Potential Titles: Wound (Injury)

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For the past tense of 'to wind' see: Wind (verb)/Unwind. The sorting may be a bit wobbly because some usages could be interpreted in more than one way.


Some wounds cannot be hushed - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"

Laugh with wounded teeth - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

To swallow the impossible wound of itself - George Abraham "Unarcheology of 'Father'"

Blown slowly from the wounded grain - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Useless as wounded pride - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

Who want a wound to enter by - Walter Conrad Arensberg "To the Necrophile"

And free your wounded soul - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (3)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

grape-green and wounded - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

who of us shall slake the salt wound - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"

Where the wound lies I've never understood - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas

That hunts the wolf with the wounded hare - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"

Vague, terrible, wounded forms - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Their wounded hearts afresh would bleed - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

One heart the devil could wound - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

An open wound weeping smoke - Richard Blanco "Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala"

Changed to wounds by the desiring heart - Maxwell Bodenheim "Metaphysical Elizabeth"

Softest on sorrow's wound - William Lisle Bowles "Time"

Like a wound healed too soon - Sue Budin "Argyria"

Time delights in dealing wounds which he alone can heal - Clarence Frederick Buhler "The March of Life" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Bind the wounded heart that bleeds - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Burns like wine the open wound - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

Dyed with the red wounds of fear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"

Feeling thy heart's worst wound - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Dares to climb with wounded feet - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The wine that heals the summer's wounds - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

The red wound wailing in the air - Ken Chen "Fingernails"

The wound from which your question arises - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

The wound is within you and not - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)

Balm for every wounded heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XI"

Just the shadow of my wound - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"

Without wound or mark - Padraic Colum "Christ the Comrade"

Your crushed heart's wound still burns - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"

Wounded by apprehensions - Hart Crane "Possessions"

The heart is a continuously open wound - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

They wrap their wounds in pride - Countee Cullen "Black Magdalens"

Love opened a mortal wound - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)

The first wound was a clock - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Tastes blood from imaginary wounds - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"

The purple wounds of the peonies - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

My long wound, my bitter sorrow - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

A mandate of wounded vanity - Tarik Dobbs "Deconstructing My Birth"

Nights holding stars as puncture wounds - Cheryl Dumesnil "Some Days Are Skin as Tinfoil"

Does grief pick those who are wounded? - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

The wound forever seeking balm - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"

One of your talking wounded - James Fenton "In Paris with You"

From the wind's open wounds - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

And your anointed hands inflict the wound - "The Ghost of Chatham"

After the wound of us - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"

To hide your wounded heart - brian g. gilmore "at malcolm x street, lansing, michigan (for earl little)"

No sight may wound our worn-out eyes - Angelina Weld Grimké "Surrender"

And my wound will acquire the gift of sight - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

The wound inside me - Gulnisa Imin Gulkhan "First Night: At Six O'clock" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Licks its wounds that taste of iodine - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

The wound of chaos - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

Away from your wounded mountains - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Through the wound of my life - Omotara James "Pier 52"

The wound from a sigh - Alexander Jamieson "A Sigh and a Smile"

And wound the golden air - Lionel Johnson "Enthusiasts"

Refreshing to the wounded spirit's thirst - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

My face among the wounded coins - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Unhealed wounds and home fallen to ruins - Zilka Joseph "A Chirota for My Thoughts"

All wounds of Time - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

Does not heed the angry lightning's wound - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"

The wounds of Love's consuming flame - Joyce Kilmer "St. Laurence"

A crown, a wound, a consequence of birds - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Receiving the wound and the venom in one - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Unfurled in the wounded daylight - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Panorama"

Wounded pride first taught her how to hate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Broken in time's great wound - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Bowed to his wounded tomatoes - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

With stabbing wounds of bitter sound - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

The wounds that come with wanderings - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The world undresses its wounds - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

The duel of the wounded night - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)

My grief, my wounding and my woe - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

And wound me with remembrance - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VI"

Stop showing off wounds to strangers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

As perfume clings to wounded flowers - George Martin "Hallowe'en in Canada"

The wounds of worn passions she brings - William Moore "Dusk Song"

The chains that wounded spirits wear - Morna "Ianthe"

A lunar landscape of wounds - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

With the wounds of Tuesday - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"

Bade all sorrow's wounds be healed - Francis Neilson "In Blue and Purple Clad"

Wounds on the forehead of the Andes - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid

Below the wounded day - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A tale of wounded bones - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Echoes on the deeply wounded stones - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Wound me with ten knives in the heart - Pablo Neruda "Maternity" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Wounded by bullets of dew - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Wounded beneath the wind - Pablo Neruda "The Oceanics" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Footprints of the wounded puma - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid

And skin the feathers from that wound - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

The tyrannous anger of the wounding wind - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Wounding wind that burns as fire - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Until devotion carved a wound - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"

Born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Time is a wound that can't close - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Words of the unhealed wounds - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"

Who bled where no wounds were - Wilfred Owen "Strange Meeting"

Staunched his wounds where the black guns bellow - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"

In the surprise of woundedness - Carl Phillips "By Force"

The exit wounds memory leaves - Carl Phillips "Givingly"

Wounded an exile's heart - Po-Chu-i "Releasing a Migrant "Yen" (Wild Goose)" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Her trophies now are wounded hearts - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "Chivalry at a Discount"

Tearing the calluses of bark from our wounds - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Against a corridor of wounds - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"

And wash my wound in the snows - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"

Your country shows you its wound - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

To add but poison to a wound - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

May wound the water sailed - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

Natal wounds scarce healed - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"

The cleanse and shake a wounded hemisphere - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Wounded sore with thorns - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

Knows the wounds that quiver unconfessed - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"

inheriting wounds from bodies you make a home in - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

A wound in beauty's side - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)

From all our wondering, wounded world - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

As if coincidence alone explained such wounds - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

For that deep wound it gives - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"

Became a wound in my particles - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"

With wounded feet we cease from wandering - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

To speak the language of the wound - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

And cures the wound of wisdom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

The Hand which wounds can heal - E. Clementine Stedman "Lines: To the Author of the Requiem, 'I See Thee Still'"

To the wounded viols pleading - George Sterling "Music at Dusk"

Invades even my dreams and wounds me in sleep - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Wounded by a double pain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 148: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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"

Wounded by vehement cries - Sara Teasdale "New Year's Dawn-- Broadway"

Binding up wounds, but pouring in no balm - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

The wound smells of silence and its blaring - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Your long, wounded song - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"

And even the night is wounded - Louis Untermeyer "Waters of Babylon"

Taught my tongue to wound - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"

The exit wounds of every misfired word - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"

A wound made of fire opening in the sky - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

From the seven wounds bleeding - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"

The bleeding wounds of the pomegranate - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

How deepest wounds are given by praise - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"

Two wounds in my upper arm and in my heart - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"

When rolling years had soothed the wound - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)


A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan


Look on me with unwounding eyes - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"

The fissure of the lightning leaves it unwounded - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"


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