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Potential Titles: Smile

My 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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