limbo"
the grateful host for our sorrows and our joys - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Ghosts of vanished joy and pain - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Bright joy amid my stones - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
Joy the seedling of a dream - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
Sing of joy to hearts now breaking - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
Still one joy remains - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
Fanned the abyss for mighty joy - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"
Every sense and scene of joy - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Lead the train of joys withheld - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
Beneath the rain's unlicensed joys - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
A joy which can encompass grief - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
Water of tears with oil of joy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"
Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
They stitch joy to sorrow - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Spring"
Building joy from absolutely nothing - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"
Their accomplished joy - Eliot Khalil Wilson "While Waiting for the Bus"
The joy of absolute abandon - Adolf Wolff "The Call of Sex"
The sap that love distills to joy - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"
The disinherited of joy - Adolf Wolff "Our Lady of Infinite Mercy"
A crumpled shock of joy - Jane Wong "The Waiting"
That disturbs me with the joy - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Surprised by joy - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"
Strangers in the lush province of joy - Charles Wright "Flannery's Angel"
Higher kilowatts of creeping joy - Jenny Xie "Origin Story"
Her hidden joy - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
The joyful harvest of our tears - A.L.O.E. "Death Is Not Dreadful"
With joyful hearts receive permission - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson
Joyful in their ceremony of clacks and trills - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"
The joyful choir of bells - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
Repeat their joyous, staccato syllables - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
The joyous braiding of sun and rain - Cyrus Cassells "Jasmine"
From the joyous harp of Spring - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"
Vanward squadrons of the joyous storm - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"
On that day of wild joyous wind - Zona Gale "At Least..."
Wakes with its joyous sound the soul of mirth - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"
This night of joyous sounds - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Whirled a joyous tempest down - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"
Welcome wraiths of joyous nights - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"
The joyous zenith and the mute nadir wait - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Uttering joyous leaves - Walt Whitman "I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing"
A joyousness beyond the self - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Joystruck demon of rain - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
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Doubting between joy and pain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Divers rising through leagues of joy - Carl Adamshick "Loss"
The needle of quick joy point truly - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"
How frail are riches and their joys - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Fit for the conjugation of joy - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
Every simple square a shout of joy - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Weave the shrouds of joy and great adventure - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
Joy came as a lark - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Song"
Joy of strife with life's wild fates - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
With joy I view the waking shore - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Which folded Faust in joy elysian - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Orpheus sang to life his buried joy - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Bid these joys farewell - Catherine Barnett "Amor Fati"
Madly flung in liquid notes of purest joy - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
flamed in crimson joy - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Dyes with an Excess of Joy - Aphra Behn "In Imitation of Horace"
All my joys attending - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
Keep on knocking at the gates of joy - Rebecca G. Biber "Heiligenstadt"
And binding with briars my joys - William Blake "The Garden of Love"
A labor of tears, set against joy's undoing - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
A purposeless express of joy - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
My lonely joy in your words - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Joy's goal is but a name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 34"
Brimming with old joys - Geoffrey Brock "And Day Brought Back My Night"
Drain fate's cup of joy - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
Youthful joys too soon decay - Anne Bronte "Consolation"
Though hope may promise joys - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"
When Joy grew mad with awe - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
Fed without the aid of joy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
Woven of human joys and cares - Rupert Brooke "The Dead"
Meet with the smile of joy - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
Where pearls of joy keep bubbling up - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"
With worthy acceptance of pure joy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Heart-broke by new joy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Awake the Heroic of youth from the Hades of joy - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Start abrupt in Joy's sweet neighborhood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Called to be a witness of joy - Witter Bynner "This Man"
My joy of youthful sports - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
When joy's ephemeral beams had fled - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
With all the unuttered joys of bygone days - Frank Oliver Call "The Vision"
Through the holy joys of the azure - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Investments in the provinces of joy - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
This is the joy of the rose - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Not the amplest range of joys - George Spencer Cautley "The Foolish Colt"
This ravaged bosom might subside to peace and joy - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
The golden beads of joy that once were mine - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Where some joy untasted yet awaits - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
Shaken of the joy of giants - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Thin joys, huge pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
While I drank the sound with joy - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"
The golden joys of fancy's dawning - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"
That with the night he may associate joy - Coleridge "The Nightingale"
Joy comes with the morrow - Ina Coolbrith "After the Winter Rain"
becoming the joy to rebuild herself - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Dreams no sunrise joy shall burst - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Joys that soon decay - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
Index misty ways of joy - Nathalia Crane "The History of Honey"
If for a day joy masters me - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Through griefs of joy - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
A silken web of dreams and joys - Olive Custance "Beauty"
Deep, profound joy and menace - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
By the light of his pure joy - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"
Radiance, fragrance, fire and joy - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
While joy gave clouds the light of stars - William H. Davies "The Villain"
The vain gifts and joys which she displays - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Nor is there any joy to match with mine - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Who holds my heart in joy - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
I gathered the joys they left behind - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Mourn not the joys of the lost last year - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Abandon myself to joy - Clarissa Scott Delaney "Joy"
And shouts for joy to nobody - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature VIII: The Bluebird"
Too deep in joy's excess - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VIII. In July"
Climb to Joy's high limit - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Cannot now take hold on joy - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Quickener of earth's joy - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
A pint of joy and a peck of sorrow - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Life"
Joy and a kind of cold beauty - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
What joys accrue to the needy - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"
With joy their sceptres yield - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Where bitter joy can hear - Amelia Earhart "Courage"
Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
Hear the uproar of their joy - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
But joy is with me still - Thomas Dunn English "I Am Your Prisoner"
No joy left in the calendar - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"
Gentle joys and heart-break rue - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
The future time with joy inherit - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
And leave a metal grace, a graven joy - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
What of joy or gladness be my share - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
A new joy everytime [sic] in the telling - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
No joy but lacks salt - Robert Frost "To Earthward"
Too ready to perceive joy's inmost heart of pain - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Where even joy of sorrow speaks - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Faced with joy the lottery of light - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Brighter days and joys to see - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
And shape the thousand joys that never may exist - Thomas Gent "Poems"
No joy inside tears - brian g. gilmore "living for the city (for stevie wonder)"
Trace the secret transits of our joy - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
Scheduled hours of bartered joy - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"
And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"
Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"
Can unlock the gates of joy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
That plucks its joy in the shadow of death's wing - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Allowed a hundred different joys - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"
Be brave when the joy departs - Edgar A. Guest "Let's Be Brave"
Unto the moored fulfilment of your joy - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Who loves our fairest joys to spoil - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Evening Star"
Till my heart drains joy's cup - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Of joys that seem better forgot - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
And joy must surely flower - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Harbingers ushering joy or sorrow - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
Thoughts from joy's branches flew - Hafiz "The Divan XXXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Dancing in a rose of joy - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
Dance the weave of joy and tears - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Dead hopes and faded joys of bright departed years - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Joy prove a more steady guest - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat II"
When fate bereaves life of old joys - F.W. Harvey "The Bond"
The pain which threshes joy - F.W. Harvey "To the Devil on His Appalling Decadence"
With joy unknown, circling round his holy throne - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Joy at arm's length - Anne Hebert "Crown of Happiness"
This full tide of joy effaced - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Where joy had built his thoughtless bower - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"
Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"
The flavor of joy - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
Lured all joy to soar - Margaret Houston "In the Garden"
Dubious and luminous joy - Andrew Hudgins "Blur"
This land where joy is wrong - Langston Hughes "Our Land"
Nor fuel for the clean flame of joy - Langston Hughes "Ruby Brown"
The trellis that hides our joys - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 1 [Thick-flowered is the trellis]"
And in her awful joy repeat - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
And from its Bowl narcotic Joys beguile - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Not for joy the stars burn - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
These transient joys of earth - James Weldon Johnson "A Dream"
Imparting joy, suggesting grief - James Weldon Johnson "A Passing Melody"
With joy to rob the day - James Weldon Johnson "Prayer at Sunrise"
Pain and joy of storm - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"
Burst Joy's grape against his palate - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
The joy that young existence yields - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Unknown hoards of joy - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"
Leave alike both grief and joy - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
Proudly careering his course with joy - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Speaking pain & joy - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Its conquering joy possessed me - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Entomb blind joy in its spell - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
Gathers the ends of joy and pain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Joy within the gates of duty - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"
Less innocent joys and hopes - Henry S. Leigh "Mother"
Joy took me up to the clouds for a holiday - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
That refused the proffer'd joy - Henry S. Leigh "To a Timid Leech"
The sputter and fizz of joy-hissing stars - Hailey Leithauser "Boys of L.A."
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
All joys of soul or sense - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"
Hoards of torn desires, broken joys - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
For nearer joys should pray - Thomas MacDonagh "Wishes for My Son"
That day of joy may never dawn - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
All her joys are new - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring will Come"
Joy sufficient for my life-old thirst - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
And orphaned planets lose the joy of motion - George Martin "Laleet"
As the joy of all the bees in June - John Masefield "King Cole"
Such indirect dark avenues to joy - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Joy was in those fish unknown - John Masefield "The Setting of the Watch"
How joy and anguish intertwine - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"
Joy has rent its chrysalis - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
A joy as cleansing as the wind - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
Gave me all my joy of verse - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
Transfixes joy's brief crown - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
With all its glittering train of joys - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Not without hours of joy - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
The stone joy of being unnoticed - Jim Moore "I Call It Joy"
And joy of that last mile before I reach the sea - William Moore "Expectancy"
Who miss in our immortal joy - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
Venus' soft voice imparting its joy - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (13)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The joys of your beguiling - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"
Showered a million joys - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"
Joy in bread and stone - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Joy in fire and rain - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
With your joy of humble honeycomb - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
While joy and awe are breath - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Battle X. The Last Morning"
Joy in storms and flying suns - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"
With what ageless charge of sorrow and deep joy - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Joy's full measure knew - Meredith Nicholson "My Paddle Gleamed"
Look we still for joys to come - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
The warbling joy of hidden brooks - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"
Mad nightingales of joy - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Keeping them from the darker joys - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Full breath of joy and absence - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Full Breath of Joy and Absence"
With malicious abundant joy - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"
Inside out with joy - Ron Padgett "A New Leaf"
Reckless squander of Joy's hoard - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Joy stayed with me a night - Dorothy Parker "Light of Love"
From every joy that animates this life - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
On settled poles turn solid joys - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
The high road of my joy - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Joy hid from mortal quest - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"
With joy among the leaves - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"
Built of wickedness and joy - Carl Phillips "First Night at Sea"
Scattering joy on every hand - Josephine Pollard "The Send Off"
More substantial than their own joy - Charles Rafferty "Blackbirds"
Racing one another towards joy - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"
When every other source of joy has fled - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
A clown with tatters of a joy - Lynn Riggs "The Cross"
Clasps and keeps in voiceless joy - James Whitcombe Riley "Little David"
Among all tossing joys - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Which joys they must deny - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
Pounced on every joy - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
This curious donkey whose burden was joy - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
In other worlds expect another joy - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Their joy recalls no snake, no sword - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
Our scarce-fledged hopes and blighted joys - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VI"
Joys for which we utter praise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
Aureoles of joy encircle every blade of grass - George William Russell "The Earth Breath"
A thousand joys may foam - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Stalwarts given to the joys of God - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
Carve our sorrows on the face of joy - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Where even joy has a minor strain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: I. The Violin-Maker"
Joy that touches pain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"
Mother of beauty, mother of joy - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
Joy leaps to my throat - May Sarton "Renascence"
All of joy imbibe the dew - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"
Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"
The sense of cool and silver joys - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"
Spectres chasing joy and brightness - Thomas Hall Shastid "The Spectres"
Survive their joy - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Flower That Smiles Today"
Like joy in memory - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Stanzas Written in Dejection"
Know each ancient joy a cup for tears - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Blow upon your pipes of joy - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"
Restored are joys I counted lost - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"
The hours of joy we now inherit - G.B. Singleton "Anacreontic"
In concerts of harmonious joy - William Somerville "The Chase"
Bereft of wildwood joy and song - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
The narrow path of joy - George Sterling "Before Dawn"
Joys unalloyed shall still dwell in your mind - "Summer" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
A terror and wonder whose core was joy - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
That joy and stillness breathed into her heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
That could not tell their too full joy - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Unfold into a receptacle for holding joy - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Found more joy in sorrow - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"
White flying joy - Sara Teasdale "Meadowlarks"
Learn to water joy with tears - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Didn't waste a single crumb of joy - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
Spectral Joy once murdered in a rage - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"
As if joy were always here - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"
Wondrous fountains of joy and youth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
Before the wind of joy - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"
Weary of undesired joys - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"
A trickle of ignored joy - John Updike "Flight to Limbo"
the grateful host for our sorrows and our joys - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Ghosts of vanished joy and pain - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Bright joy amid my stones - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
Joy the seedling of a dream - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
Sing of joy to hearts now breaking - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
Still one joy remains - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
Fanned the abyss for mighty joy - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"
Every sense and scene of joy - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Lead the train of joys withheld - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
Beneath the rain's unlicensed joys - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
A joy which can encompass grief - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
Water of tears with oil of joy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"
Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
They stitch joy to sorrow - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Spring"
Building joy from absolutely nothing - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"
Their accomplished joy - Eliot Khalil Wilson "While Waiting for the Bus"
The joy of absolute abandon - Adolf Wolff "The Call of Sex"
The sap that love distills to joy - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"
The disinherited of joy - Adolf Wolff "Our Lady of Infinite Mercy"
A crumpled shock of joy - Jane Wong "The Waiting"
That disturbs me with the joy - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Surprised by joy - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"
Strangers in the lush province of joy - Charles Wright "Flannery's Angel"
Higher kilowatts of creeping joy - Jenny Xie "Origin Story"
Her hidden joy - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
The joyful harvest of our tears - A.L.O.E. "Death Is Not Dreadful"
With joyful hearts receive permission - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson
Joyful in their ceremony of clacks and trills - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"
The joyful choir of bells - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
Repeat their joyous, staccato syllables - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
The joyous braiding of sun and rain - Cyrus Cassells "Jasmine"
From the joyous harp of Spring - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"
Vanward squadrons of the joyous storm - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"
On that day of wild joyous wind - Zona Gale "At Least..."
Wakes with its joyous sound the soul of mirth - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"
This night of joyous sounds - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Whirled a joyous tempest down - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"
Welcome wraiths of joyous nights - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"
The joyous zenith and the mute nadir wait - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Uttering joyous leaves - Walt Whitman "I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing"
A joyousness beyond the self - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Joystruck demon of rain - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
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