Potential Titles: Sweet
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somethingdarkerSweetness at sunset all alone - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
Under the sweet breath of branches - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Expired like bruised sweet herbs - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"
Swimming up the sweet air to reach you - Kim Addonizio "Mermaid Song"
Sweet chant of the wild-birds' morning hymn - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
Bind true elegance with sweet utility - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Nature's forces all in sweet subjection bend - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Adds one more sweet hymn - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Sweeter than fancy dreams of - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VI--Summer"
Sweet sings the missel-thrush amid the crash - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
For food they gave him honey sweet - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring
More sweet than amber honey - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Discover fragrance of such sweet power - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Sweet bandit of my soul - Atticus "Magic in Love"
And the fig tree will ache with sweetness - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"
World made sweet with thyme - Albion Fellows Bacon "Her Title-Deeds"
Sweet those inscrutable untruths - Mary Jo Bang "Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out"
Warm, sugar sweet, and wormwood bitter - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"
Sweet Finesse and her cold friend, Necessity - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
Into love's sweet looking glass - Mary Jo Bang "She Loved Falling"
Building sweet music high above - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
And sweet dreams until dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
beneath the crystal scent sweet leaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"
Gathering sweetness for the future - Ardelia Maria Barton "Reverie"
A sweet flower for the bee - Ardelia Maria Barton "We Know What the Harvest Will Be"
Till liquid sweetness stirs the air - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"
Their lofty domes are sweet - Cora C. Bass "Spare the Trees"
Sweet and bitter waters - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"
Sweet poison mixed by angels - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
The sweets of forgetfulness prove - James Beattie "The Hermit"
Sweet powers of solitude and song - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Caresses too sugared to be sweet - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lost Lights"
And scattered in sweet wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
The sadness and sweetness of far evening bells - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
The implicit sweetness of speed - Joshua Bennett "Preface to a Twenty-Volume Regicide Note"
Believed in the sweetness of salt - Terry Blackhawk "Lot's Wife"
Suffered and sweetly mended nets of abundance - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Sung sweet beneath the coming dawn - Jari Bradley "Boihood"
With wine of sweet companionship - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
One sweet breath of memory - Anne Bronte "Memory"
All the sweet thoughts I live on - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"
With hoarded sweets replenished - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Midnight rest may still be sweet - Emily Bronte "Self-Interrogation"
But not sweeter than the song - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
And made her pillow sweet - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
With words so sweet and dense - Lauren L. Brown "Willie Mae Brown (1909-1980)"
The sweet solace is a river bed - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
The heart does smell thee sweet - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
In fountains of sweet sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
And memory brings her sweetest stores - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
Among bones white and sweet - Rebecca Buchanan "The First Morning in May"
Toward the sweet scent of oncoming storm - Sue Budin "Reclamation"
To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Start abrupt in Joy's sweet neighborhood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The most forbidden of sweets - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Sleep by the sweet wild twist of her song - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"
Enough to feel that sweet steady rhythm - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Moonlight in sweet overflow - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"
Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
Like sweet bells jangled - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles II"
Mingled in sweet symphony - "The Cascade"
Sweeter thy honey lips - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
The rich, wild sweetness of her song - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Her lantern glows amidst sweet eglantine - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Only the sweet ghost of his melody - Willa Cather "Eurydice"
Repair comes with sweetness - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
One far fierce hour and sweet - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"
Song is sweet in a lonely place - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Sweet in fond longings - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
That sweet music of deliverance - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"
Deserves such sweet levitation - Billy Collins "Putti in the Night"
As sweetly as it was named - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
The sweetness of my dreams - Hilda Conkling "About My Dreams"
A hollow sweet to rest in - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"
Answered me sweetly - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"
Another kind of sweetness - Hilda Conkling "Hay-Cock"
Sweet harmonies of hue - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
Bitter drop in bloom and sweet - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
From the sweet state of panic - Rasheed Copeland "When Puffy says, and we won't stop, 'cause we can't stop"
Where voices low and sweet the hours beguiled - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
That was sweet to my soul - Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. "My Song"
Bloom more sweet than Asphodel - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
How bitter sweet the sound - Brody Parrish Craig "Baby You Ever Seen a Wretch Like Me?"
The feet of the sweet winds - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"
Sweetness spilled from a million petals - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
Sweet bleeding into salt salt drinking in sweet - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Sweet cakes and honey and wine - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
The sweet Lark shall sing unheard - Rev. William Crowe "The British Theatre. Written in 1775"
The sweetest of windswept memories - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
All sweet things that flourish - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
A costly morsel of sweet tears - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
That some sweet accident might yet release - Olive Custance "A Dream"
Your sweetness is more cruel - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
Makes bitter poison into sweet - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"
Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
Sweet to a heart unentangled and light - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"
A sweet needle that gathers the fraying threat - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"
Share the remnant sweetness - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Sweet requiem for the countless dead - Kwame Dawes "Requiem"
Warbled sweetly strange enchanted words - Walter de la Mare "As Lucy Went a-Walking"
While the sweet swallow bends her wings - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
Only Pan singing sweet - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
The sweets of life's luxuriant May - Garcilaso de Vega "Coyed de vuestra alegre primavera" translated by Felicia Hemans
For they were sweet in sowing - Aubrey de Vere "Human Life"
With the star charts of a sweetness - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Sweet birds in ignorant cadence - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"
A brief campaign of sting and sweet - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LI"
Listen to the sweet tones of glory - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
And your pipe sweetly playing - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]
Sweet if the heart so dares - Dom "Risking for a Sign"
In dreamless slumber sweet - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Ladye Chapel at Eden Hall"
His silence sweet with sounds - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Paeans sweeter than a seraph's voice - Julia C.R. Dorr "Hymn to Life"
That sweet strain of hours - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"
Hopes grown most sweet - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
The sweet star of your queen - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
A sweet with floods of gall - William Drummond "Sonnet"
Which turn my sweets to sours - William Drummond "Sonnet"
And in thy sweet chains caught - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
Gulfs of sweetness without bound - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"
The sweetest form of courage - Margarita Engle "First Friend"
Sweet as the sound of a calf - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 14. E-Gida, the Temple of Ninazu in Enegir" transl. by Sophus Helle
Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"
Too sweet painsong in passages of night - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 28"
And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Sweet deceiving lock me in delight - John Fletcher "Right Good Is Rest"
Knows but the sweet survival of an hour - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Sweet and delightful are in loneliness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
Change their sweets to bitter burning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
The sweetest dream that labor knows - Robert Frost "Mowing"
The sweet of bitter bark and burning clove - Robert Frost "To Earthward"
And freshen in this air of withering sweetness - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Prodigal of sweetness - Zona Gale "By My Side All Day Another Went"
For one sweet flash of time - Zona Gale "I Wandered Where the Wonder of the Sky--"
In a sweet flash of arrowy sun - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
All things sweet and bitter meet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
The silver of a thousand sweet moons - Nikita Gill "When Love Dies"
A dusty sweetness under fictive eyes - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
Sweeter far a thousand times - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Webbed with sweet-smelling herbs - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"
Sweetly drifting on thick tides of oil and pennies - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Dew droppings sweet from starry spheres - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Music rained down ineffably sweet - Herbert H. Gowen "The Little Grey Lamb"
The blackbird's hymn is sweet - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"
Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
In loose numbers wildly sweet - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
The sweet tranquility of marching silences - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Greece"
Although their coaxing is sweet - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"
In that hot sweet hour - Radclyffe Hall "On the Hill-Side"
Love's sweet share of selfishness - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
The sweet and bitter gods who walk beside us - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
A sip or two of sweet summer - Avis Harley "Sipping Supper"
Sweet as the dollar's chime - Frances E.W. Harper "Going East"
The same sweet music - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
The first knowledge of sweetness - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Sweet as a gratified whim - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
The first bite is neither sweet nor bitter - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
And a sweet hope gilds the future - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"
So sweet and bitter fancy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"
Sweet as the dusty roses - F.W. Harvey "On Over Bridge at Evening"
His insolent envy of sweet death - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet II (from Farewell)"
Sweets in a sticky parade - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
With a decadent sweet art - Seamus Heaney "Aisling"
The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital IV. Before"
The sweetness distilled of my strength - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
The budding trees all honey sweet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Farewell"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
But what is sweet in sorrow - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"
Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Twist with the sweet of mangos - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"
The sweet conjunctions that astonish us - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"
Each soul becomes a fount of sweet content - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"
While seeking clover sweet - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Bee"
The char of ordinary sweetness - Jane Hirshfield "As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us"
Picking a dish of sweet berries and plums - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Our lips sent up so sweet a chime - Elizabeth Curtis Holman "We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time"
Freedom's sweet keynote and commission-word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Where the sweet hawthorn blossoms - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"
Sweet as purple dew - Langston Hughes "Midnight Dancer"
That sweetly dreams itself away - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"
Cull the various sweet songs - "I: Cuicapeuhcayotl | Song at the Beginning" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Its sweet sunshine withholds - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"
Sweet to my dark ruined heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Left the sweet day behind - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
Drop sweetness like the ripening peach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
All mysteries sad and sweet - Elinor Jenkins "Veronica"
These sweet and acid gifts - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Sweetness as well as incense from the urn - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Alcohol as sweet as honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "When Miss Lucy Sings"
With all its fancied sweetness missed - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
The sweet, dulcet pipes of tomorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"
That last, sweet waltz with you - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"
Held in trance by the sweet air - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Sleep beneath her sweetest airs - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"
Sweetening into the blue velvet - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"
Sweet rosemary within the lane - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Remembrance"
Remembrance of such sweetness on the tongue - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"
So different from sweets of home - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
A sleep full of sweet dreams - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Cull time's sweet first-fruits - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Found me roots of relish sweet - John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Dew so sweet and virulent - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"
The sweetest flower wild nature yields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"
Fraught with whispering sweet - John Keble "Fire"
Sweet epitaphs of vines and violets - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Sweet scraps of that immortal song - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
Sweet kindred of my exiled soul - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
Spirit of all sweet sounds - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"
Life's sweetest buds fall withered - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Wind of the wild sweet morning - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"
Sweet and bleak under a halo of stars - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
The Cup with sweet or bitter run - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Not even April's taste is sweet - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
A valley sweet with rose and vine - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"
Stunned by sweetness - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"
No word more bitter than sweet honey - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
All the sweet buttermilk watered the plain - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
With sweetness shivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Body Remembers"
Sweet with their timeless perfume - Ted Kooser "Mother"
Let the fruit taste of sweetness and dust - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Whose memory makes them sweet - Archibald Lampman "Between the Rapids"
Sweet sleep in carven stone - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
Sweet medicine for all distress - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
Sing sweet songs to our mother - Archibald Lampman "Song of the Stream-Drops"
If my soul have no sweet song - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"
Biddings of sweet power - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Sweet voices and words bright - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
Sweetest when unsought - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
In sweetest opposition to the endless - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
A sweet elixir tendering me to sleep - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Sweet herbs from all antiquity - Sidney Lanier "The Stirrup-Cup"
The harsh sweetness of strange words - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"
Made of sweet, untarnished silver - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Pass the sweet fire of day - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
This bright drink of heady music, sweet as hell - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"
Sweet saint of sin - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"
In the land of forbidden sweet - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"
Sweet dreams their cobwebs spin - Ida Lee "The Homestead"
Their malady sweet will vanish - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Reaching into unforeseen sweetness - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Spices like sharp sweet swords - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
The sweetest song since the demons fell - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
A prophet of sweet oracles - Arthur John Lockhart "The Lonely Pine"
And wild and sweet the words repeat - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Christmas Bells"
Sweet as the songs of Sappho - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
May give us hopes that sweeten Darwin - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Dreams of sweet delirium - Thomas Lynch "Lessons from Berkeley"
Burying melancholy with jasmine and sweet osmanthus - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Sweet sisters of the moonbeams - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
His breath was sweet as dusk to me - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"
Your sweet and sad complaints - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
Sipping moonshine and and sweet sable wine - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"
Of magical, sweet surprise - Katherine Mansfield "Voices of the Air"
Sweet-peas with wings for flight - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
And fettered him with woodbine sweet - Philip Bourke Marston "Love Asleep"
Sweet nectar out of weed and cloud - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
A sweet doctrine for a broken heart - John Masefield "King Cole"
Who make salt sweet - John Masefield "King Cole"
Shy like a fawn and sweet - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Friends that deserved a sweeter bed - John Masefield "Waste"
Sweet and cold as the wine of apples - Edgar Lee Masters "Johnny Appleseed"
Toward some ripe, sweetened pause - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Dim shrines of sweet forgotten art - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
Your hands that are sweeter than honey - Theodore Maynard "The Joy of the World"
Can yield to melody's sweet spell - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
The sweet knees of oxen have pressed a path - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
Sweet with the golden threads - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
As the coffee deepens its creamy sweet acidity - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
As Hope's sweet visions fade away - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Obsessed with a sweet emotion - Risalet Merdan "Bitter Pomegranate" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Deep excess of liquor sweet - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
The fresh young sense of Sweet - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Breathe in its sweet persistence - Helena Mesa "Legend"
Posturing kisses gone astray for scattered sweets - Alice Meynell "The Fold"
Sweet garden of a thousand years - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
The sound of cold sweet water - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet V from Second April
Sweet magnolia bloom embalmed in dews - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"
In solemn troops and sweet societies - John Milton "Lycidas"
Some sweet mouth is full of song - Robert Montgomery "Beautiful Influences" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
And through sweet Nature's ruin trace her own - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Forcing rash sweetness on sage ocean's brine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Should I find the sweeter fruits of dream - William Moore "Expectancy"
Sweet vowels of shadow - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Sweet as cakes of yesteryear - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Sweet days upon the oats - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Ripened to a distant sweetness - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
By field and fold and sweet wet wood - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"
This maze of blossom and sweet air - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"
We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
At a wedding overflowing with sweet wine - Mari Ness "Sisters"
A honeyed image is still sweet - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Primed with promises of sweet rewards - Grace Nichols "Battle"
Sweeter than Euphrosyne's tongue - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The sweet siren of the woods - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
As sweet as the breath of night - Meredith Nicholson "The Shepherd's Song"
Full of voices strange and sweet - Sarah Noble-Ives "Beginnings"
Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
The oldest dust of it is sweetest - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Uncovering the same sweet dust - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"
Our tea has trouble being sweet - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"
Their factories of sweetness - Mary Oliver "Roses, Late Summer"
One more sweet-as-honey answer - Mary Oliver "Something"
The sweet, electric drowse of creation - Mary Oliver "Sometimes"
The dark pinprick well of sweetness - Mary Oliver "This World"
With its sweet clamor of passion - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"
The sweet ache of crab still bright - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
Summoned me to something sweet - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Gained sweetness from thy voice - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
The autumn sweetness of thine eye - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
By the sweet, wild twist of her song - "The Outlaw of Loch Lene" transl. by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
Sweet chords strained and jangled - John Oxenham "All's Well"
For the sweet oil is low - John Oxenham "Nightfall"
A sweetness of concentration - Grace Paley "Anti-Love Poem"
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Ring sweet as a chime of gold - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"
Sweetly tint the paling lies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"
Lilacs blossom just as sweet - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Spices spring in sweet array - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Sunlight in sweet April hours - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Skipping stones into that sweet vanishing point - Andre F. Peltier "Dissolving Daylight Sundae"
Where drowsy sprites sip clover-sweets - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"
Nothing sweeter than sincerity - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
Replacing the sour with sweet - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
All the sweetness of old days - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Sweet taboo silhouetted against red temptation - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
The sweetest vintage at last turns sour - Po-Chu-i "Children" (translated by Arthur Waley)
A world of sweets and sours - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"
Dazed all the dark with sweetness - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
In the tender compassion that sweetly consoles - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Life promises only one sweet memory - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
Now sweeter for a bitter past - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
Sweet with breath of musk - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Night in Italy"
Sweet are the silent places - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Sweet rhythmic utterance unknown - Theodore H. Rand "To W."
Into the sweet and salt mix of waters - Paisley Rekdal "Vessels"
to keep the sweetness in our mouths - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"
Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
Sweet thoughts and beautiful - John Rollin Ridge "Random Thoughts of Her"
Sweet as many roses on one stem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Sweet inquisition of light - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Piping in silvery thin sweet staccato - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
And the song continues sweet - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
This spicy air and twilight sweet - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"
Sweet grace of low replies - Rennell Rodd "Requiescat"
Wonders to sweet music set - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"
A sweet still night of the vintage time - Rennell Rodd "Where the Rhone Goes Down to the Sea"
Music too sweet for words to speak - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Where love's sweet offerings fall - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
The natural and sweet continuance of days - Alice Wellington Rollins "Many Things Thou Hast Given Me, Dear Heart"
The rose of love bewilderingly sweet - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Rose"
The sweetest flow'r that gems the wild - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
But love can gather the sweetest honey - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Sweet as a pale, courageous star - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"
The sweetness of the mind's control - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"
Gather a store of sweet delight - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
Half so sweet to memory's eye - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "To the Pine Tree" transl. either by the poet or by her husband
Sweet atomic absolution of our myriad sins - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Of bitter and of sweet the fullest store - Clinton Scollard "A Symphony of the Sea (Gloze Royal)"
Sweet the linnet sing repose - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"
Some sweet but dangerous morsel - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"
The sweet smell of weeds - Diane Seuss "Weeds"
Their substance still lives sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Sweets with sweets war not - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"
Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
The wide world and all her fading sweets - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"
Sessions of sweet silent thought - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"
Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"
In your sweet thoughts would be forgot - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Too much rent for compound sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"
To mark the sweetness of the sudden hour - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Wakened into echoes sweet - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Offering sweet incense to the sunrise - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Sweet thoughts in a dream - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"
With sweet long futures - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Scallop Shell"
Savored every second sickly sweet - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
Clog my arteries with sweet nothings - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
Sweeter than the Sirens - Paulus Silentarius "241. ["Farewell" is on my tongue]" (translated by William Roger Paton)
a question toward blood sweetened lips - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Wisely one sweet instrument to choose - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Walk vectors of sweet nothings - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
Honey is sweetness and fear - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
Those fields where the dust is sweet - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger
A sweet lie in the cold, cold air - Gary Soto "San Francisco Fog"
This unbarred stronghold of sweet gold - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Mellowed with bitter and sweet words - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"
To sweeter portions of the dream - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"
What sweetly stolen hours - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
That no memory can sweeten - George Sterling "The First Food"
An ivory poison, sweet and cold - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
On the sweet and drowsy air - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
These salt hands holding sweetness - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"
Lulled by his flute's sweet sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Soft with sweet cadence - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
The bitter taste ensuing on the sweet - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
If such sweet and bitter things be done - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
All essences of sweetness - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
A sweet wind bears it company - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Never lost except to prove the sweetness - Edward Thomas "Tall Nettles"
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Sweet voices come to me like light - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
From which sweetness used to run - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Flesh and Blood"
With speed and sweetness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Sweeter than ghostly music - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"
And give sweetness back - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Sweet trophy of life's morning - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
As bees drink the sweets from a cluster of flowers - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
A sheet of golden water, cold and sweet - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Grows sweet with peace - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"
For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"
Another sweet and necessary day - Susan Varon "The Gentle Dark"
Be intoxicated with its sweetness - "VII: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Unleash their sweetest wrongs - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Threw sweet love upon the winds - Charles William Wallace "The Lone Wayside Wild Rose"
Sweet Passion's inward storms - Charles William Wallace "Madrigal"
Amidst the clover sweet with dew - Nixon Waterman "Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin' About Mary and Her Pet Lamb"
We take our roots and country sweets - Mary Webb "Market Day"
Sweet prismatic splinter and swing - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Sweetness lingers on time's yellowed page - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
New promise every day of sweetness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Yielded her heart's sweet strife - Helen Hay Whitney "The Love of the Rose"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Sweet is the music that Memory flings - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
A premonition of the first sweet bite - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
With heart prepared to find the contrast sweet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]
Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Little loaves of sweet smells - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Sweet smells from a white sky - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Music in her sweetest key - George Wither "Vanished Blessings"
My honey is not always sweet - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"
Sweet fancies meet me singing - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
For all sweet sounds and harmonies - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Sweet yeast for the yellow dust - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Though sweet the careless warbler sing - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Where the herbage is like sweet ointment - "XXII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A valley compassed with sweet sound - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Almost as sweet as the thought - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
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In melancholy drowsy-sweet - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"
Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"
The sweetheart of the sun - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
To catch the sweetheart wind - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Having sweethearts, but no wives - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Glance of the eye and sweetheart's sigh - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"
A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
Meal planning with a sweet tooth - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
No sweet-voiced bird will sing - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Drench and immerse my unsweetened ego - Hailey Leithauser "In Praise of Flattery"
A wild-sweet wonder of yesterday - Herbert Randall "Hills o' My Heart"
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Under the sweet breath of branches - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Expired like bruised sweet herbs - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"
Swimming up the sweet air to reach you - Kim Addonizio "Mermaid Song"
Sweet chant of the wild-birds' morning hymn - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
Bind true elegance with sweet utility - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Nature's forces all in sweet subjection bend - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Adds one more sweet hymn - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Sweeter than fancy dreams of - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VI--Summer"
Sweet sings the missel-thrush amid the crash - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
For food they gave him honey sweet - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring
More sweet than amber honey - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Discover fragrance of such sweet power - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Sweet bandit of my soul - Atticus "Magic in Love"
And the fig tree will ache with sweetness - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"
World made sweet with thyme - Albion Fellows Bacon "Her Title-Deeds"
Sweet those inscrutable untruths - Mary Jo Bang "Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out"
Warm, sugar sweet, and wormwood bitter - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"
Sweet Finesse and her cold friend, Necessity - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
Into love's sweet looking glass - Mary Jo Bang "She Loved Falling"
Building sweet music high above - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
And sweet dreams until dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
beneath the crystal scent sweet leaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"
Gathering sweetness for the future - Ardelia Maria Barton "Reverie"
A sweet flower for the bee - Ardelia Maria Barton "We Know What the Harvest Will Be"
Till liquid sweetness stirs the air - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"
Their lofty domes are sweet - Cora C. Bass "Spare the Trees"
Sweet and bitter waters - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"
Sweet poison mixed by angels - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
The sweets of forgetfulness prove - James Beattie "The Hermit"
Sweet powers of solitude and song - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Caresses too sugared to be sweet - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lost Lights"
And scattered in sweet wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
The sadness and sweetness of far evening bells - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
The implicit sweetness of speed - Joshua Bennett "Preface to a Twenty-Volume Regicide Note"
Believed in the sweetness of salt - Terry Blackhawk "Lot's Wife"
Suffered and sweetly mended nets of abundance - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Sung sweet beneath the coming dawn - Jari Bradley "Boihood"
With wine of sweet companionship - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
One sweet breath of memory - Anne Bronte "Memory"
All the sweet thoughts I live on - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"
With hoarded sweets replenished - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Midnight rest may still be sweet - Emily Bronte "Self-Interrogation"
But not sweeter than the song - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
And made her pillow sweet - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
With words so sweet and dense - Lauren L. Brown "Willie Mae Brown (1909-1980)"
The sweet solace is a river bed - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
The heart does smell thee sweet - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
In fountains of sweet sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
And memory brings her sweetest stores - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
Among bones white and sweet - Rebecca Buchanan "The First Morning in May"
Toward the sweet scent of oncoming storm - Sue Budin "Reclamation"
To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Start abrupt in Joy's sweet neighborhood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The most forbidden of sweets - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Sleep by the sweet wild twist of her song - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"
Enough to feel that sweet steady rhythm - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Moonlight in sweet overflow - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"
Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
Like sweet bells jangled - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles II"
Mingled in sweet symphony - "The Cascade"
Sweeter thy honey lips - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
The rich, wild sweetness of her song - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Her lantern glows amidst sweet eglantine - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Only the sweet ghost of his melody - Willa Cather "Eurydice"
Repair comes with sweetness - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
One far fierce hour and sweet - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"
Song is sweet in a lonely place - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Sweet in fond longings - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
That sweet music of deliverance - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"
Deserves such sweet levitation - Billy Collins "Putti in the Night"
As sweetly as it was named - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
The sweetness of my dreams - Hilda Conkling "About My Dreams"
A hollow sweet to rest in - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"
Answered me sweetly - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"
Another kind of sweetness - Hilda Conkling "Hay-Cock"
Sweet harmonies of hue - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
Bitter drop in bloom and sweet - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
From the sweet state of panic - Rasheed Copeland "When Puffy says, and we won't stop, 'cause we can't stop"
Where voices low and sweet the hours beguiled - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
That was sweet to my soul - Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. "My Song"
Bloom more sweet than Asphodel - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
How bitter sweet the sound - Brody Parrish Craig "Baby You Ever Seen a Wretch Like Me?"
The feet of the sweet winds - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"
Sweetness spilled from a million petals - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
Sweet bleeding into salt salt drinking in sweet - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Sweet cakes and honey and wine - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
The sweet Lark shall sing unheard - Rev. William Crowe "The British Theatre. Written in 1775"
The sweetest of windswept memories - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
All sweet things that flourish - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
A costly morsel of sweet tears - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
That some sweet accident might yet release - Olive Custance "A Dream"
Your sweetness is more cruel - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
Makes bitter poison into sweet - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"
Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
Sweet to a heart unentangled and light - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"
A sweet needle that gathers the fraying threat - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"
Share the remnant sweetness - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Sweet requiem for the countless dead - Kwame Dawes "Requiem"
Warbled sweetly strange enchanted words - Walter de la Mare "As Lucy Went a-Walking"
While the sweet swallow bends her wings - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
Only Pan singing sweet - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
The sweets of life's luxuriant May - Garcilaso de Vega "Coyed de vuestra alegre primavera" translated by Felicia Hemans
For they were sweet in sowing - Aubrey de Vere "Human Life"
With the star charts of a sweetness - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Sweet birds in ignorant cadence - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"
A brief campaign of sting and sweet - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LI"
Listen to the sweet tones of glory - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
And your pipe sweetly playing - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]
Sweet if the heart so dares - Dom "Risking for a Sign"
In dreamless slumber sweet - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Ladye Chapel at Eden Hall"
His silence sweet with sounds - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Paeans sweeter than a seraph's voice - Julia C.R. Dorr "Hymn to Life"
That sweet strain of hours - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"
Hopes grown most sweet - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
The sweet star of your queen - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
A sweet with floods of gall - William Drummond "Sonnet"
Which turn my sweets to sours - William Drummond "Sonnet"
And in thy sweet chains caught - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
Gulfs of sweetness without bound - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"
The sweetest form of courage - Margarita Engle "First Friend"
Sweet as the sound of a calf - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 14. E-Gida, the Temple of Ninazu in Enegir" transl. by Sophus Helle
Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"
Too sweet painsong in passages of night - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 28"
And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Sweet deceiving lock me in delight - John Fletcher "Right Good Is Rest"
Knows but the sweet survival of an hour - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Sweet and delightful are in loneliness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
Change their sweets to bitter burning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
The sweetest dream that labor knows - Robert Frost "Mowing"
The sweet of bitter bark and burning clove - Robert Frost "To Earthward"
And freshen in this air of withering sweetness - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Prodigal of sweetness - Zona Gale "By My Side All Day Another Went"
For one sweet flash of time - Zona Gale "I Wandered Where the Wonder of the Sky--"
In a sweet flash of arrowy sun - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
All things sweet and bitter meet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
The silver of a thousand sweet moons - Nikita Gill "When Love Dies"
A dusty sweetness under fictive eyes - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
Sweeter far a thousand times - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Webbed with sweet-smelling herbs - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"
Sweetly drifting on thick tides of oil and pennies - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Dew droppings sweet from starry spheres - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Music rained down ineffably sweet - Herbert H. Gowen "The Little Grey Lamb"
The blackbird's hymn is sweet - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"
Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
In loose numbers wildly sweet - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
The sweet tranquility of marching silences - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Greece"
Although their coaxing is sweet - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"
In that hot sweet hour - Radclyffe Hall "On the Hill-Side"
Love's sweet share of selfishness - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
The sweet and bitter gods who walk beside us - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
A sip or two of sweet summer - Avis Harley "Sipping Supper"
Sweet as the dollar's chime - Frances E.W. Harper "Going East"
The same sweet music - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
The first knowledge of sweetness - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Sweet as a gratified whim - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
The first bite is neither sweet nor bitter - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
And a sweet hope gilds the future - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"
So sweet and bitter fancy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"
Sweet as the dusty roses - F.W. Harvey "On Over Bridge at Evening"
His insolent envy of sweet death - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet II (from Farewell)"
Sweets in a sticky parade - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
With a decadent sweet art - Seamus Heaney "Aisling"
The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital IV. Before"
The sweetness distilled of my strength - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
The budding trees all honey sweet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Farewell"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
But what is sweet in sorrow - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"
Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Twist with the sweet of mangos - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"
The sweet conjunctions that astonish us - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"
Each soul becomes a fount of sweet content - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"
While seeking clover sweet - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Bee"
The char of ordinary sweetness - Jane Hirshfield "As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us"
Picking a dish of sweet berries and plums - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Our lips sent up so sweet a chime - Elizabeth Curtis Holman "We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time"
Freedom's sweet keynote and commission-word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Where the sweet hawthorn blossoms - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"
Sweet as purple dew - Langston Hughes "Midnight Dancer"
That sweetly dreams itself away - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"
Cull the various sweet songs - "I: Cuicapeuhcayotl | Song at the Beginning" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Its sweet sunshine withholds - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"
Sweet to my dark ruined heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Left the sweet day behind - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
Drop sweetness like the ripening peach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
All mysteries sad and sweet - Elinor Jenkins "Veronica"
These sweet and acid gifts - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Sweetness as well as incense from the urn - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Alcohol as sweet as honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "When Miss Lucy Sings"
With all its fancied sweetness missed - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
The sweet, dulcet pipes of tomorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"
That last, sweet waltz with you - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"
Held in trance by the sweet air - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Sleep beneath her sweetest airs - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"
Sweetening into the blue velvet - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"
Sweet rosemary within the lane - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Remembrance"
Remembrance of such sweetness on the tongue - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"
So different from sweets of home - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
A sleep full of sweet dreams - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Cull time's sweet first-fruits - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Found me roots of relish sweet - John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Dew so sweet and virulent - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"
The sweetest flower wild nature yields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"
Fraught with whispering sweet - John Keble "Fire"
Sweet epitaphs of vines and violets - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Sweet scraps of that immortal song - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
Sweet kindred of my exiled soul - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
Spirit of all sweet sounds - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"
Life's sweetest buds fall withered - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Wind of the wild sweet morning - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"
Sweet and bleak under a halo of stars - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
The Cup with sweet or bitter run - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Not even April's taste is sweet - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
A valley sweet with rose and vine - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"
Stunned by sweetness - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"
No word more bitter than sweet honey - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
All the sweet buttermilk watered the plain - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
With sweetness shivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Body Remembers"
Sweet with their timeless perfume - Ted Kooser "Mother"
Let the fruit taste of sweetness and dust - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Whose memory makes them sweet - Archibald Lampman "Between the Rapids"
Sweet sleep in carven stone - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
Sweet medicine for all distress - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
Sing sweet songs to our mother - Archibald Lampman "Song of the Stream-Drops"
If my soul have no sweet song - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"
Biddings of sweet power - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Sweet voices and words bright - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
Sweetest when unsought - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
In sweetest opposition to the endless - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
A sweet elixir tendering me to sleep - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Sweet herbs from all antiquity - Sidney Lanier "The Stirrup-Cup"
The harsh sweetness of strange words - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"
Made of sweet, untarnished silver - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Pass the sweet fire of day - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
This bright drink of heady music, sweet as hell - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"
Sweet saint of sin - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"
In the land of forbidden sweet - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"
Sweet dreams their cobwebs spin - Ida Lee "The Homestead"
Their malady sweet will vanish - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Reaching into unforeseen sweetness - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Spices like sharp sweet swords - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
The sweetest song since the demons fell - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
A prophet of sweet oracles - Arthur John Lockhart "The Lonely Pine"
And wild and sweet the words repeat - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Christmas Bells"
Sweet as the songs of Sappho - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
May give us hopes that sweeten Darwin - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Dreams of sweet delirium - Thomas Lynch "Lessons from Berkeley"
Burying melancholy with jasmine and sweet osmanthus - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Sweet sisters of the moonbeams - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
His breath was sweet as dusk to me - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"
Your sweet and sad complaints - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
Sipping moonshine and and sweet sable wine - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"
Of magical, sweet surprise - Katherine Mansfield "Voices of the Air"
Sweet-peas with wings for flight - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
And fettered him with woodbine sweet - Philip Bourke Marston "Love Asleep"
Sweet nectar out of weed and cloud - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
A sweet doctrine for a broken heart - John Masefield "King Cole"
Who make salt sweet - John Masefield "King Cole"
Shy like a fawn and sweet - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Friends that deserved a sweeter bed - John Masefield "Waste"
Sweet and cold as the wine of apples - Edgar Lee Masters "Johnny Appleseed"
Toward some ripe, sweetened pause - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Dim shrines of sweet forgotten art - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
Your hands that are sweeter than honey - Theodore Maynard "The Joy of the World"
Can yield to melody's sweet spell - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
The sweet knees of oxen have pressed a path - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
Sweet with the golden threads - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
As the coffee deepens its creamy sweet acidity - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
As Hope's sweet visions fade away - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Obsessed with a sweet emotion - Risalet Merdan "Bitter Pomegranate" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Deep excess of liquor sweet - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
The fresh young sense of Sweet - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Breathe in its sweet persistence - Helena Mesa "Legend"
Posturing kisses gone astray for scattered sweets - Alice Meynell "The Fold"
Sweet garden of a thousand years - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
The sound of cold sweet water - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet V from Second April
Sweet magnolia bloom embalmed in dews - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"
In solemn troops and sweet societies - John Milton "Lycidas"
Some sweet mouth is full of song - Robert Montgomery "Beautiful Influences" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
And through sweet Nature's ruin trace her own - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Forcing rash sweetness on sage ocean's brine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Should I find the sweeter fruits of dream - William Moore "Expectancy"
Sweet vowels of shadow - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Sweet as cakes of yesteryear - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Sweet days upon the oats - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Ripened to a distant sweetness - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
By field and fold and sweet wet wood - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"
This maze of blossom and sweet air - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"
We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
At a wedding overflowing with sweet wine - Mari Ness "Sisters"
A honeyed image is still sweet - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Primed with promises of sweet rewards - Grace Nichols "Battle"
Sweeter than Euphrosyne's tongue - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The sweet siren of the woods - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
As sweet as the breath of night - Meredith Nicholson "The Shepherd's Song"
Full of voices strange and sweet - Sarah Noble-Ives "Beginnings"
Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
The oldest dust of it is sweetest - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Uncovering the same sweet dust - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"
Our tea has trouble being sweet - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"
Their factories of sweetness - Mary Oliver "Roses, Late Summer"
One more sweet-as-honey answer - Mary Oliver "Something"
The sweet, electric drowse of creation - Mary Oliver "Sometimes"
The dark pinprick well of sweetness - Mary Oliver "This World"
With its sweet clamor of passion - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"
The sweet ache of crab still bright - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
Summoned me to something sweet - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Gained sweetness from thy voice - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
The autumn sweetness of thine eye - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
By the sweet, wild twist of her song - "The Outlaw of Loch Lene" transl. by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
Sweet chords strained and jangled - John Oxenham "All's Well"
For the sweet oil is low - John Oxenham "Nightfall"
A sweetness of concentration - Grace Paley "Anti-Love Poem"
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Ring sweet as a chime of gold - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"
Sweetly tint the paling lies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"
Lilacs blossom just as sweet - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Spices spring in sweet array - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Sunlight in sweet April hours - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Skipping stones into that sweet vanishing point - Andre F. Peltier "Dissolving Daylight Sundae"
Where drowsy sprites sip clover-sweets - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"
Nothing sweeter than sincerity - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
Replacing the sour with sweet - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
All the sweetness of old days - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Sweet taboo silhouetted against red temptation - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
The sweetest vintage at last turns sour - Po-Chu-i "Children" (translated by Arthur Waley)
A world of sweets and sours - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"
Dazed all the dark with sweetness - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
In the tender compassion that sweetly consoles - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Life promises only one sweet memory - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
Now sweeter for a bitter past - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
Sweet with breath of musk - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Night in Italy"
Sweet are the silent places - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Sweet rhythmic utterance unknown - Theodore H. Rand "To W."
Into the sweet and salt mix of waters - Paisley Rekdal "Vessels"
to keep the sweetness in our mouths - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"
Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
Sweet thoughts and beautiful - John Rollin Ridge "Random Thoughts of Her"
Sweet as many roses on one stem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Sweet inquisition of light - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Piping in silvery thin sweet staccato - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
And the song continues sweet - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
This spicy air and twilight sweet - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"
Sweet grace of low replies - Rennell Rodd "Requiescat"
Wonders to sweet music set - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"
A sweet still night of the vintage time - Rennell Rodd "Where the Rhone Goes Down to the Sea"
Music too sweet for words to speak - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Where love's sweet offerings fall - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
The natural and sweet continuance of days - Alice Wellington Rollins "Many Things Thou Hast Given Me, Dear Heart"
The rose of love bewilderingly sweet - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Rose"
The sweetest flow'r that gems the wild - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
But love can gather the sweetest honey - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Sweet as a pale, courageous star - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"
The sweetness of the mind's control - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"
Gather a store of sweet delight - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
Half so sweet to memory's eye - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "To the Pine Tree" transl. either by the poet or by her husband
Sweet atomic absolution of our myriad sins - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Of bitter and of sweet the fullest store - Clinton Scollard "A Symphony of the Sea (Gloze Royal)"
Sweet the linnet sing repose - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"
Some sweet but dangerous morsel - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"
The sweet smell of weeds - Diane Seuss "Weeds"
Their substance still lives sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Sweets with sweets war not - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"
Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
The wide world and all her fading sweets - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"
Sessions of sweet silent thought - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"
Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"
In your sweet thoughts would be forgot - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Too much rent for compound sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"
To mark the sweetness of the sudden hour - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Wakened into echoes sweet - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Offering sweet incense to the sunrise - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Sweet thoughts in a dream - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"
With sweet long futures - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Scallop Shell"
Savored every second sickly sweet - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
Clog my arteries with sweet nothings - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
Sweeter than the Sirens - Paulus Silentarius "241. ["Farewell" is on my tongue]" (translated by William Roger Paton)
a question toward blood sweetened lips - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Wisely one sweet instrument to choose - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Walk vectors of sweet nothings - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
Honey is sweetness and fear - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
Those fields where the dust is sweet - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger
A sweet lie in the cold, cold air - Gary Soto "San Francisco Fog"
This unbarred stronghold of sweet gold - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Mellowed with bitter and sweet words - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"
To sweeter portions of the dream - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"
What sweetly stolen hours - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
That no memory can sweeten - George Sterling "The First Food"
An ivory poison, sweet and cold - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
On the sweet and drowsy air - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
These salt hands holding sweetness - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"
Lulled by his flute's sweet sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Soft with sweet cadence - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
The bitter taste ensuing on the sweet - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
If such sweet and bitter things be done - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
All essences of sweetness - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
A sweet wind bears it company - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Never lost except to prove the sweetness - Edward Thomas "Tall Nettles"
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Sweet voices come to me like light - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
From which sweetness used to run - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Flesh and Blood"
With speed and sweetness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Sweeter than ghostly music - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"
And give sweetness back - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Sweet trophy of life's morning - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
As bees drink the sweets from a cluster of flowers - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
A sheet of golden water, cold and sweet - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Grows sweet with peace - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"
For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"
Another sweet and necessary day - Susan Varon "The Gentle Dark"
Be intoxicated with its sweetness - "VII: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Unleash their sweetest wrongs - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Threw sweet love upon the winds - Charles William Wallace "The Lone Wayside Wild Rose"
Sweet Passion's inward storms - Charles William Wallace "Madrigal"
Amidst the clover sweet with dew - Nixon Waterman "Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin' About Mary and Her Pet Lamb"
We take our roots and country sweets - Mary Webb "Market Day"
Sweet prismatic splinter and swing - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Sweetness lingers on time's yellowed page - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
New promise every day of sweetness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Yielded her heart's sweet strife - Helen Hay Whitney "The Love of the Rose"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Sweet is the music that Memory flings - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
A premonition of the first sweet bite - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
With heart prepared to find the contrast sweet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]
Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Little loaves of sweet smells - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Sweet smells from a white sky - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Music in her sweetest key - George Wither "Vanished Blessings"
My honey is not always sweet - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"
Sweet fancies meet me singing - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
For all sweet sounds and harmonies - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Sweet yeast for the yellow dust - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Though sweet the careless warbler sing - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Where the herbage is like sweet ointment - "XXII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A valley compassed with sweet sound - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Almost as sweet as the thought - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
Bittersweet.
In melancholy drowsy-sweet - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"
Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"
The sweetheart of the sun - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
To catch the sweetheart wind - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Having sweethearts, but no wives - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Glance of the eye and sweetheart's sigh - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"
A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
Meal planning with a sweet tooth - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
No sweet-voiced bird will sing - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Drench and immerse my unsweetened ego - Hailey Leithauser "In Praise of Flattery"
A wild-sweet wonder of yesterday - Herbert Randall "Hills o' My Heart"
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