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Potential Titles: Seek

All the water seeks is to swallow weight - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"

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"

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

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"

A shepherd seeking lilies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

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]

Always do seek our soul's decay - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

Seek for rhythmic whispering - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

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

Whose captain would seek the lightless reefs - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

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 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"

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"

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"

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]

Seeking some heart beyond our hearts - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

Seek lives outside of speech - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

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"

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"

To seek the ranks of immortals - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

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"

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"


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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