Potential Titles: Cry/Cries

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Crying its separate pain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

The cry of a stork landing on the roof - Anna Akhmatova [Untitled] transl. Richard McKane

I'd give the world if I might but cry - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"

That cries to the old joke moon - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The same sad rooks awake their mocking cries - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]

Waiting for the cries of cousins - Lou Barrett "Red Lunch Basket"

The swift wild cry of the scornful ember - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"

Made rivers part and mountains cry - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"

A shout cried by a thousand sentinels - Charles Baudelaire "The Beams" transl. not credited

The tamed element which revolts in cries - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

All the stars of hell are crying loud - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"

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

And the lost horns of the taxis cry - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

Heard the Angel-trumpets cry - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"

Cry the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

Start crying down the wrath of Baal - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

The hushed air tense as a cry - Eloise Briton "The Acrobat"

Voices to feeble to utter a cry - Vera M. Brittain "Vengeance Is Mine"

The cry of waters where the snow was white - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

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

Whose tongues learn first to cry - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

The words I hear in the curlew's cry - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Regret"

The universe's inward voices cry - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"

Crying at the threshold - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"

Stuck in a hell of strangers crying - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"

Cry of the palms and the purple moons - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Awoke with crash and cry - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

Where death comes to cry - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

The crying wind and the lonesome hush - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

Maddening doubts born from the demon cry - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

His critic friends had surely cried - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"

Cry a brotherhood of hearts - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"

Never would cry my songs to sell - Adelaide Crapsey "The Vendor's Song"

Sea-birds that cry discords - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

Adds the sharp thunder of his cry - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

My soul is crying out the deep confusion - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Cleaving the skies with an echoing cry - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Crying his sorceries shrill and clear - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

Little care I if a rain drop laughs or cries - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

Without the cries of blackbirds overhead - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

Have cried openly at the newborn color - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Lone deserts echo our exiles' cry - James B. Dollard "The Sons of Patrick"

The shrill short crying of the sea-lark - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

A clear cry at daybreak - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

All my lips' empty crying - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"

Cry for the pathless spaces - Edward Dowden "A Song of the New Day"

One lone cry of sorrow - Edward Dowden "Where Wert Thou?"

Hoarse with crying gospels in the street - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

The cry of the fallen recalling me - A.E. "Love"

In the space of crying - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"

Cries a voice that still commands - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"

The voices of mermaids crying from the sea - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Cries in a haunted brothel - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"

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

The cries of those who vanish - Carolyn Forche "San Onofre, California"

Though anger loud for vengeance cries - "Forgive the Wrong" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

A brother's blood cries for vengeance - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Echo mocks the cuckoo's cry - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Shepherd of Cwmdyli" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Whenever I spend the day crying - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Old couch that cries in coins - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"

Cry to the stars that love rides by - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

The message implied in howl and cry - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Autumn crickets sound their willful cries - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

The cry of one who fears not death - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"

And tortured trumpets crying - F.W. Harvey "Kossovo Day"

My love's despairing cry filled hell with melody - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Eurydice"

A call above the spell of love, a crying and a need - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

The sparrow passing thither at the falcon's luring cry - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

The sobs and cries of midnight storms - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"

The harsh cries of the peacocks - William Dean Howells "The Pilot's Story"

To catch a rainbow cry - Langston Hughes "In Time of Silver Rain"

Lighter than the bat's shrill cry - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"

Their cries in lonely monotone - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

With the crying blood of millions - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

The echo of the stifled cry - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"

A cry stretching beyond its range - Jenny Johnson "Aria"

Crying from roseless lands - Lionel Johnson "In England"

Room for your cry in my mouth - Saeed Jones "Nocturne: Beheaded"

Narcissus cries and Echo answers - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "April"

In the crow's plummeting cry - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Courage that cries out at night - June Jordan "Oughta Be a Woman"

Cry unto the night their battle-name - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

Herald lightning and the crane's shrill cry - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Not a single anguished cry of it remains - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

From the Tower of Darkness cries - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Grace of your memory cry - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"

The pewit's cry only makes deeper nature's rest - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

If language can be a kind of crying - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

The act of crying was a privilege - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

Listening to the magic cry - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"

The cry and drift of feet - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"

Cries of echoing strife and scorn - Emily Lawless "Afterword"

The cry of the exiles of Babylon - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Through still, soft air that cry is yet prolonged - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"

The depths of the jungle re-echo their cry - Henry S. Leigh "Lays of Many Lands No. I: Cossimbazar"

Cry like a peacock - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"

Cry for the bars that encage me - Amy Levy "Captivity"

To cry more than the sky - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"

Where your cry echoes off the hill - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "curlew"

Turn away and leave it crying on the doorstep - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Cry to aspirations that would die - Edwin Markham "Music"

The stones cry from the walls - Edwin Markham "To High-born Poets"

Sorrow that cries like a tide - Jeannette Marks "The Nest"

Should one thought cry against me - Jeannette Marks "Your Sunlit Way"

And hounds broke into cry - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

In the desert of despair I cried - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

As the cries of the rainy cranes - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

The burden of his cry - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Then the cry that knows not law - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

If all the leaves my name could cry - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Sailors crying through the storm - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

No wonder I cry glass tears - Claire Millikin "Seven Stops"

Heard the cry subside in vacant skies - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

But who cried out nobody would tell - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Harsh cries of startled beasts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

The gray cry of sea birds - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

Dust cries to the unregarding dust - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Of wind knotted with cries - Naomi Shihab Nye "Almost, Never"

Faint rings the parrot's cry - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

Crying into the dappled sea - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

The cranes crying out in the high clouds - Mary Oliver "Her Grave"

Crying and calling to me out of the trees - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"

Who will hush that cry outside the doors - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

A laugh sits next to a cry - Willie Perdomo "Let Me Ask You Something"

A kind of crying which sealed me to such realms - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

The mournful cry of monkeys - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Cries protest to the judges - Alexander Posey "The Fall of the Redskin"

Where the nightshade trumpets cry slow - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

And cry fierce answers to the angry sky - Adelaide Anne Proctor "The Storm"

Joined my cry to the striving soil - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"

Cry beneath the majesty of 70,000 stars - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

In the trail of their haunting cry - Herbert Randall "Outside"

Each cry dissolves into the next grown louder - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"

Tall crying in the willow reeds - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

The creak of broken rushes and the last snipe's cry - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"

Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

The stone cried out for vengeance - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"

A madness grew into thundered battle cries - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

A cry out of storm and dark - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

To cry only softly at the ashes of my mysteries - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

Sends forth her cry into the void - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Cries out in siren welcome to the night - Ann K. Schwader "Cordyceps zombii"

Carts whose banshee wheels cry havoc - Ann K. Schwader "The Laundrymen"

Who cry like ravens at spacetime destroyed - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

The barn swallows' sharp flight and cry - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Drowns the piping cries of light - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

The far-off hills cry a golden word of you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

That no God's heart is softened by our cries - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"

Must I now hearken to your bitter cry? - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Sorrow in the cries of moor-fowls - Winfield Shiras "Sonnet"

The cuckoo from the distance cries - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

Will come for the weak lambs' cry - Dora Sigerson Shorter "You Will Not Come Again"

There I'd sit and cry my fill - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Cries like a prophet's ghost - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

A wizard wind goes crying - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"

And cry in vain upon the strand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"

More quick to cry its agony - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

The inconsolable crying of an evil wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"

Cried to me in a dawn of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

An unanswered crying turned to stone - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Crying on the frightened air - James Stephens "The Snare"

A cry of divine attention - Wallace Stevens "The Course of a Particular"

Cry out through my desolate heart - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Early and late and forever cries out - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

The birds crying from shriveled gardens - Keith Taylor "Statue of the Blind Girl"

Wounded by vehement cries - Sara Teasdale "New Year's Dawn-- Broadway"

Cried to the windless valleys - Sara Teasdale "The River"

The sadness of the owl's last cry - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

Translate the word the cuckoo cries - Edward Thomas "She Dotes"

Crying for the bird of the snow - Edward Thomas "Snow"

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]

The rain that cries in silence - Adil Tunyaz "The World in the City of Kashgar" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

If the sky's got to cry - Nancy Byrd Turner "A Rainy Day Plan" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

In which he drew his soul's exalted cry - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Death flickered in an owl's far cry - W.J. Turner "Death"

Cradle the cry of my blood - Malka Heifetz Tussman "Mount Gilboa" transl. by Marcia Falk

Shreds itself with cricket cries - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"

Monkeys peer down from the cliffs and cry - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson

To try the world-wide cry - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"

Your cries will be clothes and flowers - John Moncure Wettarau "Rage's Place"

My soul sinks crying - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"

The angry cry of the realities - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"

The strangled cries of flute and trumpet - John Hall Wheelock "Vaudeville"

And cried of grief and loneliness - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"

Walks wild-eyed and cries to Time - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Overheard the curlews cry - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

Hailed the cuckoo's cry - Joseph R. Wilson "My Boyhood's Home"

Crying on the string of what was lost - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

With cries like grieving - Valerie Worth "Geese"

In a werewolf's cry to the moon and the blood - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

When the raven's cry comes on the night wind - Yin Shih "Parting from the Courtier Sung" transl. by Burton Watson

Voices silenced, cries ignored - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

The cry of the forsaken bones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


To stir like a battle-cry - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"


I outcry the eagles - Noor Hindi "Breaking [News]"

The querulous outcry of the loon - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Shivered with outcry of eldritch voices - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"


The howling wind is their war-cry - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"


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