Potential Titles: Soft
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somethingdarkerPrimordial mist revealed in spots of soft light - Linda Addison "Evolving"
So purely yonder in soft air - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
No shadow to soften his loneliness - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
To a softness that renames their tongues - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
The stars' soft eyes alone may see - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"
Opened the violet's soft blue eye - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
When the south wind plays soft music through the trees - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Deflected Dali's softening emissions - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Falls soft on the white - Willis Boyd Allen "By Night"
Soft pity's sorrowing look - "The Alter'd Lay"
Still and softly sleeping - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Rich, clear, and soft, and sweet by turns - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
You cannot build anything soft - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Soft on that copper palm - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"
And the soft chain of thought has bound me - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
The softest kiss in the wrong direction - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Soft friendships of pretty paint and kindnesses of mortar - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"
The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Softer breathe the gentle zephyrs - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"
The softness of a trillion purple skies - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Bruised tomatoes, nectarines so soft they're left for free - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
Answer my soft whistle with a scream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
Sweet to tread the soft green earth - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
Even over echo's soft retreat - Cora C. Bass "May"
All your stores of softening balm - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Slowness, softness inside the arduous & unfair - Zeina Hashem Beck "Time,"
Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
Evening's shadows softly intervene - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"
An owl's soft, pulsing calls - Terry Blackhawk "Along Waite Road"
The soft harp of snowfall - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
The soft comfort of flour between my fingers - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"
Softest on sorrow's wound - William Lisle Bowles "Time"
meadowsweet softened by drizzle - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Balm of soft oblivion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 11"
With soft and drunken laughter - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"
A soft impulse, a sudden dust - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
Making tea in the soft light of Saturday morning - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Left soft with room for goodness to take hold - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
Life's soft inner call to obey - Evelyn Gage Browne "Birds of Passage"
Silken mittens soft and quaint - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Her First Season"
Soft with promise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Birds soft singing through the shade - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"
Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"
Softly from their parting buds uncoil - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The soft chiming of the vesper bell - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Fixed it soft with cunning whim - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
Cradled in her soft voice - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"
The soft murmur of a thousand rills - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
Soft orange inside my steel - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"
An autumn predicting softness - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"
When soft September brings again - Arthur Hugh Clough "Written on a Bridge"
The soft places in the center of the heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Hovering in a soft eclipse - Susan Coolidge "My Birthday"
In the loose girdle of soft rain - Hart Crane "My Grandmother's Love Letters"
Soft as tread of visions - Nathalia Crane "Choice"
Among the stars, soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "Untitled"
The majesty soft darkness lent - R.P. Crenshaw, Jr. "Echo"
Could jewels be so soft - George Cronyn "Disillusion"
By soft gradations of ascent - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Of night's soft decline - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"
from steep hills by darkness softly brought - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Softer be they than slippered sleep - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Once more at night's soft noon - H.D. (active 1877) "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
Softly stepping from the slender Moon - Danske Dandridge "Silence"
In sleep's soft fetters bound - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"
While soft imagination lends her wings - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
In the copycat soft of me - Marissa Davis "Singularity"
Soft pathways for the praying bird - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"
Stealing soft enchantment from their eyes - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"
Soft skirts of flame - Leconte de Lisle "The Black Panther" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
The soft applause of sugar spilling - Diane DeCillis "Power of Suggestion"
Full many a soft and sunny hour - Delta "A Wild-Flower Garland: The Wall-Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Behind this soft eclipse - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVI: Apocalypse"
The daisy follows soft - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXIV"
Soft captivity of circling arms - Edward Dowden "Helena"
Soft whisperings of the wheat - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
Some soft darkenings of the evening - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Run into a softer wall - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"
Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"
Soft as music's dying fall - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
All your jagged syntaxes softened - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"
the white powder of internal softness and decay - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
Cut the crayon softness of the dusk - Nora May French "Along the Track"
Too soft his flesh to bear life's storms - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
Softened by frost - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"
The wind is a lullaby, soft and sweet - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Around the soft seeds of their flesh - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"
Soft and cold as ash - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
Medea's soft and deadly name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
And gives my doomed hands a soft task - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Stole all the softness aether pours - W.H.H. "The Thief" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
A soft surprise to strangers - Katherine Hale "Bush Road"
The murmurs of zephyrs soft and bland - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
With soft enchantments and divine control - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Secure soft slumber to his bones - Felicia Hemans "Epitaph on Mr W--, a Celebrated Mineralogist"
Would beam with softer light - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"
Dissolve in Love's soft flame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"
The softest carpet nature weaves - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
In every key from soft to shrill - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Sleep descends on a soft Storm of Light - David Hornibrook "Vespers"
Sing it softly, for the song is wild - Langston Hughes "Genius Child"
Where the earth was soft still from the waters of the flood - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Their passion and ire softening now - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
And catch hold of a soft pulse - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
With soft melting murmurs - John Imlah "Kathleen"
Soft, nostalgic brown - Malathi Michelle Ivengar "Sepia"
Hard and soft sugar playing a supporting role - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
October's orchestra plays softly - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"
Rarer than soft honey cells - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Among soft fires can drink - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
In filmy gossamer and soft brocade - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Sea Spell"
Lighting the entire soft lace of the air - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"
In that soft choiring of delight - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXVI"
Falling softly back with silver sound - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
The new soft fallen mask of snow - John Keats "Bright Star"
Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
The soft wind upon their summer thrones - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"
Soft incense hangs upon the boughs - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Soft embalmer of the still midnight - John Keats "To Sleep"
Sealed by the soft hand of sleep - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
Wrapt in a halo as soft, and as bright - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."
Changed with the soft heat of your dreams - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"
The soft strains of David's Lyre - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"
Names that soften at moon - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
The determined touch of softness - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
The earth's gold breath falling softly - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Spreads soft and silvery thin - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
With a motion soft and slow - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
With soft throats unaltered - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"
A glamour soft with gold - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The soft June days forever done - George Parsons Lathrop "The Child's Wish Granted"
Now verdigris smoulderings softly spread - D.H. Lawrence "Parliament Hill in the Evening"
Through still, soft air that cry is yet prolonged - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Shielding so soft a heart - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
To the owl she comes in soft and silent flight - Mary Soon Lee "Reaper" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]
That recalls the soft murmur of bees - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (to a Civil Question)"
Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The Scythian waste that bears no soft nor green - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"
The soft, high bed of Peace - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
The soft life of your footprints - Ada Limon "The Same Thing"
Whose soft dim light would rise to bless each summer - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A brief softening and then a flood - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
By soft mirage uplifted - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Too soft for honest wrath - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
The soft instructions of our dreams - Thomas Lynch "The Student"
Roses tinted by the moon's soft smile - Annie Macdonell "Reiselust" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
When suns are soft and breezes kind - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Vassal"
Their soft dyes had steeped my soul - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"
Faint footfalls and soft shadows - Edwin Markham "The Valley"
Softest harmonies of air and ocean - George Martin "Laleet"
A jewelled beam of soft enchantment - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
Is my ear whispering its own soft calls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 73: Libidella (Secret Dirge)" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Softly buckled round their toes - Furnley Maurice "Barter"
Soft as shadows in a pool - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"
Love's softly glowing spark - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Soft as winnowing plumes of sleep - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Around the tossing park and down the softened street - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Threw soft splendour on a fair familiar face - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
Venus' soft voice imparting its joy - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (13)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Wooed by the wind's soft word - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"
Beneath all its soft battles and sinews - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
The softly swirling undersong - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"
His tubes of soft quicksilver - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
The soft hue of memory, moss green, kerosene yellow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hugging the Jukebox"
Soft Architect of silvery gleams - "The Ocean Wanderer"
That nothing exists fierce or soft - Mary Oliver "If the philosopher is right"
Under layers of leaves and soft dirt - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Kissing the Old World, softly to sleep - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
The moon spreads her soft silver nets - Kostes Palamas "The Fairy" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Whose perfect concord meets in the soft light - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A soft deer browsing the woods - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"
The softest acrylic sunny day - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
Soft as twilight waters - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Soft dew-drop of my heart's one flower - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Soft cradled by the tide - Theodore H. Rand "The Sea Undine"
Soft bird voices, musicking the breeze - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Saadi and the Rose"
With soft notes of the arisen lilies - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
Softly triumphant folding immensities of light - Lola Ridge "Mother"
Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Pray this world has softened you - Joseph Rios "Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tios"
Why the tangled roses breathe so softly to the moon - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
When purest gold fell softly to the snow - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"
Soft splendors in the west - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Soft melody, outpoured in June - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"
The bite of a softened cardamom pod - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
The soft air winnowing the thistledown - Vita Sackville-West "From a Diary, January 1918"
And make soft captives of my wrists - Vita Sackville-West "Mad"
To cry only softly at the ashes of my mysteries - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"
Who could refuse this softness? - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #24"
Spilling blue words like soft rain - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
A long story carried out to a soft conclusion - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"
A soft haze of delicate hyacinth - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"
As soft as the feet of sleep - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"
And their jubilee-shout shall be softened - Sir Walter Scott "Song"
All soft procedure and steel will - M. Bartley Seigel "We'll Learn to Kindle a Slight Blue Flame"
To dream in soft ethereal realms of bliss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
As if we could shape softness - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
That no God's heart is softened by our cries - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
Committed their soft bodies to the salt - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
the serenity of the soft and the still - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]
Softly dreaming, waking never - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Morning sunlight's soft command - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Too Late"
The pine-tree's soft melody - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"
This surging bosom soft with dreams - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Soft with sweet cadence - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
With soft spun verses and tears unshed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Soft enough to couch each rumbling dream - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"
No sound but a soft mathematics in the branches - Brian Teare "Californian [You want to go back]"
Softest dews of peace in showers - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
A kindness of soft needles - TC Tolbert "What I really want to know is how rough, Melissa,"
The familiar because it feels soft and always - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Shall softer than the dawn come stealing - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
The soft wine turned to bloom - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"
Troubling the still soft swarms of fallen stars - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Softly fall the shadows gray - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
Curled its soft lure into bone - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
With a softer blue the sky pavilions earth - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
So soft that even fairies will not hear - G.B. Warren "Paolo's Virginia"
Soft syllables of that forgotten speech - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "At Dawn"
Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Straining to win that soft sequestered note - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
On softest feathers of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Soft shapes of stealth - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
When sunlight stole through the soft hours - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Down from her beaten path she softly slips - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Soften the declining day - Helen Maria Williams "Sonnet, To Twilight"
This softly tendered now - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"
Soft as wind it passes - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Soft as August's livid purple figs - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Reddest, softest island of my last planet, last aureola - Dean Young "Colophon"
Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"
Soft-sailing waters where fears no longer shake - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"
Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Softly-severed tangle - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
As the soft-shod hours passed - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"
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So purely yonder in soft air - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
No shadow to soften his loneliness - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
To a softness that renames their tongues - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
The stars' soft eyes alone may see - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"
Opened the violet's soft blue eye - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
When the south wind plays soft music through the trees - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Deflected Dali's softening emissions - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Falls soft on the white - Willis Boyd Allen "By Night"
Soft pity's sorrowing look - "The Alter'd Lay"
Still and softly sleeping - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Rich, clear, and soft, and sweet by turns - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
You cannot build anything soft - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Soft on that copper palm - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"
And the soft chain of thought has bound me - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
The softest kiss in the wrong direction - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Soft friendships of pretty paint and kindnesses of mortar - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"
The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Softer breathe the gentle zephyrs - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"
The softness of a trillion purple skies - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Bruised tomatoes, nectarines so soft they're left for free - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
Answer my soft whistle with a scream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
Sweet to tread the soft green earth - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
Even over echo's soft retreat - Cora C. Bass "May"
All your stores of softening balm - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Slowness, softness inside the arduous & unfair - Zeina Hashem Beck "Time,"
Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
Evening's shadows softly intervene - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"
An owl's soft, pulsing calls - Terry Blackhawk "Along Waite Road"
The soft harp of snowfall - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
The soft comfort of flour between my fingers - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"
Softest on sorrow's wound - William Lisle Bowles "Time"
meadowsweet softened by drizzle - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Balm of soft oblivion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 11"
With soft and drunken laughter - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"
A soft impulse, a sudden dust - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
Making tea in the soft light of Saturday morning - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Left soft with room for goodness to take hold - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
Life's soft inner call to obey - Evelyn Gage Browne "Birds of Passage"
Silken mittens soft and quaint - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Her First Season"
Soft with promise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Birds soft singing through the shade - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"
Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"
Softly from their parting buds uncoil - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The soft chiming of the vesper bell - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Fixed it soft with cunning whim - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
Cradled in her soft voice - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"
The soft murmur of a thousand rills - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
Soft orange inside my steel - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"
An autumn predicting softness - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"
When soft September brings again - Arthur Hugh Clough "Written on a Bridge"
The soft places in the center of the heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Hovering in a soft eclipse - Susan Coolidge "My Birthday"
In the loose girdle of soft rain - Hart Crane "My Grandmother's Love Letters"
Soft as tread of visions - Nathalia Crane "Choice"
Among the stars, soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "Untitled"
The majesty soft darkness lent - R.P. Crenshaw, Jr. "Echo"
Could jewels be so soft - George Cronyn "Disillusion"
By soft gradations of ascent - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Of night's soft decline - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"
from steep hills by darkness softly brought - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Softer be they than slippered sleep - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Once more at night's soft noon - H.D. (active 1877) "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
Softly stepping from the slender Moon - Danske Dandridge "Silence"
In sleep's soft fetters bound - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"
While soft imagination lends her wings - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
In the copycat soft of me - Marissa Davis "Singularity"
Soft pathways for the praying bird - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"
Stealing soft enchantment from their eyes - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"
Soft skirts of flame - Leconte de Lisle "The Black Panther" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
The soft applause of sugar spilling - Diane DeCillis "Power of Suggestion"
Full many a soft and sunny hour - Delta "A Wild-Flower Garland: The Wall-Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Behind this soft eclipse - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVI: Apocalypse"
The daisy follows soft - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXIV"
Soft captivity of circling arms - Edward Dowden "Helena"
Soft whisperings of the wheat - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
Some soft darkenings of the evening - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Run into a softer wall - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"
Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"
Soft as music's dying fall - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
All your jagged syntaxes softened - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"
the white powder of internal softness and decay - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
Cut the crayon softness of the dusk - Nora May French "Along the Track"
Too soft his flesh to bear life's storms - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
Softened by frost - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"
The wind is a lullaby, soft and sweet - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Around the soft seeds of their flesh - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"
Soft and cold as ash - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
Medea's soft and deadly name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
And gives my doomed hands a soft task - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Stole all the softness aether pours - W.H.H. "The Thief" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
A soft surprise to strangers - Katherine Hale "Bush Road"
The murmurs of zephyrs soft and bland - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
With soft enchantments and divine control - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Secure soft slumber to his bones - Felicia Hemans "Epitaph on Mr W--, a Celebrated Mineralogist"
Would beam with softer light - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"
Dissolve in Love's soft flame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"
The softest carpet nature weaves - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
In every key from soft to shrill - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Sleep descends on a soft Storm of Light - David Hornibrook "Vespers"
Sing it softly, for the song is wild - Langston Hughes "Genius Child"
Where the earth was soft still from the waters of the flood - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Their passion and ire softening now - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
And catch hold of a soft pulse - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
With soft melting murmurs - John Imlah "Kathleen"
Soft, nostalgic brown - Malathi Michelle Ivengar "Sepia"
Hard and soft sugar playing a supporting role - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
October's orchestra plays softly - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"
Rarer than soft honey cells - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Among soft fires can drink - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
In filmy gossamer and soft brocade - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Sea Spell"
Lighting the entire soft lace of the air - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"
In that soft choiring of delight - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXVI"
Falling softly back with silver sound - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
The new soft fallen mask of snow - John Keats "Bright Star"
Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
The soft wind upon their summer thrones - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"
Soft incense hangs upon the boughs - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Soft embalmer of the still midnight - John Keats "To Sleep"
Sealed by the soft hand of sleep - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
Wrapt in a halo as soft, and as bright - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."
Changed with the soft heat of your dreams - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"
The soft strains of David's Lyre - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"
Names that soften at moon - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
The determined touch of softness - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
The earth's gold breath falling softly - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Spreads soft and silvery thin - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
With a motion soft and slow - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
With soft throats unaltered - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"
A glamour soft with gold - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The soft June days forever done - George Parsons Lathrop "The Child's Wish Granted"
Now verdigris smoulderings softly spread - D.H. Lawrence "Parliament Hill in the Evening"
Through still, soft air that cry is yet prolonged - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Shielding so soft a heart - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
To the owl she comes in soft and silent flight - Mary Soon Lee "Reaper" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]
That recalls the soft murmur of bees - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (to a Civil Question)"
Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The Scythian waste that bears no soft nor green - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"
The soft, high bed of Peace - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
The soft life of your footprints - Ada Limon "The Same Thing"
Whose soft dim light would rise to bless each summer - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A brief softening and then a flood - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
By soft mirage uplifted - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Too soft for honest wrath - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
The soft instructions of our dreams - Thomas Lynch "The Student"
Roses tinted by the moon's soft smile - Annie Macdonell "Reiselust" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
When suns are soft and breezes kind - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Vassal"
Their soft dyes had steeped my soul - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"
Faint footfalls and soft shadows - Edwin Markham "The Valley"
Softest harmonies of air and ocean - George Martin "Laleet"
A jewelled beam of soft enchantment - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
Is my ear whispering its own soft calls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 73: Libidella (Secret Dirge)" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Softly buckled round their toes - Furnley Maurice "Barter"
Soft as shadows in a pool - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"
Love's softly glowing spark - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Soft as winnowing plumes of sleep - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Around the tossing park and down the softened street - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Threw soft splendour on a fair familiar face - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
Venus' soft voice imparting its joy - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (13)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Wooed by the wind's soft word - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"
Beneath all its soft battles and sinews - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
The softly swirling undersong - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"
His tubes of soft quicksilver - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
The soft hue of memory, moss green, kerosene yellow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hugging the Jukebox"
Soft Architect of silvery gleams - "The Ocean Wanderer"
That nothing exists fierce or soft - Mary Oliver "If the philosopher is right"
Under layers of leaves and soft dirt - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Kissing the Old World, softly to sleep - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
The moon spreads her soft silver nets - Kostes Palamas "The Fairy" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Whose perfect concord meets in the soft light - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A soft deer browsing the woods - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"
The softest acrylic sunny day - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
Soft as twilight waters - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Soft dew-drop of my heart's one flower - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Soft cradled by the tide - Theodore H. Rand "The Sea Undine"
Soft bird voices, musicking the breeze - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Saadi and the Rose"
With soft notes of the arisen lilies - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
Softly triumphant folding immensities of light - Lola Ridge "Mother"
Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Pray this world has softened you - Joseph Rios "Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tios"
Why the tangled roses breathe so softly to the moon - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
When purest gold fell softly to the snow - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"
Soft splendors in the west - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Soft melody, outpoured in June - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"
The bite of a softened cardamom pod - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
The soft air winnowing the thistledown - Vita Sackville-West "From a Diary, January 1918"
And make soft captives of my wrists - Vita Sackville-West "Mad"
To cry only softly at the ashes of my mysteries - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"
Who could refuse this softness? - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #24"
Spilling blue words like soft rain - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
A long story carried out to a soft conclusion - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"
A soft haze of delicate hyacinth - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"
As soft as the feet of sleep - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"
And their jubilee-shout shall be softened - Sir Walter Scott "Song"
All soft procedure and steel will - M. Bartley Seigel "We'll Learn to Kindle a Slight Blue Flame"
To dream in soft ethereal realms of bliss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
As if we could shape softness - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
That no God's heart is softened by our cries - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
Committed their soft bodies to the salt - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
the serenity of the soft and the still - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]
Softly dreaming, waking never - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Morning sunlight's soft command - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Too Late"
The pine-tree's soft melody - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"
This surging bosom soft with dreams - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Soft with sweet cadence - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
With soft spun verses and tears unshed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Soft enough to couch each rumbling dream - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"
No sound but a soft mathematics in the branches - Brian Teare "Californian [You want to go back]"
Softest dews of peace in showers - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
A kindness of soft needles - TC Tolbert "What I really want to know is how rough, Melissa,"
The familiar because it feels soft and always - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Shall softer than the dawn come stealing - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
The soft wine turned to bloom - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"
Troubling the still soft swarms of fallen stars - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Softly fall the shadows gray - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
Curled its soft lure into bone - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
With a softer blue the sky pavilions earth - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
So soft that even fairies will not hear - G.B. Warren "Paolo's Virginia"
Soft syllables of that forgotten speech - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "At Dawn"
Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Straining to win that soft sequestered note - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
On softest feathers of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Soft shapes of stealth - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
When sunlight stole through the soft hours - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Down from her beaten path she softly slips - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Soften the declining day - Helen Maria Williams "Sonnet, To Twilight"
This softly tendered now - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"
Soft as wind it passes - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Soft as August's livid purple figs - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Reddest, softest island of my last planet, last aureola - Dean Young "Colophon"
Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"
Soft-sailing waters where fears no longer shake - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"
Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Softly-severed tangle - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
As the soft-shod hours passed - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"
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