Potential Titles: Wish
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somethingdarkerWhether you wish to find or avoid them - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"
The wish to inhabit storms - Etel Adnan "Night"
You are a wish fulfilled - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"
Wishing for the same thing - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
Wish for breath to warm our palms - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Likely to transform my wish - Julia Alvarez "Direct Address"
Long wish for some far off sands - Lennox Amott "Drink"
Perfect fading wish of every shooting star - Atticus "Magic in Stars"
Wedding of wished and fulfillment - Mary Jo Bang "The Cracked Jar Called Can it Be Taught"
Becoming infinite abyss extended to wish - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"
yellow was wish - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
gaudy with cobalt wishing stones - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"
The unquiet wish to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Wish events otherwise entangled - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Fearless as humans wish to be - Rebecca G. Biber "Winter's Fool, April, Ann Arbor, 2014"
And unavailing wishes - Laurence Binyon "Youth"
Where my Sunflower wishes to go - William Blake "Ah, Sunflower"
Clamping down on each homesick wish - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"
Works adverse to my wish - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XV. The Lover and the Sculptor" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Wishing for a more telescopic vision - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
The wish was enough to point to the sky - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
Why should the wretched wish to live? - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Even Puss in Boots will wish that he were in your shoes - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
Mix our wishes in a tokening tear - John Clare "To an April Daisy"
The wish but sleeps - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who wish to conquer pain - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"
Stirred by the newborn wish to conquer - William Cory "Amavi"
Bend them to my wish - H.D. "Circe"
Wrote my wish upon a kite - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
In his landscape of wishes - Stephen Dunn "The Worrier"
Forgot my morning wishes - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"
Gives our wish for blue a whet - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"
Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
Made from your own silver-tipped wishes - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"
Half the look betrayed a wish - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
But I have none to wish returned - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Waking to wish existence timeless - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
The way an almost granted wish does - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
Where the stone wishes to blossom - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"
Not a wish was unsupplied - "Hours of Childhood"
a wilted bloom is a monstrous wish - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Throw my wishes into the well of the Infinite - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"
wish their tears were rungs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Wish the staring sunlight gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
The world made of wishes - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"
Still as a wish - Megan Levad "Foundling"
Blackboard we scrawled our wishes on - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
The well anchoring the water's wish - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"
Who have no wish for a sorrow lightened - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Coyotes wishing you well - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
As if wishing for a different outcome - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
The same struggle of wishes and losses - Wesley McNair "The Future"
The wind burns my wishes on the air - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"
In the sweltering east wind of your wishes - Marianne Moore "Is Your Town Ninevah?"
No reason to wish ourselves extinct - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"
Being reduced to a single wish - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"
I wish I could harvest his patience - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
By vain wishes bar my claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
Shaping itself to the wish of any object - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Under the shape of wishes - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
The dreams keep our wishes walking - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
Like a wish wasted - Carl Phillips "Ghost Choir"
If one wish begets a next one - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"
Cold, reflected light just wishing to hang on - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
A language I wish I had never learned - Paige Quinones "Viability Study"
Gone west with a new wish - Camille Rankine "Ways to Disappear"
Perfect as a wish forever unfulfilled - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Wishful in secret to forget - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The wishful dream of a fairy king - Lola Ridge "Incognito (To P.C.)"
Wished for a moment of laughter - Jade Riordan "We Others"
We wish to curate a garden of stars - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
Or wish me to those everlasting fires - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
The proud wish to command - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Work all that my wishing would - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
Box of wishes waiting for time to stop - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Wishes that deny being opened - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
A wish after it goes unfulfilled - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Wishes, wolves, and flower kings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Many wishes flaming together - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
The shallow soil of wishes - Kay Ryan "Failure 2"
Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Shooting stars not worth the wishing on - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
My wish in the golden weather - Clinton Scollard "Song"
All kinds of wishes let loose - Teresa J. Scollon "Goodbye to Dwight Lipke"
To wish and not jinx it - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
With wishes proud but vain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
A sky to throw wishes against - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"
A wish hurling across the sky - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Wish for socks of moss - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Moss"
like the wish for any promise - Asiya Wadud "number four"
My wish that failed of act - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
Wicked wants and wishes to explain - "The Whore"
On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"
Equal to their wishes and their pains - "The Whore"
I wish the wind may never cease - "The Wife of Usher's Well"
A wish achieved and half lost again - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
Wish to be silent in this air - C. Dale Young "Praise"
Wishing stars would fall as rain - Javier Zamora "Exilados"
At the bottom of a wishing well - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"
Wishlist of crossed out verbs - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
Navigation Links:
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The wish to inhabit storms - Etel Adnan "Night"
You are a wish fulfilled - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"
Wishing for the same thing - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
Wish for breath to warm our palms - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Likely to transform my wish - Julia Alvarez "Direct Address"
Long wish for some far off sands - Lennox Amott "Drink"
Perfect fading wish of every shooting star - Atticus "Magic in Stars"
Wedding of wished and fulfillment - Mary Jo Bang "The Cracked Jar Called Can it Be Taught"
Becoming infinite abyss extended to wish - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"
yellow was wish - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
gaudy with cobalt wishing stones - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"
The unquiet wish to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Wish events otherwise entangled - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Fearless as humans wish to be - Rebecca G. Biber "Winter's Fool, April, Ann Arbor, 2014"
And unavailing wishes - Laurence Binyon "Youth"
Where my Sunflower wishes to go - William Blake "Ah, Sunflower"
Clamping down on each homesick wish - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"
Works adverse to my wish - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XV. The Lover and the Sculptor" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Wishing for a more telescopic vision - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
The wish was enough to point to the sky - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
Why should the wretched wish to live? - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Even Puss in Boots will wish that he were in your shoes - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
Mix our wishes in a tokening tear - John Clare "To an April Daisy"
The wish but sleeps - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who wish to conquer pain - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"
Stirred by the newborn wish to conquer - William Cory "Amavi"
Bend them to my wish - H.D. "Circe"
Wrote my wish upon a kite - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
In his landscape of wishes - Stephen Dunn "The Worrier"
Forgot my morning wishes - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"
Gives our wish for blue a whet - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"
Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
Made from your own silver-tipped wishes - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"
Half the look betrayed a wish - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
But I have none to wish returned - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Waking to wish existence timeless - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
The way an almost granted wish does - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
Where the stone wishes to blossom - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"
Not a wish was unsupplied - "Hours of Childhood"
a wilted bloom is a monstrous wish - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Throw my wishes into the well of the Infinite - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"
wish their tears were rungs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Wish the staring sunlight gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
The world made of wishes - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"
Still as a wish - Megan Levad "Foundling"
Blackboard we scrawled our wishes on - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
The well anchoring the water's wish - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"
Who have no wish for a sorrow lightened - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Coyotes wishing you well - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
As if wishing for a different outcome - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
The same struggle of wishes and losses - Wesley McNair "The Future"
The wind burns my wishes on the air - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"
In the sweltering east wind of your wishes - Marianne Moore "Is Your Town Ninevah?"
No reason to wish ourselves extinct - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"
Being reduced to a single wish - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"
I wish I could harvest his patience - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
By vain wishes bar my claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
Shaping itself to the wish of any object - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Under the shape of wishes - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
The dreams keep our wishes walking - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
Like a wish wasted - Carl Phillips "Ghost Choir"
If one wish begets a next one - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"
Cold, reflected light just wishing to hang on - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
A language I wish I had never learned - Paige Quinones "Viability Study"
Gone west with a new wish - Camille Rankine "Ways to Disappear"
Perfect as a wish forever unfulfilled - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Wishful in secret to forget - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The wishful dream of a fairy king - Lola Ridge "Incognito (To P.C.)"
Wished for a moment of laughter - Jade Riordan "We Others"
We wish to curate a garden of stars - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
Or wish me to those everlasting fires - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
The proud wish to command - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Work all that my wishing would - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
Box of wishes waiting for time to stop - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Wishes that deny being opened - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
A wish after it goes unfulfilled - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Wishes, wolves, and flower kings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Many wishes flaming together - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
The shallow soil of wishes - Kay Ryan "Failure 2"
Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Shooting stars not worth the wishing on - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
My wish in the golden weather - Clinton Scollard "Song"
All kinds of wishes let loose - Teresa J. Scollon "Goodbye to Dwight Lipke"
To wish and not jinx it - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
With wishes proud but vain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
A sky to throw wishes against - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"
A wish hurling across the sky - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Wish for socks of moss - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Moss"
like the wish for any promise - Asiya Wadud "number four"
My wish that failed of act - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
Wicked wants and wishes to explain - "The Whore"
On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"
Equal to their wishes and their pains - "The Whore"
I wish the wind may never cease - "The Wife of Usher's Well"
A wish achieved and half lost again - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
Wish to be silent in this air - C. Dale Young "Praise"
Wishing stars would fall as rain - Javier Zamora "Exilados"
At the bottom of a wishing well - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"
Wishlist of crossed out verbs - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
Navigation Links:
Go to W word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
