Potential Titles: Seek
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somethingdarkerAll the water seeks is to swallow weight - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"
Seeking a solace with the fair and bright - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
The mourning heart seeks least - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
Yonder sea-mew seeks the inland moss - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
All who seek the debt of praise - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Not trusting the beautiful void to seek him out - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Seeking a buttercup, plucking a rose - "Annie" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Those who seek a tiny shot of God - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Who roves where dreamers seek - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."
That makes our fingers seek revenge - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"
seek for pastures not yet born - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"
Seeking the sun in vain - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited
Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
With eager looks that seek for more - W.M. Bicknell "The Yankee Boys That Didn't Number Ten" [St. Nicholas v.V no.9, July 1878]
That stream of seeking motion - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattle-Snake Mountain Dialogue"
Come back to seek the girl she was in these familiar stones - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"
Seeking the shadow of a dream - Vera M. Brittain "Roundel ('Died of Wounds')"
Seek relief from the Eumenides of woe - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
For other token do not seek - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
Seeking nectar in a grey metropolis - Sue Budin "On Hearing of the Imminent Crash of a Satellite on Earth"
Seeking ports of rest - F.W. Butler-Thwing "The Tramp-Ship"
You may seek it with thimbles - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Would seek his peace in vain - Willa Cather "A Likeness"
To seek for bliss alone - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
With sword and spear, I'd seek a warrior's fame - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
The silence of possibility seeking a voice - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
A garden which no serpent seeks - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Echo or mirror seeking - S.T. Coleridge "Frost at Midnight"
Seek to link again our broken ties - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"
Go, seek the stars and count them - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
shall seek all blossoms that do learn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Twilight seeks the thrill of moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
I but seek relief from my consuming grief - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
At the bridge edge seeking relief - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
Seek the woods, the nightingale, and moon - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"
Seeking at such a price another's peace - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Seeker in gutter and star - Benjamin De Casseres "Tantara! Tantaro!"
Seek not the face of Pan to see - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
Seeking the tricky algorithm of travel - Diana Marie Delgado "In the Romantic Longhand of the Night"
Broken and scattered among the seekers - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"
Dark ones seeking milk and honey - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Your eyes seeking your name - Rita Dove "Happenstance"
A shepherd seeking lilies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"
The magic gold which from the seeker flies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And seek a shelter from the storm - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Seek the strange within the same - Katherine Edgren "Prospecting"
The pang that seeks the heart - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Witch's Chant"
Seekers after sustenance - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
Still seeking succor from the night - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
The wound forever seeking balm - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"
Seek our welcome in a silent tear - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
To seek for hell so pure a gem as this - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Who seek a swift revenge find leisure to repent it - "Forgive the Wrong" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Who seeks to pluck the fragrant rose - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Always do seek our soul's decay - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Seeking her own voice in an ever-changing world - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Mnemosyne"
Seek for rhythmic whispering - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Who seek to put unsolved things away - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Intend to seek the roadway's farthest end - Mona Gould "Lunch Hour"
Like home-coming swallows that seek the old eaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"
Seek admittance there in vain - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Vainly seeks one votive stone - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
While seeking clover sweet - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Bee"
Seeking to read the mystic spell - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
I seek the quietude of stones - Aldous Huxley "Escape"
That fondly seek this fairy shrine - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
If the anvil seeks restitution - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Fred Williamson Stars as 'The Hammer'"
As one who seeks a knife - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"
Like the sky seeking justice - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
If it is resuscitation I seek - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"
Seek the Hermit in the grove - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Feed them silence when they seek - Rudyard Kipling "The Outsong: Bagheera"
Whose captain would seek the lightless reefs - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
The beginning, some prelude you seek - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
Seek to quell its secret burning - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Seek to borrow pleasure - Archibald Lampman "The Song of Pan"
To seek his consummation beyond himself - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Love seeks no mortal approbation - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Seek to twine a coronal of song - Henry S. Leigh "The Miseries of Genius"
Seek not to match the basilisk's false gleaming - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Seeking the last steep edges of the earth - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"
Seek out the cubs in the tiger's cave - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Seek no favor untouched by blood - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Feel the Seeker's noble zest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
With dreams to seek - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Estela Cause of Our Joy"
And seeks from star to star - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Materialist"
That idly seek to grapple with abortive deeds - Maurice Maeterlinck "Prayer" transl. by Bernard Miall
How a rib seeks its twin - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"
Must seek close kinship with forgetfulness - George Martin "Celestine"
On ears that had wiser employ to seek - George Martin "The Woodland Walk"
Still hounds seek his scent - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"
That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Seeking light from earth's core - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
In desolation seeking after peace - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
All seeking to unite their fates - James McIntyre "Birth of Canada as a Nation, July First, 1867"
Like Falstaff, seeks repose and dreams of glory - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Honor in them the spirit that seeks to save - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
Not to dream but to seek the light again - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
To seek within the jaws of death - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"
Seeking amid the watery constellations - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With wintry hand seeks our hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Will seek to claim the tempest of thy soul - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
That a wandering man may seek her cities - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The assiduous atom seeking an exit - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"
Rose again to seek a newer world - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
They seek a phantom Future - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Golden Days"
Or seek for perfection uncertain - Marion H. Rand "The Real and the Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Seeking out the darkest places of the world - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Seeks to freeze the remembrance of tears - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
To seek the hell-hounds out at last - Duane W. Rimel "Late Revenge" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Seeking some heart beyond our hearts - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
To seek relief in fairer realms of space - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Seek lives outside of speech - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
Seek the high austerity of evening sky and swirl into its depths - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"
Seeks the silence of a vaster night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Poverty's speech that seeks us out - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
And the black cat seeks prey - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"
Seek him at the eagle's nest - "Superior Nonsense Verses"
Then seeks at home digestion for his lore - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
With Demeter still we seek the Spring - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"
To seek no strength in waving reeds - Sara Teasdale "Lessons"
Who seeks through Winter's ruins - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
What knowledge you seek - "Three Poetry Fragments Unearthed at Turpan Bezeklik" transl. by Dolkun Kamberi and Jeffrey Yang
Seer seeking sage - Edwin Torres "Territory"
Always seeking mouths for drowning - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
To seek the ranks of immortals - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
The lasting goal of every seeking thought - Rudolph Valentino "Wealth (To B.F.S.)"
Conscious cloud seeking its edge - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"
Ruptured by a bullet seeking language - Ocean Vuong "Dear Rose"
And the Spaniards were seeking gold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
Seek a just containment - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
For the rarest flower seeks - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Why seek with such vain thoughts to wean - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Halting footsteps seek and find - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
In the avoidance of that which we seek - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Seeking the flowers of March - William Carlos Williams "March"
Winding rivers seeking distant homes - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Seek out the wisdom of all the ancients - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 39" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
And in singleness of heart seek - "The Wisdom of Solomon 1" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Seeking lucid speech in colonies of darkness - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
Seeking solace, grace, amidst the chaos - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
The obsessive heat-seeking quality of attraction - Erika Jo Brown "Art"
Hide-and-Seek.
The honey-seeking, golden-banded - H.D. "Orchard"
Where the wonder-seekers crowd - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
Sought.
Unsought.
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Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"
Seeking a solace with the fair and bright - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
The mourning heart seeks least - A.C. Ainsworth "Lines to a Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.6, Dec. 1841]
Yonder sea-mew seeks the inland moss - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
All who seek the debt of praise - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Not trusting the beautiful void to seek him out - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Seeking a buttercup, plucking a rose - "Annie" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Those who seek a tiny shot of God - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Who roves where dreamers seek - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."
That makes our fingers seek revenge - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"
seek for pastures not yet born - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"
Seeking the sun in vain - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited
Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
With eager looks that seek for more - W.M. Bicknell "The Yankee Boys That Didn't Number Ten" [St. Nicholas v.V no.9, July 1878]
That stream of seeking motion - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattle-Snake Mountain Dialogue"
Come back to seek the girl she was in these familiar stones - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"
Seeking the shadow of a dream - Vera M. Brittain "Roundel ('Died of Wounds')"
Seek relief from the Eumenides of woe - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
For other token do not seek - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
Seeking nectar in a grey metropolis - Sue Budin "On Hearing of the Imminent Crash of a Satellite on Earth"
Seeking ports of rest - F.W. Butler-Thwing "The Tramp-Ship"
You may seek it with thimbles - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Would seek his peace in vain - Willa Cather "A Likeness"
To seek for bliss alone - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
With sword and spear, I'd seek a warrior's fame - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
The silence of possibility seeking a voice - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
A garden which no serpent seeks - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Echo or mirror seeking - S.T. Coleridge "Frost at Midnight"
Seek to link again our broken ties - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"
Go, seek the stars and count them - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
shall seek all blossoms that do learn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Twilight seeks the thrill of moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
I but seek relief from my consuming grief - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
At the bridge edge seeking relief - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
Seek the woods, the nightingale, and moon - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"
Seeking at such a price another's peace - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Seeker in gutter and star - Benjamin De Casseres "Tantara! Tantaro!"
Seek not the face of Pan to see - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
Seeking the tricky algorithm of travel - Diana Marie Delgado "In the Romantic Longhand of the Night"
Broken and scattered among the seekers - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"
Dark ones seeking milk and honey - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Your eyes seeking your name - Rita Dove "Happenstance"
A shepherd seeking lilies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"
The magic gold which from the seeker flies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And seek a shelter from the storm - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Seek the strange within the same - Katherine Edgren "Prospecting"
The pang that seeks the heart - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Witch's Chant"
Seekers after sustenance - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
Still seeking succor from the night - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
The wound forever seeking balm - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"
Seek our welcome in a silent tear - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
To seek for hell so pure a gem as this - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Who seek a swift revenge find leisure to repent it - "Forgive the Wrong" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Who seeks to pluck the fragrant rose - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Always do seek our soul's decay - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Seeking her own voice in an ever-changing world - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Mnemosyne"
Seek for rhythmic whispering - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Who seek to put unsolved things away - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Intend to seek the roadway's farthest end - Mona Gould "Lunch Hour"
Like home-coming swallows that seek the old eaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"
Seek admittance there in vain - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Vainly seeks one votive stone - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
While seeking clover sweet - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Bee"
Seeking to read the mystic spell - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
I seek the quietude of stones - Aldous Huxley "Escape"
That fondly seek this fairy shrine - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
If the anvil seeks restitution - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Fred Williamson Stars as 'The Hammer'"
As one who seeks a knife - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"
Like the sky seeking justice - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
If it is resuscitation I seek - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"
Seek the Hermit in the grove - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Feed them silence when they seek - Rudyard Kipling "The Outsong: Bagheera"
Whose captain would seek the lightless reefs - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
The beginning, some prelude you seek - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
Seek to quell its secret burning - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Seek to borrow pleasure - Archibald Lampman "The Song of Pan"
To seek his consummation beyond himself - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Love seeks no mortal approbation - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Seek to twine a coronal of song - Henry S. Leigh "The Miseries of Genius"
Seek not to match the basilisk's false gleaming - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Seeking the last steep edges of the earth - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"
Seek out the cubs in the tiger's cave - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Seek no favor untouched by blood - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Feel the Seeker's noble zest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
With dreams to seek - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Estela Cause of Our Joy"
And seeks from star to star - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Materialist"
That idly seek to grapple with abortive deeds - Maurice Maeterlinck "Prayer" transl. by Bernard Miall
How a rib seeks its twin - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"
Must seek close kinship with forgetfulness - George Martin "Celestine"
On ears that had wiser employ to seek - George Martin "The Woodland Walk"
Still hounds seek his scent - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"
That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Seeking light from earth's core - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
In desolation seeking after peace - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
All seeking to unite their fates - James McIntyre "Birth of Canada as a Nation, July First, 1867"
Like Falstaff, seeks repose and dreams of glory - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Honor in them the spirit that seeks to save - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
Not to dream but to seek the light again - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
To seek within the jaws of death - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"
Seeking amid the watery constellations - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With wintry hand seeks our hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Will seek to claim the tempest of thy soul - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
That a wandering man may seek her cities - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The assiduous atom seeking an exit - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"
Rose again to seek a newer world - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
They seek a phantom Future - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Golden Days"
Or seek for perfection uncertain - Marion H. Rand "The Real and the Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Seeking out the darkest places of the world - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Seeks to freeze the remembrance of tears - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
To seek the hell-hounds out at last - Duane W. Rimel "Late Revenge" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Seeking some heart beyond our hearts - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
To seek relief in fairer realms of space - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Seek lives outside of speech - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
Seek the high austerity of evening sky and swirl into its depths - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"
Seeks the silence of a vaster night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Poverty's speech that seeks us out - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
And the black cat seeks prey - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"
Seek him at the eagle's nest - "Superior Nonsense Verses"
Then seeks at home digestion for his lore - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
With Demeter still we seek the Spring - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"
To seek no strength in waving reeds - Sara Teasdale "Lessons"
Who seeks through Winter's ruins - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
What knowledge you seek - "Three Poetry Fragments Unearthed at Turpan Bezeklik" transl. by Dolkun Kamberi and Jeffrey Yang
Seer seeking sage - Edwin Torres "Territory"
Always seeking mouths for drowning - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
To seek the ranks of immortals - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
The lasting goal of every seeking thought - Rudolph Valentino "Wealth (To B.F.S.)"
Conscious cloud seeking its edge - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"
Ruptured by a bullet seeking language - Ocean Vuong "Dear Rose"
And the Spaniards were seeking gold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
Seek a just containment - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
For the rarest flower seeks - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Why seek with such vain thoughts to wean - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Halting footsteps seek and find - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
In the avoidance of that which we seek - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Seeking the flowers of March - William Carlos Williams "March"
Winding rivers seeking distant homes - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Seek out the wisdom of all the ancients - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 39" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
And in singleness of heart seek - "The Wisdom of Solomon 1" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Seeking lucid speech in colonies of darkness - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
Seeking solace, grace, amidst the chaos - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
The obsessive heat-seeking quality of attraction - Erika Jo Brown "Art"
Hide-and-Seek.
The honey-seeking, golden-banded - H.D. "Orchard"
Where the wonder-seekers crowd - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
Sought.
Unsought.
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