Potential Titles: Warm

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The secrets of a wine which warms the heart - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Far other wishes warm my heart - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Warm with some forgotten consolation - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Wish for breath to warm our palms - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Bent towards the warmth of the scorching sun - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجار"

Harboring warmth in the thick of a scary world - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

And the warm glow grew deeper - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"

Dare exhale the warm infinite incense - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Warm, sugar sweet, and wormwood bitter - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"

Where 'zero' stands for the treason of warmth - Mary Jo Bang "Renunciation of Dream and Such"

Flannel and furs to keep yourself warm - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Robin's Song"

Our myriads swarm in the southlands warm - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

A warm chat with friends gone sour - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"

red as a ripe warm plum - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

The world falling asleep in a warm light - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

With Sighs to warm my Soul - Aphra Behn "In Imitation of Horace"

A warm caress leading me by the hand - Esther Belin "Personal Poem"

The warm air webbed with dew - Edmund Blunden "Forefathers"

Dreams of warm permanence - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

The warm, assuring duty of prayer - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

The warm quarrel of emotions - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

The curled husks of yesterday's warmth - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, because you tell me to, I begin again"

Warmth within the mountain's breast - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"

Warms the cold heart of the moon - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In an Old Orchard"

The warmest days of our love - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"

Crimson current warm and true - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monsthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

The warm sunbeam on the frozen rill - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Warm in their memories of us - Chen Chen "First Light"

Warm water under silver covers - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Warmed by the sunshine of your eyes - Corrinne "Our Wreath of Rose Buds" [student at Cherokee Female Seminary]

Feed her with nectar, shelter her warm - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Young Dandelion"

whose warmest heart recoiled at war - E. E. Cummings "i sing of Olaf glad and big"

Waiting spring's warm and wooing breath - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Soon the last warm sun will set - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"

The heart of London beating warm - John Davidson "London"

Flow with the warm healing of anger - Kwame Dawes "Talk"

In its warm death the expression of the starving - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Learn to keep warm with breathing - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #3"

Warm as whiskey chased down with cold water - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Buried warmly under the quilts - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Played catch with a warm tomato - Denise Duhamel "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"

Came warm and burning to your dream - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Culling warm daisies 'neath the sloping sun - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Warm on the table of my truce with the world - Martin Espada "After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese"

Quickened and fired by the warmth of our glow - Jessie Fauset "Touche" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

By the casual pleasures of warmth - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"

All the possibilities of a warm night - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Has long frozen Hope's warm springs - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

The fires of hell rage fierce and warm - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Warmer than her tears - Theodosia Garrison "A Ballad of Halloween"

Warm as snared sunlight - Mona Gould "Sherry"

The dream and dreamer warmed in fusion - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain - Thom Gunn "Lament"

In the nurturing warmth of your applause - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

Who sits before a shadowed hearth and warms to a spectral fire - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Inscription" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

With her warm flower heart - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A City Guest"

Gather the warm affections round - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

The warmth that carried me there - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Beyond the power of light to warm - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

White and milk-warm sphinx - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"

The apple of copper will warm his heart - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

All the jewels warm as wine - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"

Your kisses turbulent, unspent to warm me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Ginger warm, garlic sharp, coriander mellow - Zilka Joseph "Kaulee Haddi"

Offer you warm robes if you arrive in winter - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]

As warm water shatters at birth - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

A beaker full of the warm South - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

When the warm hearth throws its bright glow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"

Let your heart be warm and tender - "Kind to Everything" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Warm inside the white dusk of morning - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

& anger almost kept them warm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

The warm, wet breath of apples - Ted Kooser "Applesauce"

The warm dust of those colors - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"

Floats from some warmer place - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

The leaf-red fire warmed no one's hands - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Warm daisy chains, holy dandelions - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

This room made warm by our own resources - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

That my love can dawn in warmth again, unafraid - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"

That swims in the warm wake of the tumult - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

The tender scarf of warm mercies - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

Gleamed with the warm light of an absent star - Philip Levine "Breath"

Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"

Your fingers warm after a life in the cold - P. H. Low "Ode"

Spice of the first warm wind - Dorothea Mackellar "Spring on the Plains"

Or warm brown of tree bark - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

Before the sun comes warm - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."

Between what warming seas and conquering skies - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"

Cling to the warm couch of wine - Arthur Milliken "Chopin"

Cling to our falsehoods of warmth - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Warm me with the flame of his breast - Grace Nichols "Robin Redbreast"

The warmth of the missing ocean - Nancy Nishihara "The Weight"

The warm dark of dreams - Joyce Carol Oates "The Dark"

Plunge from warm waters to cool air - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

a warm breeze in January - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"

At night, smoke warmed the stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Lived with eight sisters in a warm ocean - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

The strange tea still warm - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"

White blood appearing from warm air - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

Warmer and kinder than brass - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 18k"

Which life again shall animate and warm - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"

For the warmth of winter gold - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"

And warms the earth in a learned way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"

Warm Thanksgiving fires are burning - Miriam Clark Potter "Thanksgiving Kitchen Song"

Warm with memories of sounds - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Interlude"

Warm liquid of a faith long dead - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"

Dream on the world's warm heart - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"

Faint warm fog unlifting - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"

The gestures of your warm wise hands - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Breathes warmth into the night - Arthur Rimbaud "Waifs and Strays" transl. not credited

Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

Warm instruments for the cold news of loss - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

Warm as loveliest star of night - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Warm from the least wind - Christina Georgina Rossetti "The Ghost's Petition"

Till all the rooms of warmth fill with smoke - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

The peace of long warm rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"

As warm, we'll say, is the russet grey - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"

Still our feet trod the warm, even places - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

The warm scent buried like a promise - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

And basks in the warmth of these still-fragile stars - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

The trout in sun-warmed shallows - C. Fox Smith "Bullington"

trying to find a warmth to call home - Danez Smith "juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet"

The warm, white oblivion of sleep - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"

A warm stream in frozen lands - Muriel Stuart "The Tryst"

Sun warm on mulberry and hemp - Su Tung-p'o "[Soft grasses, a plain of sedge]" transl. by Burton Watson

To wake the hills and warm the trees - Howard V. Sutherland "December"

Where my fingers cramp with winter and warmth - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"

Through the warm starting of my hoarding tears - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Disappearing one warm night when I forget to look - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Alone and warming his five wits - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "When Cats Run Home"

The spellbound horses walking warm - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Whose wasted warmth but nurtures pain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

A warm still wind upon my face - Mark Van Doren "Possession"

Lying for warmth against my heart - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"

Warm winds opening radiance across grasses - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Balance-Peace Post-Station" transl. by David Hinton

Intoxicated and warm with our tedium - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

That first warm rain that melts the heart of earth - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"

Give the light and warmth to solar systems - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."

A thin sun warms nothing - Valerie Worth "Sparrows and Pigeons"

An exacting warmth - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

Interiors warm with the nightmare of guests - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"


Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"


Map pins on a dream-warm itinerary - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"


Found slaughters here ironically lukewarm - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


Their hot colors will re-warm your heart - Tu Fu "The Poet and the Flood" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


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