Potential Titles: Laugh

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A foreign laugh overheard - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

Laugh with wounded teeth - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

I was laughing when I died - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"

Ever laugh at the fortunes told - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

The change that a laugh can alone bring about - Ellen Tracy Alden "Lena Laughed"

Laughing cherubs slide down the moonbeams - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Underground in winter, laughing at the storm - William Allingham "The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker"

With the teeth of a laugh - Maya Angelou "I Almost Remember"

Time laughs at History - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Lying mobs of sighs and laughs - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"

Not in scorn do I laugh - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"

Has taken iron into his laugh - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Where wisdom ever laughed at love - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"

The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"

Mermaids laughing off their tantrums - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

Laughs with the wind as it saunters past - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

For the hate of the winds that laugh - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

How bright his golden laugh - Ken Chen "Cruel Cogito"

Laughing like thunder - Billy Collins "Jack"

Laughed in the sun - Hilda Conkling "Two Songs"

And laugh at all the little strife of time - George Crabbe "The Library"

The candles all were laughing - Nathalia Crane "The Chess Game"

Which frost-sprites laughing cast - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"

Your laughing banners now unfold - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Little care I if a rain drop laughs or cries - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

The pileated woodpecker's maniacal laugh - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

Laughing back the startled shadows - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

As the moon leans in close to laugh at me - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"

Through all the hours that laugh - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"

Laugh across the wine - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Laughs at the thunder when it mutters - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Meadow Lark"

Laughing out a happy name - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"

And laugh in innocence of sorcery - Max Eastman "To the Ascending Moon"

We laughed together by the laurel-tree - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Where the loon's loud laugh rings wild and clear - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Born of our laughing streams - Anthony Euwer "Builders of Highways"

And giving death the laugh - Anthony Euwer "The Juggler"

Fire kissed us and laughed - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

Sunshine laughing in her eyes - "Fairy's Album: I. This is Fairy's Album"

If I laughed when the crocodile died - "Father William" [but not the Lewis Carroll version]

With the laughing crowd around me - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Laugh and dream on Lethe's shore - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"

Laughing streams all crystal bright - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

Came in some laughing tongue - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"

15 new reasons for laughs - Nikita Gill "The Meaning of a Day"

Laugh at chaffinch and at primroses - Robert Graves "Not Dead"

And through it blows a laughing word - Katherine Hale " CalvÉ in Blue"

A blackbird laughing in the frozen air - Joy Harjo "Transformations"

And laughing eyes beheld the wheat - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Said Hanrahan"

In the thunder that laughed over Eden - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

The Thunder that laughed over Eden - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

And holds her court beside the laughing sea - Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay "Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke: August, Virgo: The Virgin"

Laughing in all the wrong places - Langston Hughes "Movies"

Loud laughers in the hands of Fate - Langston Hughes "My People"

And laughed against the red - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)

Laughing at the bulk of the need - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

Have come home laughing from the feast for Robert Burns - Mark Jarman "My Parents Have Come Home Laughing"

The strength to keep laughing breaks in a sigh - Mark Jarman "My Parents Have Come Home Laughing"

Through all perils laughed - Elinor Jenkins "Sursum Corda"

Laughing in the face of years - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Good right to laugh in scorn - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"

Laugh with malign, bright eyes - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"

Laughed until it made the teardrops start - Marie L. Johnson "The Snow Man" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Laugh in cynic vein - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"

Jove laughs at the lover's vow - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "The Sport of a God"

Like I laughed at my mother - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

The laugh with silver sound - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the dawn]"

To laugh among all the screams - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

And laugh at dull Eternity - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Who ran to a wild death with laughing feet - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Laughing across the lotus-flowers - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley

Two motes laughing as they leave - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

Laugh, because the pleasure was earned - Sandra Lim "A Walk Round the Park"

Laugh with the wind - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Song of the Sleeper"

Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"

And laughs that they heeded his will - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"

Mixes the laugh of the clown - Edwin Markham "A Cry in the Night"

Love and I laughed down the fates - Don Marquis "Across the Night"

Fantasy laughs and gives chase - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Protect every laugh inside - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

While happy winds go laughing - Claude McKay "Spring in New Hampshire"

Star-dust strewn through the laughing trees - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"

Before the laughing mirror - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Laughs looking at the heavens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

To the high seat of laughing gods - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

And with your warped wit laugh - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

A laugh of hurricaned rice - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A laugh dividing the day in two - Pablo Neruda "Shy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

The blossoms laughed and spoke to me - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Make me laugh over coffee - January Gill O'Neil "In the Company of Women"

Laughs the long eternity away - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"

Leaps to a laughing star - Shaemas OSheel "He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed"

Laughed to scorn the ancient threat of deserts - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Laughing at the sages - Walter S. Percy "Boy"

A laugh sits next to a cry - Willie Perdomo "Let Me Ask You Something"

Nor the bobolink's trill the less laughs - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Out where the sirens laugh - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"

The light of the laughing stars - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"

Laughs like nothing of his footprints - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"

The old man laughed in the thunder - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

The dew laughing in the trees - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Shoot your laugh of rainbow foam - Carl Sandburg "Fins"

Shadow-dance and laugh at the cost - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Laughing in your shallows - Margaret E. Sangster "The River and the Tree"

The luring laugh of Moira - Clinton Scollard "The Wonders"

Laughed as long as they had breath - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

And laugh as we stride the storm - John Campbell Shairp "Cailleach Bein-y-Vreich"

For use only by a zen sun laughing - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"

Pansies, that laugh in every face - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Who laugh and unleash earthquakes - Maurya Simon "Angels"

And it laughs at me as it races on - "A Spring Song" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Each laughing Fay and lithesome Fairy - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Elfin Song"

And laugh in the open blue - Alfred B. Street "The Ausable"

Winter's interment, mourn'd by laughing Spring - Howard V. Sutherland "The Return of the Sun"

With her laughing train of radiant blossoms - Howard V. Sutherland "A Song for the Return of Birds"

Someone else's map of laughing - Pimone Triplett "From Another Other Within, Without"

Where the heath laughed to heaven in robe of green - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

The laugh of the strong - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

Where the green Silence laughed - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Will lie in barns and laugh at the lightning - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

The impartial sun laughs down upon the battle - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"

How I laughed at some one's folly - H.K.W. "The Leaf Prophetic" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.681, 13 Jan. 1877]

And wildly laughs the woodpecker - Mary Webb "Green Rain"

The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

Mirrored a thousand laughing faces - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

In a dress made of laughing glass - Matthew Zapruder "Never Before"


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The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster princes - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"


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