Potential Titles: Laugh
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somethingdarkerA 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"
A laughing, joyous sprite who smiles from dawn to dark - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Laughing aloud at the thistle she blows - "Annie" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
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"
A laugh that escapes you and deflates you - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
He who laughs at others' woes - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
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"
For Freedom laughs at prison bars - Ralph Chaplin "I.W.W. Prison Song"
Somewhere the dawn breaks laughing - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Reveille"
Will shout their doom at last to a laughing star - Ralph Chaplin "The Warrior Wind"
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"
Laught in the diamond air - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Master Singer"
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"
Laughing hours, steeped in gold - Beulah Field "To June"
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"
The summer laugh at winter-tide - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
15 new reasons for laughs - Nikita Gill "The Meaning of a Day"
Laugh henceforth at debt and dun - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
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]"
An inconstant April laughing into May - T.M. Kettle "Dreams and Duty"
To laugh among all the screams - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"
And laugh at dull Eternity - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Laughed in irony of sheer despair - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
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"
And echo accents of the laugh divine - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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 from the lips of a dream - Sarojini Naidu "Palanquin Bearers"
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"
Could win by jest those lips to laughing - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
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]
laughing as he changed the lyrics about Pancho Villa - ire'ne lara silva "me llamo viento"
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 at last laugh in wonder - Wang An-Shih "Visiting River-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
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]
We rise up laughing with the light - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
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"
Laughter.
The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster princes - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
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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"
A laughing, joyous sprite who smiles from dawn to dark - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Laughing aloud at the thistle she blows - "Annie" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
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"
A laugh that escapes you and deflates you - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
He who laughs at others' woes - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
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"
For Freedom laughs at prison bars - Ralph Chaplin "I.W.W. Prison Song"
Somewhere the dawn breaks laughing - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Reveille"
Will shout their doom at last to a laughing star - Ralph Chaplin "The Warrior Wind"
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"
Laught in the diamond air - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Master Singer"
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"
Laughing hours, steeped in gold - Beulah Field "To June"
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"
The summer laugh at winter-tide - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
15 new reasons for laughs - Nikita Gill "The Meaning of a Day"
Laugh henceforth at debt and dun - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
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]"
An inconstant April laughing into May - T.M. Kettle "Dreams and Duty"
To laugh among all the screams - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"
And laugh at dull Eternity - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Laughed in irony of sheer despair - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
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"
And echo accents of the laugh divine - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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 from the lips of a dream - Sarojini Naidu "Palanquin Bearers"
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"
Could win by jest those lips to laughing - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
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]
laughing as he changed the lyrics about Pancho Villa - ire'ne lara silva "me llamo viento"
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 at last laugh in wonder - Wang An-Shih "Visiting River-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
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]
We rise up laughing with the light - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
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"
Laughter.
The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster princes - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
Navigation Links:
Go to L word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
