Potential Titles: Rapt/Rapture

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Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

And hear the enraptured lark - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

What enraptured hosts burn on the dusky heath - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Call of the Sidhe"

Enraptured birds that flew from deeps of old - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"

Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"

Dance with unmeasured mirth, enraptured - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]


Rapt on ethereal roads of satellites - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"

A pasture of rapt prayer - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

Rapt in strange dreams burns - Walter de la Mare "Music"

Rapt in irradiant reverie - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

All rapt on its wild wandering - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Of the rapt seraph breathing - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

Awake and rapt with grief - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Rapt Isaiah strikes the heavenly lyre - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"

Who measures each chime, in its rapt contemplation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]

My rapt delusion greet - "To the Mocking-Bird"


The rapture of seeing outside space returned - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

One holy dream of rapture - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"

To rest his raptured wings - Cora C. Bass "The Lord Will Provide"

The rapture of ambrosial springs - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Of mild mists and wild raptures - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. VI: Woman"

This luxury of mild mist and wild raptures - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

The buildings splitting in a rapture of foundations - Russell Brakefield "Gate Keeper"

Had rapture on my side - Lucie Brock-Broido "Pamphlet on Ravening"

Could kindle raptures so divine - Anne Bronte "Music on Christmas Morning"

The brown bees reel with rapture - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In an Old Garden"

Half blinded with rapture - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Summer Wooing"

The fragile soul of rapture - Gerald Bullett "Ashes"

A rapture on the lonely shore - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)

The rapture of the strife - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

The old drink for rapture - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

A merry thrush sings hymns of rapture - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"

Rapture to the wearied breast - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"

The rapture of a quiet mind - Benjamin Copeland "Compensation"

We counted on the rapture - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

And on what rapture fed - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Raptures through logs of sound - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"

No more clay but rapture - Jeanne d'Orge "The Cup"

Hummed our grief-soaked lullabies to the rapture - Rita Dove "Transit"

And wander through the fields in raptures sweet - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The rapture of their crowded notes - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"

Shining through the rapture of her dream - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]

Where floods of rapture roll - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Young as its newest rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Half-blinded by its golden rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

The rapture of eager April grace - Arthur Davison Ficke "To a Child--Twenty Years Hence"

Sail through other people's raptures - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"

While my heart in rapture sings - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

A tune of quiet rapture - Gerald Gould "Oxford"

And give to rapture all thy trembling - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The air breathed rapture, and love, and youth - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

Rapture from a land of thorns - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"

Thy very stones in rapture to embrace - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]

Mutual raptures to congenial hearts - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"

And kindling raptures aid him - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

And breathe the soul of rapture - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Some bright hour on rapture's wing - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

A storm-cloud of rapture - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"

A rapture of unmaking - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

The bleeding note of rapture - Helene Johnson "The Road"

rosy cheeks plumped with rapture - Tanque R. Jones "Heaven"

Secret rapture in their breast did glow - Ivan Kozloff "Kiéff" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Beyond the rapture and the dread - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

With it died the rapture and the trust - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Whole volumes of rapture - Trebor Mai "Baby" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

A wind of rapture blew - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"

An unloosened fountain of rapture - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"

The rapture of my alien hills - Theodore Maynard "Fulfilment"

Words of rapture or grief - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"

For rapture of a wine of tears - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"

A small part of the habitat's rapture - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

Reeling before the Rapture - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"

Filled the woods with rapture - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Practicing little gestures of rapture - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"

And then in rapture began to sing - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"

Upon my heart with rapture chained - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

With gleams of rapture perfected - James Whitcombe Riley "Slumber-Song"

That stirred with rapture of delight - Alice Wellington Rollins "Charm"

Mad with rapture, to the portal - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

What giddy raptures fill the brain - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"

All raptures known before were vain - Edward Shanks "The Return"

The rapture of moonlight past - Clark Ashton Smith "The Night Forest"

The rapture of stolen hours - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

The only rapture worthy of the cost - George Sterling "Harp-Song"

Ten dark steps of tangled rapture and tears - Arthur Stringer "Life"

First rapture of our wild, estranging blood - Muriel Stuart "The Father"

Swift rapture and strong - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

For the rapture of storm-spent eyes - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

Tranced in rapture, the day forgets to wane - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Poisoned with raptures in many hues - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Bliss enhanced by rapture of surprise - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"

Uplifted in a rapture of surprise - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"

In rapture and unrest - John Hall Wheelock "Haunted Earth"

Catch glints of rapture from the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Bird Love--Rose Love"

And cease to know the poet's rapture - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

And ghosts of rapture in a ghost of heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"

Drown the vaster voice of rapture or of Hell - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

A button pushed in the rapture of instinctual homing - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"

And all its dizzy raptures - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

In rapture's wildest mood - John Wright "The Maiden Fair"

This song is fugitive in rapture - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"

The Rapture has occurred, but backwards - Audrey Zheng "Adam-Ondi-Ahman"


Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"

The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"

Hushed into a rapturous dream - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

The burden of our rapturous psalm - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"


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