Potential Titles: Smile
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somethingdarkerMy every smile an endless debt - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Where the smiles of love invite - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Harvest your veiled smiles - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ode to Corn"
My teeth bared in a smile of reverent awe - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
A smile of Sarcophagi, Sun-gods, and Madonnas - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
The better for the ripple in your smile - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
And stabs me with a smile - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
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]
Smile translucent as a half-remembered sunset - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
A smile that eats the mouth - Zaina Alsous "On Longing"
A golden sky smiles on the soil's increase - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Smiling in mirth at the mischief she's done - "Annie" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The world smiled and passed by - Matthew Arnold "Written in Emerson's Essays"
The unmasked smile of the lemurs - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
In the smiles of fortune cold - Benjamin West Ball "Concetto"
Read the riddle of the smiling stars - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
Smiling over broken flowers - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
Caesar will listen with a little smile - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
And lean Menelaus is smiling sleet - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Teeth, tendrils, smiles, and silence - Sharang Biswas "What Is a Monster?"
The defeated wisdom of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"
A different smile for each thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
The mobile protection of a smile - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
An unbidden word whitening the death of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
With a smile and words of hope - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
Smiles in cold seclusion - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Smiling to treachery - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 15"
Doses of patience and some Kevlar smiles - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Meet with the smile of joy - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
The shrimp's crooked smile - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"
With strange astonished smiles - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Still smiling as she melted slow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
When its yellow lustre smiled - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
Heaven's gracious radiance smiled - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Smiled straight into the skies - Giosue Carducci "Beatrice" transl. by Frank Sewall
All faces and fair smiles of time - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
With gently smiling jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Crocodile"
The breeze watches it all with her Mona Lisa smile - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Smiles as sour as brine - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
they smile, meaning us - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
A tongue blistered with smiling - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
So you know she is smiling under her mask - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Who were the gods you smiled for? - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Strange smiles and questions - Hilda Conkling "Shiny Brook"
I am weary of nature's smiles - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
To gaze upon their work and smile - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Weary eyes that seldom smiled - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Motherless Child"
Between the dreadful crystal seas and the sky's dreadful smile - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"
Even my smile will be a ghost - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Roses (you feel certain) will only smile - e.e. cummings ???
Smiles through my narrow window way - Alice Turner Curtis "The Lady Moon" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Smile crooked in drunk light - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
There is a smile of bitter scorn - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Smoke clears from her smile - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Which Flora with false smile has clad - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
With smiles obedient to his will's control - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Smiles awake you - Thomas Dekker "A Cradle Song"
Let no pebble smile - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IX: The Test"
Endlessly lifted to the perplexity of your smile - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Discarded my smile but not my teeth - Rita Dove "Incantation of the First Order"
Smiles to rise and doff its fears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
Simple and faithless as a smile - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"
The tyrant's smile may come again - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
For folly's smile or envy's frown - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Down to the fatal shore where sirens smile - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Barren smiles are trained for tragedy - Donald Evans "The Noon of Night"
The trumpet's breath bids ruin smile - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Veil of dead smiles and forgotten tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
And the stars of Greece beheld him smile - Edgar Fawcett "A Vengeance" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Makes a sigh half a smile - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
In his pride smiled a defiance - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Load my rocky smile into a slingshot - Andrea Gibson "What Do You Think About this Weather"
With cinnamon butter and smiles - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
Who receives the first smile of the rising sun - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
A fumbled smile with too many teeth - Lora Gray "We Are All Monsters Here"
Homesick for thy smile - Louise Imogen Guiney "Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore"
When smiles came oftener far than tears - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
The glory of the moon's cold smile - C.R.S. Harris "Sonnet"
Smiling destiny turns back the page - H.C. Harwood "Return"
Think each smile a snare - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
To gild Destruction with a smile - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Desolation wears a smile - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Whose smile wreathes early Morn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"
E'en Nature's smile a bitter mockery wore - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
And bid his smiling day expire - George Moses Horton "Memory"
That smiled away their loving breath - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
With a phantom's cockcrow smile - Aldous Huxley "Mole"
Hopes that had begun to smile - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Their smiles have given me freedom - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
Smile and work in some slight groove - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Apollo's smile upon its current - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"
No tomorrow smiles on the gloomy path - Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler "The Parting Pledge" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
A dish of melon sliced to smiles - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
Smiling under tragedy - Kim Unsong "O Jackie O"
Sleet and silver smiles - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Our dominoes smiled greeting - Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin "Night Was Done" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinksky
A smile as golden as the dawn - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"
On whose wings the dawn hath smiled - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
And with smiling sorrow - Archibald Lampman "The Song of Pan"
With smiles that chill as dusks descend - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"
As one true soul may smile upon another - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
With smiles that mock the wearer - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
The wand of old smiles - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"
As the tigers slip like smiles through the bamboo - Stephen Leggett "Seeing Tigers"
Pleasure and Paraffin, lend us a smile - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
An extra smile or a burst of tears - Henry S. Leigh "In a Hundred Years"
Triumphant smile and tragic eyes - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? - George MacDonald "Baby's Answers" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
That treachery should lurk beneath such smiles - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Wore a smile only I could see - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Queen of smiles and charms - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Before the smile upon the Sphinx was cold - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
A smile that nobody can use - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"
Like a smile from the West - Thomas Moore "She Is Far from the Land"
To touch me with the smile of moon and star - William Moore "Expectancy"
Rubbed the colors from my smile - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"
And even the vile petunia smiled - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
To smile for a light to come - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
A smile to console the snow - Grace Nichols "Kittitian Girl"
Smiled at the thought of Time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Where odds and ends of memory smile - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"
The secrecy our smiles take on - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
Beauty smiled in the arms of Terror - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
And give my smiles for sighs - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"
Smiled at the whirlwind, and defied the blast - Philo "The Tribute"
Whetting the knife that hides in a smile - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
Beguiling all my sad soul into smiling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The heaven above smiles tenderly - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Her glad, bright smile to its depths she sends - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Before the smile of Ceres - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
Turn and smile at their hated reckonings - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Earth owns no smiles in absence - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
The fathomless smile of the sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Si Parva Licet Componere Magnis"
Blush of a Peri that smiles in a dream - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Framed her in a smile of white - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
Smiling in thy dreams - James Whitcombe Riley "Slumber-Song"
Smile at my old white years - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
In smiles of sparkling light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Better by far you should forget and smile - Christina Rossetti "Remember"
Nourished alike by smile and tear - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Remember the practiced smile of the skull - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
The smiling and inhuman stars - George Santayana "Avila"
A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"
Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Planted minions in his smile to reign - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
One smile could sustain me - Analicia Sotelo "Bitch Instinct"
Could sell my smile - Gary Soto "The Mona Lisa"
A heart light as her smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
With the smile of the hawthorn-hedge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"
Because the heavens cease to smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Smiled approval at the finding - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
And in your name Medusa smiled - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Smiles of silver and kisses of gold - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
In a smile the oil of tears - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
As they remember me without smile or moan - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Smiles at all the wrong silences - Yvanna Vien Tica "Rites of Becoming a White Lady"
Smiling into the future - Edwin Torres "I Wanted to Say Hello to the Salseros but My Hair Was a Mess"
The smiling bright light lure over the maw of the abyss - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Go into the smiling country - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
Time smiles at us, and rests his heels - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"
Storms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Until the Suns of Spring have smiled - Charles William Wallace "Life's Philosophy"
The smile of wave and flower - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Charms her eyes to smiling - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"
An April rain of smiles - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Lights his orbit with her silvery smile - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Smiling at fate, when you want to cry - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
In smiling at fate - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
Wanderer moon smiling - William Carlos Williams "Summer Song"
And smiling laid his cup of hemlock down - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
The scornful smile of that ambitious age - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
A sea that could not cease to smile - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"
To smile upon her stars - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
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Where the smiles of love invite - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Harvest your veiled smiles - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ode to Corn"
My teeth bared in a smile of reverent awe - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
A smile of Sarcophagi, Sun-gods, and Madonnas - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
The better for the ripple in your smile - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
And stabs me with a smile - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
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]
Smile translucent as a half-remembered sunset - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
A smile that eats the mouth - Zaina Alsous "On Longing"
A golden sky smiles on the soil's increase - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Smiling in mirth at the mischief she's done - "Annie" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The world smiled and passed by - Matthew Arnold "Written in Emerson's Essays"
The unmasked smile of the lemurs - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
In the smiles of fortune cold - Benjamin West Ball "Concetto"
Read the riddle of the smiling stars - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
Smiling over broken flowers - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
Caesar will listen with a little smile - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
And lean Menelaus is smiling sleet - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Teeth, tendrils, smiles, and silence - Sharang Biswas "What Is a Monster?"
The defeated wisdom of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"
A different smile for each thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
The mobile protection of a smile - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
An unbidden word whitening the death of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
With a smile and words of hope - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
Smiles in cold seclusion - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Smiling to treachery - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 15"
Doses of patience and some Kevlar smiles - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Meet with the smile of joy - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
The shrimp's crooked smile - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"
With strange astonished smiles - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Still smiling as she melted slow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
When its yellow lustre smiled - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
Heaven's gracious radiance smiled - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Smiled straight into the skies - Giosue Carducci "Beatrice" transl. by Frank Sewall
All faces and fair smiles of time - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
With gently smiling jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Crocodile"
The breeze watches it all with her Mona Lisa smile - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Smiles as sour as brine - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
they smile, meaning us - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
A tongue blistered with smiling - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
So you know she is smiling under her mask - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Who were the gods you smiled for? - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Strange smiles and questions - Hilda Conkling "Shiny Brook"
I am weary of nature's smiles - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
To gaze upon their work and smile - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Weary eyes that seldom smiled - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Motherless Child"
Between the dreadful crystal seas and the sky's dreadful smile - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"
Even my smile will be a ghost - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Roses (you feel certain) will only smile - e.e. cummings ???
Smiles through my narrow window way - Alice Turner Curtis "The Lady Moon" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Smile crooked in drunk light - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
There is a smile of bitter scorn - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Smoke clears from her smile - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Which Flora with false smile has clad - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
With smiles obedient to his will's control - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Smiles awake you - Thomas Dekker "A Cradle Song"
Let no pebble smile - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IX: The Test"
Endlessly lifted to the perplexity of your smile - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Discarded my smile but not my teeth - Rita Dove "Incantation of the First Order"
Smiles to rise and doff its fears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
Simple and faithless as a smile - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"
The tyrant's smile may come again - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
For folly's smile or envy's frown - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Down to the fatal shore where sirens smile - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Barren smiles are trained for tragedy - Donald Evans "The Noon of Night"
The trumpet's breath bids ruin smile - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Veil of dead smiles and forgotten tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
And the stars of Greece beheld him smile - Edgar Fawcett "A Vengeance" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Makes a sigh half a smile - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
In his pride smiled a defiance - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Load my rocky smile into a slingshot - Andrea Gibson "What Do You Think About this Weather"
With cinnamon butter and smiles - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
Who receives the first smile of the rising sun - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
A fumbled smile with too many teeth - Lora Gray "We Are All Monsters Here"
Homesick for thy smile - Louise Imogen Guiney "Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore"
When smiles came oftener far than tears - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
The glory of the moon's cold smile - C.R.S. Harris "Sonnet"
Smiling destiny turns back the page - H.C. Harwood "Return"
Think each smile a snare - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
To gild Destruction with a smile - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Desolation wears a smile - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Whose smile wreathes early Morn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"
E'en Nature's smile a bitter mockery wore - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
And bid his smiling day expire - George Moses Horton "Memory"
That smiled away their loving breath - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
With a phantom's cockcrow smile - Aldous Huxley "Mole"
Hopes that had begun to smile - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Their smiles have given me freedom - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
Smile and work in some slight groove - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Apollo's smile upon its current - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"
No tomorrow smiles on the gloomy path - Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler "The Parting Pledge" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
A dish of melon sliced to smiles - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
Smiling under tragedy - Kim Unsong "O Jackie O"
Sleet and silver smiles - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Our dominoes smiled greeting - Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin "Night Was Done" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinksky
A smile as golden as the dawn - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"
On whose wings the dawn hath smiled - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
And with smiling sorrow - Archibald Lampman "The Song of Pan"
With smiles that chill as dusks descend - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"
As one true soul may smile upon another - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
With smiles that mock the wearer - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
The wand of old smiles - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"
As the tigers slip like smiles through the bamboo - Stephen Leggett "Seeing Tigers"
Pleasure and Paraffin, lend us a smile - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
An extra smile or a burst of tears - Henry S. Leigh "In a Hundred Years"
Triumphant smile and tragic eyes - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? - George MacDonald "Baby's Answers" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
That treachery should lurk beneath such smiles - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Wore a smile only I could see - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Queen of smiles and charms - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Before the smile upon the Sphinx was cold - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
A smile that nobody can use - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"
Like a smile from the West - Thomas Moore "She Is Far from the Land"
To touch me with the smile of moon and star - William Moore "Expectancy"
Rubbed the colors from my smile - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"
And even the vile petunia smiled - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
To smile for a light to come - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
A smile to console the snow - Grace Nichols "Kittitian Girl"
Smiled at the thought of Time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Where odds and ends of memory smile - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"
The secrecy our smiles take on - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
Beauty smiled in the arms of Terror - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
And give my smiles for sighs - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"
Smiled at the whirlwind, and defied the blast - Philo "The Tribute"
Whetting the knife that hides in a smile - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
Beguiling all my sad soul into smiling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The heaven above smiles tenderly - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Her glad, bright smile to its depths she sends - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Before the smile of Ceres - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
Turn and smile at their hated reckonings - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Earth owns no smiles in absence - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
The fathomless smile of the sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Si Parva Licet Componere Magnis"
Blush of a Peri that smiles in a dream - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Framed her in a smile of white - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
Smiling in thy dreams - James Whitcombe Riley "Slumber-Song"
Smile at my old white years - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
In smiles of sparkling light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Better by far you should forget and smile - Christina Rossetti "Remember"
Nourished alike by smile and tear - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Remember the practiced smile of the skull - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
The smiling and inhuman stars - George Santayana "Avila"
A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"
Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Planted minions in his smile to reign - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
One smile could sustain me - Analicia Sotelo "Bitch Instinct"
Could sell my smile - Gary Soto "The Mona Lisa"
A heart light as her smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
With the smile of the hawthorn-hedge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"
Because the heavens cease to smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Smiled approval at the finding - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
And in your name Medusa smiled - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Smiles of silver and kisses of gold - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
In a smile the oil of tears - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
As they remember me without smile or moan - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Smiles at all the wrong silences - Yvanna Vien Tica "Rites of Becoming a White Lady"
Smiling into the future - Edwin Torres "I Wanted to Say Hello to the Salseros but My Hair Was a Mess"
The smiling bright light lure over the maw of the abyss - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Go into the smiling country - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
Time smiles at us, and rests his heels - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"
Storms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Until the Suns of Spring have smiled - Charles William Wallace "Life's Philosophy"
The smile of wave and flower - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Charms her eyes to smiling - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"
An April rain of smiles - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Lights his orbit with her silvery smile - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Smiling at fate, when you want to cry - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
In smiling at fate - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
Wanderer moon smiling - William Carlos Williams "Summer Song"
And smiling laid his cup of hemlock down - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
The scornful smile of that ambitious age - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
A sea that could not cease to smile - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"
To smile upon her stars - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
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