Potential Titles: Wander
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somethingdarkerWho wanders through the dark to find - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Wander in and out of material and void - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Streets of wine and wandering - Maya Angelou "Lady Luncheon Club"
The people who wandered into night - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"
Undone by wandering thoughts - Simon Armitage "Avalon"
Lilies the wind wanders over - F.D. Ashburn "Song [You roses that lean away]"
Wander among fragments of gods - Margaret Atwood "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum"
Wandered through the forests of the south - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Wandered in the uttermost abyss - Maurice Baring "Dostoyevsky"
Wanders like a whispering stream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
A wanderer from the sense of sight - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Wander through a tangled wood - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited
A wandering heart drives them to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Wandering ships outwearied - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
I shall wander on the starry brink - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"
What mournful musics wander over it - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
I wandered witlessly through miracle - William Rose Benét "The City"
Angels wander as they hymn - Paul Bewsher "Clouds"
Wanders one step toward the stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
In our combined lifetimes of wandering - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
The fickle breeze may wander free - Francis Ernest Bradley "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.25-v.1, 21 June 1884]
Will cheer me for my wanderings past - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"
To be the wanderer's guiding-star - Emily Bronte "The Visionary"
Dream footsteps wandering past us - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Though the footsteps have wandered beyond recall - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"
Wandered over all earth's lands - J. Crosby Brown, Jr. "Sonnet"
A hundred different ways to wander off - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Dismal spirits doomed to wander - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Winter"
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Meet what you have wandered far to find - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"
The purpose of our wandering and our woe - Frank Oliver Call "Eternity"
Wanders its mazes among - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"
Would cease to wander in forbidden paths - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Ne'er shall I wander at morning or eve - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
A homeless, wandering nightingale - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall
Out of heroic wanderings - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Wander through a haunted mind - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"
How many a wanderer to the skies it turned - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Who had wandered a weary mile - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Of the heart when it wanders on - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Like two loose comets wandering - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
As I wander in my time - Leonard Cohen "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
The boundaries of my wandering - Leonard Cohen "This Is for You"
Another tribe of wanderers, shepherds of loss - Andrea Cote "Dear Beth" transl. by Sasha Pimentel
Wandering down the latitudes - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"
To Eden wandered in - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"
My body is a place-holder for my wandering soul - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]
Slow cows wandering home to their sunset - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Each reference is a wandering - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
Wandering the wings of a ghost-run factory - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The lone executive who has wandered this far into summer - Rita Dove "Vacation"
And wander through the fields in raptures sweet - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Lonely wanderer by wood and shore - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
All rapt on its wild wandering - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Nor with bold Dante wander in amaze - Maurice F. Egan "The Chrysalis of a Bookworm" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
The ghost of Hamlet's father wandering through - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
My wandering steps arrest - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
The wandering thought from Lethe's shores - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Poor wanderer on the deep - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
Wanders time's arid trajectory - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani
In halls of sleep you wandered - Arthur Davison Ficke "Among Shadows"
Nor was the houseless wanderer e'er driven from his hall - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Wander towards chaos and drop into hell - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Wander the groves of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
Will wander between the winds forever - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
That in dreams I may wander freer - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
My wandering steps impel - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
Only the wandering air that grows with dawn - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Danced along their wanton wanderings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
Wandered with heavy hours on hand - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Wandered the silent ruins of my city - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
All my wanderings round this world of care - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"
Wandering through the silent castle - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Daughter"
And all your wandering grace - Ivor Gurney "Fire in the Dusk"
The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
How long ago you started to wander - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
Ask why the seaweed wanders - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
Wander the morning in circles - Michael Heffernan "Save Yourself"
A wandering soul betrays - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Wandered through your many destinations - Tony Hoagland "The Classics"
Wind up the wandering breeze - Robert Hogg "Oh, What Are the Chains of Love Made Of?"
Child of the wandering sea - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
When in the woods I wander - Edward Hovell-Thurlow "The Sylvan Life"
And wander in a larger Doubt - Richard Hughes "Felo de Se"
Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"
In vice they should wander astray - "Improvement" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Wander like thieves into windows - Allison Eir Jenks "After the Parade"
Wandering by the carefree stream - Fenton Johnson "The Miracle"
The wandering stars of midnight - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Wandering flames and thunders - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Wander weeping through empty halls - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 5" transl. by Burton Watson
Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
Wander hand in hand with Thought - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"
Wander through this dismal earth - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"
That you wander forth alone - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"
See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"
A wanderer in enchanted lands - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Our wandering steps and wistful eyes - Archibald Lampman "September"
dionysus prances on wandering goat feet - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Wandering through the Promised Land - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
A wind-shadow wandering over the water - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Running Barefoot"
But mark the wandering glances of his eye - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
And once more meet each object in my wandering gaze - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
To wanderer lone a useful guide - Lermontof "The Dagger" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson
Long-wandered in the weather - Ada Limon "To the Busted Among Us"
The wounds that come with wanderings - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Wander from Scotland to some darker sky - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
That brought the wandering outcast home - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Fountain-Springs"
Whereon the wild goats wander fearlessly and free - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Those eyes of wandering fire - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
Will wander the ruins of the sun - Anthony Madrid "Kiskindhakanda"
Wild fields to wander through - Douglas Malloch "Children of the Spring"
Wander in pristine darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"
Eternal April wandering alone - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Drives the lovely soul to wander - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"
Wandering in the city of loneliness - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (10)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Wander in a fog of words astray - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"
Wandering unregarded through the cosmos - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Differently, quietly wandering - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
The wandering passion of our feet - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Which strays and wanders among the reeds - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
And winds are wandering to repose - T. Moore "The Humming-Bird"
In a maze of bars invisible I wander far from the feast - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Wandering from one body to ash - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet - Sarojini Naidu "Wandering Singers"
Uses up his wandering heart - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
And Hope wanders lost - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
A thirst that wanders - Hoa Nguyen "Ficus Carica Sonnet"
His last disciple's wandering son - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Two travel stained wanderers - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
A shadow wandering at the boundary of light - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"
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
Wandered through a field of abandoned furniture - Gregory Orr "Pastoral"
As the wanderer pursues his way - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
Are but shards we wandered through - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
Untamed by all its fatal wanderings - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"
Wrong to wander inward - Xan Forest Phillips "Opulence"
Wandering souls in a state of probation - James E. Pickering "The Call of the Mountains"
Before the wanderers on the wastes of time - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Wandering the craft store aisles - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
Wander slow down the shadow street - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"
Some weary wanderer knocking - Alexander Pushkin "A Winter Evening" (translated by Martha Dickinson Bianchi)
Nature wooeth back no wanderer to her arms - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Wanders through the clustered hops - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XV: The Ledbury Train"
In a lonely wood I wandered once - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Where no wasp wanders in - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"
Your tired feet will wander bare - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
In the beggary of their wandering - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
But we went from the sorrowful city and wandered - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
All stormy ways and wanderings - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Which wanders where the Clouds are strewn - Sir Ronald Ross "The Frog, the Fairy, and the Moon: Dedicated to Lovers"
Beyond the wandering moon - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"
We are kings for all our wanderings - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"
Those delicate wanderers - "Sacrifice"
The wind of the lake shore waits and wanders - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
My heart wanders with you - Margaret E. Sangster "Two Lullabies: II. Poppy Land"
I wandered the asphodel stars - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Of Argo's wandering keel - Clinton Scollard "A Symphony of the Sea (Gloze Royal)"
Over the whale's acre, would wander wide - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Take the torch and go wandering - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
With wounded feet we cease from wandering - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Dead moons that wander - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
Brief embodiment of wandering will - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Who confuses wondering with wandering - Maggie Smith "Apologue (1)"
Wandered off alone and unheard of - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"
Wherever Cupid might wander - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Melodious wanderings in leafy refuge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
Some strange and wandering sound - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Wander on the sands of doom - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
A wandering echo in the night of Change - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
The wandering phantom bride - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
Gone wandering with my eyes - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The wandering of your clock - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Would gladly wander in Paradise - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Gentle footsteps wandered near to mine - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Earth wounded stranger that wandered - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]
My thoughts their wanderings ended - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
His feet ill-starred in ways erroneous wandered - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
A sly wander from the course unchosen - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
Premonition wanders through the corridors - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
With all her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
And timid breaths of vernal air go wandering - Henry van Dyke "When Tulips Bloom"
Wandering in another tense - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
Wander far and falter - Bertrand N. O. Walker "A Desert Memory"
Nothing left but the beauty of wandering - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
There's stillness in my wandering - Wang An-Shih "Anchored at Abandon River" transl. by David Hinton
Wind-scoured silence I wander all year - Wang An-Shih "The Ancient Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Wander uneasy on tower heights - Wang An-Shih "On Tower Heights" transl. by David Hinton
This road between Presence and Absence wanders - Wang An-Shih "Returning Home from Bell Mountain at Dusk, Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
Wandering through all that history-mist and cloud-blur - Wang An-Shih "Thinking of Golden-Tomb City Long Ago" transl. by David Hinton
How could rain be my own wandering? - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Half-Mountain Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
The wandering gleam that beckons and betrays - William Watson "Lux Perdita"
An untried wanderer on the wing - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Where lonely thoughts listen and wander - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Wandering through life's meadows - John Hall Wheelock "Long Ago"
Where the sea-winds only wander - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
Free to wander, and free to bide - A.D.T. Whitney "Along, Long, Long"
A lost star I wander down your sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"
Wanderer moon smiling - William Carlos Williams "Summer Song"
Under the lindens we wandered - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"
Or but a wandering Voice - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
Wandered naked among trysted swords - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Amid the wandering, starry mirth- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
A museum of natural wandering - Matthew Zapruder "What I Need"
The cough of a wandering bull - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 6" transl. by Katherine Silver
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Wander in and out of material and void - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Streets of wine and wandering - Maya Angelou "Lady Luncheon Club"
The people who wandered into night - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"
Undone by wandering thoughts - Simon Armitage "Avalon"
Lilies the wind wanders over - F.D. Ashburn "Song [You roses that lean away]"
Wander among fragments of gods - Margaret Atwood "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum"
Wandered through the forests of the south - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Wandered in the uttermost abyss - Maurice Baring "Dostoyevsky"
Wanders like a whispering stream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
A wanderer from the sense of sight - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Wander through a tangled wood - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited
A wandering heart drives them to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Wandering ships outwearied - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
I shall wander on the starry brink - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"
What mournful musics wander over it - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
I wandered witlessly through miracle - William Rose Benét "The City"
Angels wander as they hymn - Paul Bewsher "Clouds"
Wanders one step toward the stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
In our combined lifetimes of wandering - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
The fickle breeze may wander free - Francis Ernest Bradley "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.25-v.1, 21 June 1884]
Will cheer me for my wanderings past - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"
To be the wanderer's guiding-star - Emily Bronte "The Visionary"
Dream footsteps wandering past us - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Though the footsteps have wandered beyond recall - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"
Wandered over all earth's lands - J. Crosby Brown, Jr. "Sonnet"
A hundred different ways to wander off - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Dismal spirits doomed to wander - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Winter"
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Meet what you have wandered far to find - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"
The purpose of our wandering and our woe - Frank Oliver Call "Eternity"
Wanders its mazes among - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"
Would cease to wander in forbidden paths - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Ne'er shall I wander at morning or eve - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
A homeless, wandering nightingale - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall
Out of heroic wanderings - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Wander through a haunted mind - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"
How many a wanderer to the skies it turned - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Who had wandered a weary mile - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Of the heart when it wanders on - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Like two loose comets wandering - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
As I wander in my time - Leonard Cohen "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
The boundaries of my wandering - Leonard Cohen "This Is for You"
Another tribe of wanderers, shepherds of loss - Andrea Cote "Dear Beth" transl. by Sasha Pimentel
Wandering down the latitudes - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"
To Eden wandered in - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"
My body is a place-holder for my wandering soul - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]
Slow cows wandering home to their sunset - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Each reference is a wandering - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
Wandering the wings of a ghost-run factory - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The lone executive who has wandered this far into summer - Rita Dove "Vacation"
And wander through the fields in raptures sweet - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Lonely wanderer by wood and shore - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
All rapt on its wild wandering - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Nor with bold Dante wander in amaze - Maurice F. Egan "The Chrysalis of a Bookworm" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
The ghost of Hamlet's father wandering through - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
My wandering steps arrest - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
The wandering thought from Lethe's shores - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Poor wanderer on the deep - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
Wanders time's arid trajectory - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani
In halls of sleep you wandered - Arthur Davison Ficke "Among Shadows"
Nor was the houseless wanderer e'er driven from his hall - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Wander towards chaos and drop into hell - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Wander the groves of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
Will wander between the winds forever - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
That in dreams I may wander freer - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
My wandering steps impel - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
Only the wandering air that grows with dawn - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Danced along their wanton wanderings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
Wandered with heavy hours on hand - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Wandered the silent ruins of my city - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
All my wanderings round this world of care - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"
Wandering through the silent castle - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Daughter"
And all your wandering grace - Ivor Gurney "Fire in the Dusk"
The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
How long ago you started to wander - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
Ask why the seaweed wanders - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
Wander the morning in circles - Michael Heffernan "Save Yourself"
A wandering soul betrays - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Wandered through your many destinations - Tony Hoagland "The Classics"
Wind up the wandering breeze - Robert Hogg "Oh, What Are the Chains of Love Made Of?"
Child of the wandering sea - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
When in the woods I wander - Edward Hovell-Thurlow "The Sylvan Life"
And wander in a larger Doubt - Richard Hughes "Felo de Se"
Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"
In vice they should wander astray - "Improvement" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
Wander like thieves into windows - Allison Eir Jenks "After the Parade"
Wandering by the carefree stream - Fenton Johnson "The Miracle"
The wandering stars of midnight - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Wandering flames and thunders - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Wander weeping through empty halls - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 5" transl. by Burton Watson
Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
Wander hand in hand with Thought - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"
Wander through this dismal earth - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"
That you wander forth alone - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"
See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"
A wanderer in enchanted lands - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Our wandering steps and wistful eyes - Archibald Lampman "September"
dionysus prances on wandering goat feet - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Wandering through the Promised Land - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
A wind-shadow wandering over the water - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Running Barefoot"
But mark the wandering glances of his eye - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
And once more meet each object in my wandering gaze - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
To wanderer lone a useful guide - Lermontof "The Dagger" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson
Long-wandered in the weather - Ada Limon "To the Busted Among Us"
The wounds that come with wanderings - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Wander from Scotland to some darker sky - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
That brought the wandering outcast home - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Fountain-Springs"
Whereon the wild goats wander fearlessly and free - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Those eyes of wandering fire - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
Will wander the ruins of the sun - Anthony Madrid "Kiskindhakanda"
Wild fields to wander through - Douglas Malloch "Children of the Spring"
Wander in pristine darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"
Eternal April wandering alone - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Drives the lovely soul to wander - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"
Wandering in the city of loneliness - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (10)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Wander in a fog of words astray - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"
Wandering unregarded through the cosmos - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Differently, quietly wandering - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
The wandering passion of our feet - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Which strays and wanders among the reeds - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
And winds are wandering to repose - T. Moore "The Humming-Bird"
In a maze of bars invisible I wander far from the feast - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Wandering from one body to ash - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet - Sarojini Naidu "Wandering Singers"
Uses up his wandering heart - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
And Hope wanders lost - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
A thirst that wanders - Hoa Nguyen "Ficus Carica Sonnet"
His last disciple's wandering son - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Two travel stained wanderers - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
A shadow wandering at the boundary of light - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"
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
Wandered through a field of abandoned furniture - Gregory Orr "Pastoral"
As the wanderer pursues his way - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
Are but shards we wandered through - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
Untamed by all its fatal wanderings - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"
Wrong to wander inward - Xan Forest Phillips "Opulence"
Wandering souls in a state of probation - James E. Pickering "The Call of the Mountains"
Before the wanderers on the wastes of time - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Wandering the craft store aisles - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
Wander slow down the shadow street - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"
Some weary wanderer knocking - Alexander Pushkin "A Winter Evening" (translated by Martha Dickinson Bianchi)
Nature wooeth back no wanderer to her arms - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Wanders through the clustered hops - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XV: The Ledbury Train"
In a lonely wood I wandered once - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Where no wasp wanders in - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"
Your tired feet will wander bare - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
In the beggary of their wandering - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
But we went from the sorrowful city and wandered - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
All stormy ways and wanderings - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Which wanders where the Clouds are strewn - Sir Ronald Ross "The Frog, the Fairy, and the Moon: Dedicated to Lovers"
Beyond the wandering moon - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"
We are kings for all our wanderings - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"
Those delicate wanderers - "Sacrifice"
The wind of the lake shore waits and wanders - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
My heart wanders with you - Margaret E. Sangster "Two Lullabies: II. Poppy Land"
I wandered the asphodel stars - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Of Argo's wandering keel - Clinton Scollard "A Symphony of the Sea (Gloze Royal)"
Over the whale's acre, would wander wide - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Take the torch and go wandering - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
With wounded feet we cease from wandering - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Dead moons that wander - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
Brief embodiment of wandering will - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Who confuses wondering with wandering - Maggie Smith "Apologue (1)"
Wandered off alone and unheard of - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"
Wherever Cupid might wander - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Melodious wanderings in leafy refuge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
Some strange and wandering sound - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Wander on the sands of doom - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
A wandering echo in the night of Change - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
The wandering phantom bride - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
Gone wandering with my eyes - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The wandering of your clock - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Would gladly wander in Paradise - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Gentle footsteps wandered near to mine - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Earth wounded stranger that wandered - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]
My thoughts their wanderings ended - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
His feet ill-starred in ways erroneous wandered - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
A sly wander from the course unchosen - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
Premonition wanders through the corridors - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
With all her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
And timid breaths of vernal air go wandering - Henry van Dyke "When Tulips Bloom"
Wandering in another tense - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
Wander far and falter - Bertrand N. O. Walker "A Desert Memory"
Nothing left but the beauty of wandering - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
There's stillness in my wandering - Wang An-Shih "Anchored at Abandon River" transl. by David Hinton
Wind-scoured silence I wander all year - Wang An-Shih "The Ancient Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Wander uneasy on tower heights - Wang An-Shih "On Tower Heights" transl. by David Hinton
This road between Presence and Absence wanders - Wang An-Shih "Returning Home from Bell Mountain at Dusk, Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
Wandering through all that history-mist and cloud-blur - Wang An-Shih "Thinking of Golden-Tomb City Long Ago" transl. by David Hinton
How could rain be my own wandering? - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Half-Mountain Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
The wandering gleam that beckons and betrays - William Watson "Lux Perdita"
An untried wanderer on the wing - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Where lonely thoughts listen and wander - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Wandering through life's meadows - John Hall Wheelock "Long Ago"
Where the sea-winds only wander - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
Free to wander, and free to bide - A.D.T. Whitney "Along, Long, Long"
A lost star I wander down your sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"
Wanderer moon smiling - William Carlos Williams "Summer Song"
Under the lindens we wandered - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"
Or but a wandering Voice - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
Wandered naked among trysted swords - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Amid the wandering, starry mirth- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
A museum of natural wandering - Matthew Zapruder "What I Need"
The cough of a wandering bull - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 6" transl. by Katherine Silver
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