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Bring and betoken toil and grief - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring


Here is the token of gold that was broken - William Allingham "The Nobleman's Wedding"

Beholds the angry token of thundering Jove - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

token mainly for regret - Elizabeth Bartlett "this much I know about time"

For other token do not seek - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"

No little token of distraction - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

With every mortal token of our trust - Witter Bynner "Surety"

Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"

Doleful tokens to his fame combine - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Mix our wishes in a tokening tear - John Clare "To an April Daisy"

The curlews' call gave token - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Waft no token of grace to this sorrowful realm - Mary B. Dodge "Overdue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]

There is no burning token - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

No token from her latticed house - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Though of tenderness they bring no token - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

Tokens of brass in your hair - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

All hopes that token immortality - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"

Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"

Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

The token of this faltering breath - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Moving tokens of becoming's task - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Verb"

Token of profoundest favor - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

With cryptic tokens of the slain - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"

The toy withheld is the token of all who refrain from play - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

Squandered the tokens of their fame - Friedrich Schiller "Man's Dignity"

Came with the tokens of wrath - E. Clementine Stedman "A Winter Scene"

A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"

Carry the token of the world - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]

What token of your lone love - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"


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