Potential Titles: Thorn
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somethingdarkerFlowers above and thorns below - A.L.O.E. "The Sinners' Portion"
The thorn of you in every joint - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
Tragic thorn-pierced feet - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
Noise and bramble, thorn and din - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
The thorned secrets our tongues have learned - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
Laying her hand deliberately against each thorn - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Roses fall, but the thorns remain - Anonymous Dutch proverb (I can't find a firmer source for this)
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Flowers and thorns exist together - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
We gather thorns enough - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
And the rose withers on its virgin thorns - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Its needled hands and thorny feet - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
The innocence of thorns - Elizabeth Bartlett "Instinct and Reason"
Will hide the thorns with roses - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garland"
Cold gliding in the thorny brake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
His way is hedged with thorns - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Crowned your hall with granite thorns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
Thorned with wrens pecking - Sherwin Bitsui "Triptych"
That leads me to the thorny maze - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
Her thorns were my only delight - William Blake "My Pretty Rose Tree"
Into a cloud of thorny vines - Richard Blanco "Looking for Blackbirds, Hartford"
On his bonfires burns the thorns and dross - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
Thorn vine on the wall - "The Book of Odes: No.46 Thorn Vine on the Wall" transl. by Burton Watson
And burst through brier and thorn - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Thorny bud and poisonous flower - Emily Bronte "The Elder's Rebuke"
Between the hedgerow thorns - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
The snail's on the thorn - Robert Browning "Pippa's Song"
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Drifts of wild-thorn flowers - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Out of tangled weed and thorny seed - Madison Cawein "Ghosts"
Thorns falling on the imagined grass - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
With strawberry, thorn, and vine - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Over everything the tangled thorns - Chang Tsai "The Desecration of the Han Tombs" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And figs grew upon the thorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Grown over with brier and thorn - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 1" transl. by Burton Watson
Thorns and weeds fill the palace chamber - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
A cobweb hiding disappointment's thorn - John Clare "What Is Life?"
Turned to the rock and thorn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Like the rose on its ladder of thorn - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
Mends the broken hedge with icy thorn - George Crabbe "The Village"
From wild thorn frail their order grew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Ragged bundles of thorns - Jim Daniels "Self-portrait with Cigarette"
Be mine with all thy thorns - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
The holly mid ten thousand thorns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
Only the robin perched on a thorn - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"
From the roots of the dark thorn - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"
Brushed by a plum tree's wicked thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The way a border on a map twists into thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Thorns and love in the roses' bed - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"
Many thorns fill the path to my goal - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
Metamorphoses into a wet thorn - Carolina Ebeid "Scripts for the Future"
From what darkling thorn - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"
Brought low by the thorn - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"
The fresh rose on yonder thorn - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
The thorns of foreign lands - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Bites thorn and ice - Heid E. Erdich "Thrifty Gene, Lucky Gene"
Grows nothing but my thorn - Eleanor Farjeon "For Joan"
But they the sharpest thorns who bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Along the thorny track of truth - Arthur M. Forrester "Father Tom Malone"
The thorns for his serfs - Arthur M. Forrester "The Lord of Kenmare"
Their thorns are their innocent protection - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
The calendar a thorn into the sole - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
The rose is fenced by the thorn - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
Each frail pilgrim of the thorny land - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Tilling the earth from thorn to rose - James Roane Gregory "Rain"
Jagged as a red-rose thorn - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"
Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
When the rosebuds hide the thorns - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
Tortured syntax, thorned thoughts - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
On rocks or thorns reposing - Hafiz "The Divan VII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Rapture from a land of thorns - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
To alight upon the wind-warped upland thorn - Thomas Hardy "Afterwards"
Taste the blackberry thorn - francine j. harris "feeder"
Lush petals and glistening thorns - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
On thorns (and roses) treading - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Careys"
Were made wise beneath the twisted thorn - F.W. Harvey "'Local Fatalities Are Reported'"
Freed from every thorn - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
The wren ignoring the thorn - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"
A wilderness of thorn and rue - Emily Pauline Johnson "A Prodigal"
Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"
Thorny roses goaded into color - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
My flesh clay and flowers and thorns - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
The thorny paths of penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Saved only thorns and thistles for myself - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"
A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
Thorns out-grown like spiked aloe - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
With knots in my veins, thorns on my tongue - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"
A handful of thorns, a bit of marigold dust - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Tires of Being Holy"
Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
The thorn sea that has swallowed us - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"
Weeding out sharp thorns and nettles - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
He has bribed the thorns - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"
Only a few sparse thorns - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"
Lonely sobbing from the thorn - Richard Le Gallienne "Beatrice"
The thorn was left to me - Amy Levy "Translated from Geibel"
The apple allied to the thorn - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"
From the trellis of flowering thorn - Liu K'o-chuang "Leaving the City" transl. by Burton Watson
Grapes do not come of thorns nor figs of thistles - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Blood stains on the bushes and thorns - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Stand stripped to stick and thorn - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"
Mock our own blood on the thorns - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
If thorns instead of roses suit - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
That blunted the thorns of my bed - George Martin "Lines"
Thorns whose leafy garb deceived - George Martin "Marguerite"
The blackbirds were singing to the thorn - John Masefield "Enslaved"
The stem that anchors the thorn - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Tread the thorns some future day - James E. McGirt "A Quest"
Purple rose before the thorn - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"
The thorn of our red love - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
No dust upon the wayside thorn - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
When first the white-thorn blows - John Milton "Lycidas"
Of thorns and petals never worn - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Your thorns are the best part of you - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
And thorns amid the roots - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Making a net in a knot of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Asperities of land and thorns - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A violet with its crown of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
Its irrevocable delicate thorn - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Expressed themselves with thorns and sudden blossoms - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
No longer recognizes the thorns - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Its hidden thorns discover - E. Nesbit "Chagrin d'Amour"
To the gate by the twisted thorn - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"
A hard road and thorny - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Barren thorns to plunge - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
That the thorn and rose are wed - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
That makes the rose about me and gnashes at thorns - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Belle"
By black doll or briar thorn - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Standing among the thorns of memory - Phan Nhien Hao "9/11 - Hue Massacre" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
From a thicket all thorns - Carl Phillips "Ransom"
Up from the twists and thorns - Carl Phillips "Why So This Quiet"
The dead thorns sharper than the green - Robert Pinsky "The Thicket"
Twined with every thorn - Joseph Mary Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Through field and brake of thorn - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Rosemary and thorn and thyme - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
Surrounded by thickets and thorns and threats - M. Regan "The Hollow"
That hold their tiny revels on a thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
And honey served on thorns - Lola Ridge "To the American People"
Wounded sore with thorns - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"
A rose has thorns as well as honey - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"
In every thorn-bush are thousands slain - Rumi "The Call of the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Threw you into a pot of thorns - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
Fair fall the lusty thorn - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"
Full often thorns upon the thread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
For thorns and roses there outspread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
What blooms bears thorns - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Protocol"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
The thorns of life - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Thorned whispers well below a human's capacity to hear - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Recoiled at my knotted thorns of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
thorns in the inches of light sunsets have - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Such the thorny home she offers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Rose whose thorn is ecstasy - George Sterling "Doubt and Worship"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
As eastward woke a thorny star - George Sterling "White Magic"
Sleep beneath a thorn - M. Letitia Stockett "Free"
In threes and fives by thorn hedge gates - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Hunger is sharper nor a thorn - "There Was a Knight"
Bounded by oak and thorn - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
Thorns in the part of memory you cannot reach - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
A thorn was left in our tongues - Adil Tunyaz "But a Thorn Was Left in Our Tongues..." transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The trace of blood on the thorn - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Holding thorns in one hand - U Tak "2270" (transl. not credited but assumed, due to poet's dates, not to be the poet)
Crossing a field of brambles and thorns - R.A. Villanueva "Archipelagic"
Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"
Bundling thorns for kindling - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson
On the thorns that are the hours - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Life's rugged road of thorns - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
When you lay down your thorns - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Where thornbushes sprout - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Tired of thornless roses - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"
Wear a thornless crown - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIII"
Not a bed of thornless roses - Marilyn Nelson "The Baby Picture Guessing Game"
So thick with thornless flowers - P.D.T. "Lost Treasures"
Battered elm and thorn-tree - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
A twisted thorn-tree still in the evening stands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
Give her back her time-thorned flesh - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
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The thorn of you in every joint - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
Tragic thorn-pierced feet - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
Noise and bramble, thorn and din - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
The thorned secrets our tongues have learned - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
Laying her hand deliberately against each thorn - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Roses fall, but the thorns remain - Anonymous Dutch proverb (I can't find a firmer source for this)
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Flowers and thorns exist together - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
We gather thorns enough - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
And the rose withers on its virgin thorns - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Its needled hands and thorny feet - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
The innocence of thorns - Elizabeth Bartlett "Instinct and Reason"
Will hide the thorns with roses - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garland"
Cold gliding in the thorny brake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
His way is hedged with thorns - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Crowned your hall with granite thorns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
Thorned with wrens pecking - Sherwin Bitsui "Triptych"
That leads me to the thorny maze - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
Her thorns were my only delight - William Blake "My Pretty Rose Tree"
Into a cloud of thorny vines - Richard Blanco "Looking for Blackbirds, Hartford"
On his bonfires burns the thorns and dross - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
Thorn vine on the wall - "The Book of Odes: No.46 Thorn Vine on the Wall" transl. by Burton Watson
And burst through brier and thorn - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Thorny bud and poisonous flower - Emily Bronte "The Elder's Rebuke"
Between the hedgerow thorns - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
The snail's on the thorn - Robert Browning "Pippa's Song"
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Drifts of wild-thorn flowers - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Out of tangled weed and thorny seed - Madison Cawein "Ghosts"
Thorns falling on the imagined grass - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
With strawberry, thorn, and vine - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Over everything the tangled thorns - Chang Tsai "The Desecration of the Han Tombs" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And figs grew upon the thorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Grown over with brier and thorn - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 1" transl. by Burton Watson
Thorns and weeds fill the palace chamber - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
A cobweb hiding disappointment's thorn - John Clare "What Is Life?"
Turned to the rock and thorn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Like the rose on its ladder of thorn - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
Mends the broken hedge with icy thorn - George Crabbe "The Village"
From wild thorn frail their order grew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Ragged bundles of thorns - Jim Daniels "Self-portrait with Cigarette"
Be mine with all thy thorns - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
The holly mid ten thousand thorns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
Only the robin perched on a thorn - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"
From the roots of the dark thorn - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"
Brushed by a plum tree's wicked thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The way a border on a map twists into thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Thorns and love in the roses' bed - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"
Many thorns fill the path to my goal - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
Metamorphoses into a wet thorn - Carolina Ebeid "Scripts for the Future"
From what darkling thorn - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"
Brought low by the thorn - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"
The fresh rose on yonder thorn - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
The thorns of foreign lands - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Bites thorn and ice - Heid E. Erdich "Thrifty Gene, Lucky Gene"
Grows nothing but my thorn - Eleanor Farjeon "For Joan"
But they the sharpest thorns who bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Along the thorny track of truth - Arthur M. Forrester "Father Tom Malone"
The thorns for his serfs - Arthur M. Forrester "The Lord of Kenmare"
Their thorns are their innocent protection - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
The calendar a thorn into the sole - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
The rose is fenced by the thorn - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
Each frail pilgrim of the thorny land - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Tilling the earth from thorn to rose - James Roane Gregory "Rain"
Jagged as a red-rose thorn - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"
Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
When the rosebuds hide the thorns - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
Tortured syntax, thorned thoughts - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
On rocks or thorns reposing - Hafiz "The Divan VII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Rapture from a land of thorns - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
To alight upon the wind-warped upland thorn - Thomas Hardy "Afterwards"
Taste the blackberry thorn - francine j. harris "feeder"
Lush petals and glistening thorns - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
On thorns (and roses) treading - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Careys"
Were made wise beneath the twisted thorn - F.W. Harvey "'Local Fatalities Are Reported'"
Freed from every thorn - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
The wren ignoring the thorn - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"
A wilderness of thorn and rue - Emily Pauline Johnson "A Prodigal"
Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"
Thorny roses goaded into color - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
My flesh clay and flowers and thorns - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
The thorny paths of penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Saved only thorns and thistles for myself - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"
A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
Thorns out-grown like spiked aloe - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
With knots in my veins, thorns on my tongue - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"
A handful of thorns, a bit of marigold dust - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Tires of Being Holy"
Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
The thorn sea that has swallowed us - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"
Weeding out sharp thorns and nettles - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
He has bribed the thorns - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"
Only a few sparse thorns - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"
Lonely sobbing from the thorn - Richard Le Gallienne "Beatrice"
The thorn was left to me - Amy Levy "Translated from Geibel"
The apple allied to the thorn - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"
From the trellis of flowering thorn - Liu K'o-chuang "Leaving the City" transl. by Burton Watson
Grapes do not come of thorns nor figs of thistles - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Blood stains on the bushes and thorns - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Stand stripped to stick and thorn - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"
Mock our own blood on the thorns - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
If thorns instead of roses suit - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
That blunted the thorns of my bed - George Martin "Lines"
Thorns whose leafy garb deceived - George Martin "Marguerite"
The blackbirds were singing to the thorn - John Masefield "Enslaved"
The stem that anchors the thorn - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Tread the thorns some future day - James E. McGirt "A Quest"
Purple rose before the thorn - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"
The thorn of our red love - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
No dust upon the wayside thorn - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
When first the white-thorn blows - John Milton "Lycidas"
Of thorns and petals never worn - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Your thorns are the best part of you - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
And thorns amid the roots - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Making a net in a knot of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Asperities of land and thorns - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A violet with its crown of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
Its irrevocable delicate thorn - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Expressed themselves with thorns and sudden blossoms - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
No longer recognizes the thorns - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Its hidden thorns discover - E. Nesbit "Chagrin d'Amour"
To the gate by the twisted thorn - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"
A hard road and thorny - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Barren thorns to plunge - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
That the thorn and rose are wed - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
That makes the rose about me and gnashes at thorns - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Belle"
By black doll or briar thorn - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Standing among the thorns of memory - Phan Nhien Hao "9/11 - Hue Massacre" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
From a thicket all thorns - Carl Phillips "Ransom"
Up from the twists and thorns - Carl Phillips "Why So This Quiet"
The dead thorns sharper than the green - Robert Pinsky "The Thicket"
Twined with every thorn - Joseph Mary Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Through field and brake of thorn - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Rosemary and thorn and thyme - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
Surrounded by thickets and thorns and threats - M. Regan "The Hollow"
That hold their tiny revels on a thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
And honey served on thorns - Lola Ridge "To the American People"
Wounded sore with thorns - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"
A rose has thorns as well as honey - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"
In every thorn-bush are thousands slain - Rumi "The Call of the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Threw you into a pot of thorns - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
Fair fall the lusty thorn - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"
Full often thorns upon the thread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
For thorns and roses there outspread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
What blooms bears thorns - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Protocol"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
The thorns of life - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Thorned whispers well below a human's capacity to hear - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Recoiled at my knotted thorns of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
thorns in the inches of light sunsets have - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Such the thorny home she offers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Rose whose thorn is ecstasy - George Sterling "Doubt and Worship"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
As eastward woke a thorny star - George Sterling "White Magic"
Sleep beneath a thorn - M. Letitia Stockett "Free"
In threes and fives by thorn hedge gates - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Hunger is sharper nor a thorn - "There Was a Knight"
Bounded by oak and thorn - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
Thorns in the part of memory you cannot reach - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
A thorn was left in our tongues - Adil Tunyaz "But a Thorn Was Left in Our Tongues..." transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The trace of blood on the thorn - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Holding thorns in one hand - U Tak "2270" (transl. not credited but assumed, due to poet's dates, not to be the poet)
Crossing a field of brambles and thorns - R.A. Villanueva "Archipelagic"
Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"
Bundling thorns for kindling - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson
On the thorns that are the hours - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Life's rugged road of thorns - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
When you lay down your thorns - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Where thornbushes sprout - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Tired of thornless roses - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"
Wear a thornless crown - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIII"
Not a bed of thornless roses - Marilyn Nelson "The Baby Picture Guessing Game"
So thick with thornless flowers - P.D.T. "Lost Treasures"
Battered elm and thorn-tree - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
A twisted thorn-tree still in the evening stands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
Give her back her time-thorned flesh - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
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