Potential Titles: Bitter/Bitterness

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Stuffed with something bitter - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Winter sunshine cheered the bitter sky - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

Your vampire of bitterness - Delmira Agustini "The Vampire" (translated by Alejandro Caceres)

The bitter pennies that I saved - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Season of snows and bitter rain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Had poured him a bitter grief - Anna Akhmatova [Untitled] transl. by Robert Tracy

Same bitter origin - Francisco X. Alarcon "Sal de la Tierra/Salt of the Earth"

At the gates of a bitter hell - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

bitter oranges unafraid of cosmic dust - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"

A reason his love tastes bitter - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"

On that same spot the bitterest rue and wormwood - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXII: Unhappy Bride" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Gather wormwood into boiling water press its bitters - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Kissing a bitter mouth - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The ways to see and be an angel"

The bitter symbiosis of couples - Rae Armantrout "Two, Three"

And unite with your bitter love - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (2)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Warm, sugar sweet, and wormwood bitter - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"

Appeasement turned bitter - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"

Every flower brings bitter meed - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

Urged some bitter secret - Djuna Barnes "From Fifth Avenue Up"

earned through bitterness of need - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Sweet and bitter waters - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"

Memory of the bitter flood - Charles Baudelaire "The Eyes of Beauty" transl. not credited

Beneath the bitter tooth accursed - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

Only the bitterness of harvest wind - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"

larvae ravening the bitter vine - Amy Beeder "My Poisonous Cousin the Pipevine Swallowtail"

To wipe the bitter tear from Sorrow's eye - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Pour your rain on the bitter tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"

Give us drink for our bitter thirst - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

A fog that came like bitter smoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

The cry of the bitter clay to the God who devised it carrion - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

Wavering on the sudden brink of jaded bitterness - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Orrick Johns"

And feed on bitter fruit - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"

A wild bird riding the wind and screaming bitterly - Arna Bontemps "Homing"

The stones have scored you bitterly - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

More blithe than bitter - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"

With broken hopes and bitter fears - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "The Trail of Tears"

Bitter partings at its gate - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"

Very bitter with the ashes - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

A cry of bitter dead men - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"

Ruined by an ever-bitter extremity - Jericho Brown "Of the Swan"

The bitterness of days like these - Sterling A. Brown "Salutamus"

What if the bread be bitter - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"

Oblivion of my bitterness - Gerald Bullett "Rest"

What depth of bitterness is ours - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Heart-Throbs"

That must contend to the dark and bitter end - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

From all the bitter corners of the earth - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

To drink this last and bitter cup - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

Rouses the bitter armies of the cold - W. Wilfred Campbell "September in the Laurentian Hills"

That bitter hour drained the life from me - Ethna Carbery "The Love-Talker"

Somewhere on the bitter tide - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"

Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Rising to greet the bitter air - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

Bitter was the bread of song - Willa Cather "The Poor Minstrel"

To taste our bitterest woe - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

The bitter root of love - Jennifer Chang "Episteme 12"

Abundant bitterness - Jennifer Chang "A Horse Named Never"

The bitter truth about your deeds - May Chong "Catering"

How many a bitter blast - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

dry mornings and bitter nights - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"

To style it the religious bitter - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

My wind is turned to bitter north - Arthur Hugh Clough "A Song of Autumn"

With the measures of a bitter song - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

For the dust blows bitterly - Arthur Colton "Arcadie. I"

Never dreamed of the bitter end - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

Ere I wore proud chains of diamonds, forged of bitter, frozen tears - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

Why do I shrink to own the bitter truth? - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"

Bitter drop in bloom and sweet - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"

Its wages and its bitter bread - Susan Coolidge "When Love Went"

Eat from every plant except for the bitter one - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

You can harvest the bitter tomato - "Counsel to a Bridegroom" transl. from Mandinka by Bala Saho

Bitter outtakes from tar - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

Or is the truth bitter as eaten fire? - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Stern stands and bitter runs for glory - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

In all drink he detected the bitter - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

And drink, themselves, the bitter cup they mix - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

A well drained bitter by the sky - Countee Cullen "In Memory of Col. Charles Young"

All bitter yesterdays I knew - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"

How strangely cold these few yet bitter words - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"

This bitter power of song - H.D. "Cassandra"

These ripe pears are bitter to the taste - H.D. "The Gift"

Your coaxing will only make a bitter fruit - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Set some seal on my bitter heart - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

Chewing bitter rowanberries - Krystyna Dąbrowska "Confession" transl. by Karen Kovacik

The bitter smart of sorrow - T.A. Daly "To a Robin"

Makes bitter poison into sweet - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"

Bitter with remembrance of the spring - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"

There is a smile of bitter scorn - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

To the bitter border of divorce - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver"

The bitter taste of your commanding - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

Of unforgottenness a bitter draught - Walter de la Mare "The Revenant"

All her sorrows, bitter rue - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

Tears of an antique bitterness - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

A sip of coffee before I knew bitter - Monica de la Torre "Equivalences"

My heart is broken down with bitter pain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Bitter as raw olives - Diane DeCillis "Milk"

Bitter contested farthings - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

My long wound, my bitter sorrow - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Until the battlefields bittered our pollen - Tarik Dobbs "Mad Honey"

Your bitter lot shall be - James B. Dollard "The Soul of Karnaghan Buidhe"

Preempted by three bitter decades - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"

Skies of snow and bitter air - Edward Dowden "Burdens"

Unallied to bitter things or barren - Edward Dowden "In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos"

Utter bitterness shall be your wage - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

'Tis bitter thus to lose thee - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Farewell"

Landing on its bitter brilliance - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"

Where bitter joy can hear - Amelia Earhart "Courage"

Laudanum by the bitter spoonful - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

Taste the bitter draught of woe - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

With a bitter lantern in her hand - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"

The light of change is bitter - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"

With bolder passion the bitter day endowed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Heaved beneath the bitter blast - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous

Through dull years of bitter silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Many bitter winters of defeat - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Bitter for remembrance of the healing - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

And some shall cry with bitter pain - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

Change their sweets to bitter burning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

The sweet of bitter bark and burning clove - Robert Frost "To Earthward"

The dark and bitter flow of grief - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Respect even its bitter portion - Tess Gallagher "Black Pudding"

A curse too bitter and wild for the broken heart - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Salvaging among the tideline's bitter gleanings - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"

All things sweet and bitter meet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"

Boasting and bitter taunt - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Too full of bitter memories - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

A bitter fruit for us to share - Carmen Gimenez "Beasts"

No taste more bitter nor truer - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

Dull, bitter light - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"

Bitter, blinding, binding words - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

A bitter brew mixed with my own hand - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"

we consume the bitter dream particles - Layla Azmi Goushey "Dream Particles"

A bitter breeze unkind - Ivor Gurney "Omens"

Draw out of memory all bitterness - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"

All without bitterness - Hadewijch of Brabant "My Best Success"

Medicine is bitter and hard to swallow - Han-Shan "[So Han-shan writes you these words]" transl. by Burton Watson

The sweet and bitter gods who walk beside us - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"

Words that sting like bitter limes - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"

The first bite is neither sweet nor bitter - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

When bitterness spills from the morning new - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

So sweet and bitter fancy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"

Ripe to be harvested for bitter need - F.W. Harvey "Harvest Home"

Through the bitter wells of woe - Frances Ridley Havergal "Springs of Peace"

Naked under bitter lichens - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

The bitter tear-drop of despair - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

The bitter cup have shared - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The nurture of our bitter sky - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Bitter be thy chain - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"

Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"

Trailed its bitter breath over the desert - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

Bitter black it falls between - Francis Hill "Rich Man, Poor Man"

The fruit of the vine bitter and premature - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Which embittered every cup - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

In despair to reckon up the bitter cost - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

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]

Bitter for want of weeping - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"

And bitterly hang on the flowerless air - Richard Hughes "The Image"

Bitter laughter and bitter tears - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 2 [Men of a certain age]"

Shared our scanty meal in bitterness or glee - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

the bitter tang of the dream he'll become - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

Bright and bitter geometry - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Place Your Bets"

Drink from the thrice bitter bowl - James Weldon Johnson "Miserable"

Memory's bitter blight - James Weldon Johnson "Morning, Noon and Night"

Remorse declares that bitter state - Lionel Johnson "Experience"

This bit of sun bittered earth - Fred L. Joiner "Below as Above"

Drinks anguish without ruling it bitter - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"

we are those tough bitter stems and pits - Tanque R. Jones "Chitterlings and Collard Greens"

Bitter tribute wrong from hearts of woe - Sir Nizamat Jung "VIII: The Heart of Love"

Wrestling with the bitter cold - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Each butte and bitter lake - Donika Kelly "Santa Rosa"

Long in bitterness to reach the goal - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

A cold and bitter consciousness - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

The bitterest tears we shed - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Where the bitter barbs of frost have been - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Ginger and bitter roots growing at her ankles - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

The Cup with sweet or bitter run - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Bitter tides of sorrow roll - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

With all that bitter agony of soul - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

No word more bitter than sweet honey - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Wine more bitter than the taste of gall - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

As lurks a bitter sting in honeyed words - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

And every brooded bitterness - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"

The hours slip bitterly over - Archibald Lampman "One Day"

And water it with bitter tears - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"

Only bitter broken sand - Archibald Lampman "What Do Poets Want with Gold?"

A snake in supreme bitterness - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Bitter-stinging white world - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"

Among the stones of the bitter sea - D.H. Lawrence "St John"

And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

As bitters over dulcet sins - Richard Le Gallienne "The Decadent to His Soul"

Your acids and bitters - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"

That casts a bitter shadow into the waters - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

With sighs and bitter tears invoked - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend

With stabbing wounds of bitter sound - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Through bitterest toil you follow me - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

Fling these bitter drops to the wild swans - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

Climbing bitterly the stranger's stairs - Vachel Lindsay "Dante"

Bitter dreams of enigma and night - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The bitter blows of truth - Amy Lowell "The End"

Through the wan twilight of that bitter day - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

The bitter wind of doubt has blown - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Check the items in the bitter list - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Which once had quenched my bitter thirst - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

And swept with bitter rain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Homesteader"

All bane of life and bitter - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

Sought in the bitter wind - Dorothea Mackellar "Pilgrim Song"

All the bitter ruin and wreck of us - Fiona MacLeod "The Prayer of Women"

My lament in bitterness outpoured - James Clarence Mangan "The Fair Hills of Eire, O!"

With bitter dew and star dust - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"

Iron ice bound all the bitter seas - Don Marquis "Dickens"

More bitter than the depths of Acheron - George Martin "1881"

Burning curse and bitter bane - George Martin "Marguerite"

Jaws that dripped with bitter fire - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Beside your bitter waters rise - Theodore Maynard "Ireland"

In the wind and bitter rain - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"

Against our day of bitter scorn - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"

In time of bitter fear - John McCrae "The Anxious Dead"

Bitter orange and almond milk - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Feeds me bread of bitterness - Claude McKay "America"

With nights of unabating bitterness - Claude McKay "Rest in Peace"

Through all the sullen, bitter years - Louis J. McQuilland "The Country of the Young"

Bitter root not allowed to stretch - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

Bitter gale and dripping wrack - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"

Of bitter memory that stings and glows - Adam Mickiewicz "The Grave of Countess Potocka" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

In the blue and bitter fall - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"

Drink the bitter sea - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"

And a bitter word - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Souvenir"

The small, bitter hawks of grief - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

To turn the heart to bitter gall - "The Misanthrope"

Fruit as bitter as the Dead Sea's - "The Misanthrope"

Quaffs years of bitter breath - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Revived bitterness - Marianne Moore "The Past Is the Present"

And struggle with a bitter fate - Morna "Ianthe"

By herbless sand and bitter pool - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"

Some bitter speech in my mouth - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"

Bitter, unreasoning, sarcastic jeers - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

Taste the bitter apple - Marilyn Nelson "Bitter Apple"

A crushed and bitter bowl - Pablo Neruda "Almeria" translated by Richard Schaaf

Bitter and magic history - Pablo Neruda "Ancient History" transl. by Miguel Argarin

Like the fish of a bitter fountain - Pablo Neruda "Battle of the Jarama River" translated by Richard Schaaf

The bitter wheat of your people - Pablo Neruda "Battle of the Jarama River" translated by Richard Schaaf

Returning an empty dream to a bitter pasture - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A cup of bitter air between - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Bitter family of the trembling night - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Dew with its bitter greetings - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

A hollow in the heart of the bitter jungle - Pablo Neruda "Death in the World" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A bitter sky of soaked metal - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

That bitter curtain going up - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid

Like bitter trees that bury you - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid

A bitter but desperate certainty - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

The throbbing and the scintillations of the bitter sea - Pablo Neruda "The Sea and the Love of Quevado" transl. by Teresa Anderson

The last bitter drops of sobbing - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

With utensils bitter to excess - Pablo Neruda "There Is No Oblivion (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The blue and bitter rhythm of breathing - Pablo Neruda "Tides" transl. by Alastair Reid

Broken glass fallen in a bitter street - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Dressed in gray and bitter sounds - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin

Made of linked and bitter leaves - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

Rivers of bitter certainty - Pablo Neruda 100 Love Sonnets LIV (trans. by Stephen Tapscott)

She worked the bitter charm - E. Nesbit "Death"

Ended this bitter journey - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VI. The Full Heart"

By bitter winds o'erblown - Meredith Nicholson "Where Love Was Not"

Taste the bitter juice of roses - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"

A bitter wind that scourges us - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

Desolate, bereft by bitter fate - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson

Let the bitterness sink to the bottom - January Gill O'Neil "In the Company of Women"

The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"

An ancient bitter nod - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Profaned and swollen by bitter waters - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

Than death itself more bitter - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Bitter bread when the world was bare - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

Bitter bamboo growing all around my house - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

As much embittered with poverty - Ezra Pound "To Dives"

Tasting the bitter syllables of their history - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Great Migration"

The bitter bread of grief - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Our Daily Bread"

Through bitterest inward strife - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"

Now sweeter for a bitter past - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"

Through bitterest inward strife - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"

Found bitter drops in every cup - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

By frost and sun and bitter brine - Theodore H. Rand "Tennyson Rock"

The boom of the bitter bell - Cale Young Rice "Love in Japan"

Into a bitter-chocolate vein - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

The savor of bitter waters - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

A bitter wine out of the bloody stills of the world - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Bitter healing at the roots of seas - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"

On my board are bitter apples - Lola Ridge "To the American People"

The world's bitter leaven - Lola Ridge "A Toast"

With the bitter twist of ingrown laughter - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

No bitterer than the shrunk grape - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

When the last bitterness was past - Rennell Rodd "Actea"

Plucked bitterest fruit to give - Christina Rossetti "Eve"

Every bitter wind of heaven - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Colored with bitter wrongs - Carl Sandburg "Lawyers"

Dust and a bitter wind - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

As if the dregs were bitter - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Ancient wisdom like the bitterness of stars - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Leaving us little but bitter ashes - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

Imperishable blue this bitter sky - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

Of bitter and of sweet the fullest store - Clinton Scollard "A Symphony of the Sea (Gloze Royal)"

Floundering forever in bitterness - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Can take no bitter leaving - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"

And the bitter aroma of herbs - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

Trying to salvage the bitter roots - Prageeta Sharma "What Happened at the Service?"

On the bitter roads of France - Virna Sheard "Crosses"

The urn of bitter prophecy - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Hellas"

Here the grapes are bitter - Dora Sigerson Shorter "My Neighbour's Garden"

The plums could have been less bitter - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

Just as the bitter wind - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Vole in Winter"

As at the bitter night of hell - Paulus Silentarius "241. ["Farewell" is on my tongue]" (translated by William Roger Paton)

Blinded by bitter wind - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Dies, or Doesn't"

Beneath the sumac, yarrow, and bitter water - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Bitter dreams I bring - Clark Ashton Smith "Song"

The bleak and bitter spell - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

Sorrow's storm with bitter breath - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

An accident away from being bitter - Richard Solomon "By Subtraction -- I Tego Arcana Dei"

From the bitter wind gets grief - "A Song of Winter" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Those cold qualms and bitter pangs - Robert Southwell "Upon the Image of Death"

Drowning in dreams as bitter and as deep - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"

Mellowed with bitter and sweet words - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"

The grief from sorrow's bitter cup - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"

Real as a bitter orange - A.E. Stallings "Sublunary"

A pleasant draught of bitter hyssop - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

By the bitter years withdrawn - George Sterling "At the Lily's Heart"

With tears of bitter light - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"

To the twilight of the bitter sands - George Sterling "Betrayal"

They sow a bitter grain - George Sterling "Safe"

Draining the bitter oceans - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"

Is bitter with our love's delay - George Sterling "Until Thou Comest"

The night more bitter cold will bring - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

The bitter wind has banished the silent nightingale - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"

Long after bitter chills - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"

Have drunk deep of the well of bitterness - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"

The little Dust blown from their bitter mouths - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

The bitter thing that treachery is - Muriel Stuart "Shrift"

My fears, in bitterness and sorrow, void of tears - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"

Bitterer than a soundless tear - Algernon Swinburne "A Baby's Death"

The bitter taste ensuing on the sweet - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

If such sweet and bitter things be done - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Hunting for the bitter drop - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"

The bitterness both of Substance and Shadow - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley

Now when the bitter truth is learned - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Bitter and certain of our ideas - Keith Taylor "In Spite of Myself"

Dissolve my bitter attachments - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"

My heart in bitterness bled - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"

That no bitterness can bend - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"

For beauty more than bitterness - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"

A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"

The bitter old and wrinkled truth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The very spring breathes bitter breath - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IV. The Journey"

A dominant bitterness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Salad of Sorts"

When that cry of bitter stress woke the hills - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

And all the train of bitter ghosts adore - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"

Chewing the bitter ashes - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"

Gone was the bitter day - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"

And all the bitter banners furled - Louis Untermeyer "At Kennebunkport"

The bitter creeping plant of discontent - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

And a bitter store of arid sarcasms - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

Sickness, scorn, and bitterness to taste - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Medicine of bitterness - Derek Walcott "Dark August"

And only bitter land was washed away - Margaret Walker "Childhood"

With biting bitterness of mind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"

Nor bitter irony a truth foreshows - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

Stands face to face with bitter Truth - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"

And leave no gifts but bitterness - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

Drink the lees of bitter wine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Philosopher"

Rest from all bitter thoughts - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Lift your flowers on bitter stems - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"

Turn bitter in the end - William Carlos Williams "Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"

Against treacherous bitterness of wind - William Carlos Williams "March"

The sky has given over its bitterness - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"

The bitter horizontals of a north wind - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

The bitterness buried itself in my tongue - Tanaya Winder "Becoming a Ghost"

Because the flowers of life are bitter - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"

The same odd taste of bitterness and terror - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Lullaby"

Bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

And tasted bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

A bright core to bitter black pain - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"

Then their water shall be made bitter - "XIII: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of Huexotzinco" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Who made you bitter made you wise - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea"

Time's bitter flood - W.B. Yeats "The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends"

Crowded with bitter faces - W.B. Yeats "The Travail of Passion"

Cure the bitter fruit in brine - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

In bitter London's heart of stone - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"

Of wine with bitter hemlock steep'd - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Awaken to frozen days and bitter nights - Francis Brett Young "Winter Sunset"

Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"

Come dancing bitter city - Matthew Zapruder "Thank You for Being You"

Stirring the bitter taste of solitude - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Bitter words swallowed - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Grace"


Sitting there so bitter-bright - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"


Bordering on cool but tinged with bitter-green - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"


Bittersweet.


The sad tear may embitter the wine - R. Penn Smith "A Health to My Brother"


A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"


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