Potential Titles: Soul

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My soul and being own'd the magic of the spell - W.E.A. "The Buried Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Opens a hole into a soul's dereliction - Chris Abani "Flay"

And snatched each soul back to flood - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

He cut the soul out of the shark - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"

The quick explosions in his soul - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

Now I shall store my soul - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"

Innocent souls turned carrion birds - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Looked upon the compass of his soul - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

Singing to thankful souls the song of coming bread - Thomas Aird "An Evening Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXVII, May 1851, v.LXIX]

Ambition grasps the empire of the soul - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Pack your soul with clouds - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

The soul half eaten out with solitude - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

The circlet woven of his soul's final art - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

I filed suit for your soul today - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

The shackles binding your souls do not exist for justice's sake - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

Enter like a fire into my soul - Turghun Almas "Remembering" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Can deceive my soul with daisies - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"

Bad weathers of the soul - Julia Alvarez "Fights"

The seed we call our soul - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

Into the deeper cistern of his soul - Julia Alvarez "Regreso"

Through market lanes and stone soul - T.J. Anderson III "Devonte Travels the Sorry Route"

To throw a solace on his soul - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"

Allowed my soul to soar to mysteries high or deep - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]

Doth weigh upon my riddling soul - Louis K. Anspacher "The Vocal Memnon to the Sphynx" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]

A soul crawling out of the black dirt - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Meeker souls in tight constellations - Simon Armitage "Gravity"

Conversed with a stripped soul - Charles Ashleigh "A Miracle"

The atoms in your souls forget - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Can be a poison to our souls - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Burst from the seams of their souls - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

In the grassy fields of our soul - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Patching his soul with all of her pieces - Atticus "Magic in Darkness"

The calligraphy of her soul - Atticus "Magic in Her"

Sweet bandit of my soul - Atticus "Magic in Love"

Has left no soul untouched - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "I Felt Like It" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

my soul is the oasis inside his eyes - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Call the men of sense and soul - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

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

This shattered soul is healing - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (3)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Neglected my sorrowful soul - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

What black iniquity sits on my soul - Leonard Bacon "Six Long Hours in Los Angeles"

Deep in the unfathomed soul - Charles W. Baird "Spirit-Voices" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

But heart and soul shall be wanting - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"

To melt his troubled soul away - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Summons from the soul's abyss - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

Fill his anxious soul with nerve-destroying fright - John Kendrick Bangs "The Curse of Wealth"

What holds the morrow for the soul that's satisfied? - John Kendrick Bangs "Satisfaction on Reading 'Not One Dissatisfied,' by Walt Whitman"

By every tie that binds the soul endeared - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

A double heart and a promiscuous soul - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"

In the fourth dimension of the soul - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

Our soul wings have been bound - Ardelia Maria Barton "All Life Hath Soul"

Its soul goes forth in anthems - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"

The desolate tracks of the soul - Cora C. Bass "Do Not Say That the World Is Cold"

Have emptied my soul of thought - Charlotte F. Bates "Contrasted Moods" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]

Everything there would address our souls - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

My soul's awakening hymn - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited

Sang the soul of wine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

The soul of some old poet haunts the drains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Has failed to purge the impure substance from his soul - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

My soul stands at the door - Richard Baxter "The Valediction"

And freedom fires the soul - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Repair the weary soul's decay - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

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

Until they kissed their souls away - Clive Bell "December"

Strong friend of souls - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

Charring my soul's most stubborn plank - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Have taken gold for your soul's treasury - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

The secret form of the soul is there in its terror - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Her soul was steel and her eyes were bleak - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Damned souls had never much to tell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"

Trampling my soul with hammers - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

That was sung to the soul of the madman, Blake - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

To make the souls of men surrender - Park Benjamin "An Epistle to Fanny" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]

To speak the music in my soul - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Quatrains 1" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Sharp enough to cut bone & soul - Joshua Bennett "Invocation"

To draw my soul's elastic very fine - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

The souls of trees are silent - Paul Bernstein "Footfall"

A contemplative array in the soul - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"

Something that's unquarried yet in the deep soul - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: I. The Victories"

Mysterious cement of the soul - Robert Blair "The Grave"

A black overcoat for the soul - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"

Into the conspiring fires of souls - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

The scrutiny of mind, and heart, and soul - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

The slanting, cambric curtain of his soul - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Escaping nightly from their souls - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

A decorative speed of thought and soul - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

Shut the doorways of their souls - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

People fling their powdered souls at you - Maxwell Bodenheim "To --" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Men who unrolled little souls on plates - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

To lift the oval of my soul - Maxwell Bodenheim "While Hearing a Little Song (Solveigs Lied)"

God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"

Ripped his skin right to the soul - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 3: Sufferation"

The long winter descending on your soul - William Brewer "Oxy 40"

The souls of dead men yet to be - Nellie Rathbone Bright "To One Who Might Have Been My Friend"

How can I rouse my sinking soul - Anne Bronte "Despondency"

Where heart and soul may rest - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"

My soul can drink no peace - Anne Bronte "The Student's Serenade"

Omens will shake his soul - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"

For fate admits my soul's decree - Charlotte Bronte "The Wife's Will"

That pure bread which cheers the soul - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"

The soul that's bound by memory's spell - N.C. Brooks, A.M. "The Waters of Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]

Will the soul of a Little Black Dog despair? - C. Hilton Brown "Hamish: a Scottish Terrier" [To Your Dog and to My Dog. PG. 1916]

The shadow of other men's souls passing over him - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"

Time was a poor keeper of souls - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"

Flourish souls with lemon drop hope - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

In a sacrament of souls - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"

Be an Idea to all souls - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Into soul from sense - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The tears of my clean soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Love me with thy thinking soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Man's Requirements"

Of his own soul afraid - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Infinite upon his finite soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Before that dread apocalypse of soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

Lamentations from lost souls - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

Each sound is a Soul - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"

The fragile soul of rapture - Gerald Bullett "Ashes"

Your gentle soul a well of beauty - Gerald Bullett "Rest"

Love fits the soul with wings - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIII. Celestial and Earthly Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Read you the writing of his soul - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

The living soul of ancient might - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

An ocean that is both our souls - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"

In one mingled soul reside - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Souls masked and muffled - Tommaso Campanella "XIII. The World's a Stage" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Lyre of my soul, awake - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

When soul of fire was ours - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

My soul is a great plain made desolate - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

The shadowy princedom of the soul - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Possessed the soul of Keats for song - Bliss Carman "Wayfaring"

In dread solitude of soul amid the faithless - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"

Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Through the dark chambers of his soul - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

To turn the soul-shaking planet - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"

Wear this falsehood in his soul - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"

Surely hope has not abandoned our souls - Ana Castillo "These Times"

Knowing his soul was fled - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)

Thought to fill my soul with grief - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

The brambles and the thorns that grow into my soul - Miguel de Cervantes "Galatea Book I" transl. by H. Oelsner & A.B. Welford

Land where my soul was nourished - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

May other reckless souls be consumed - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"

Vexed with the ache of uncompanioned souls - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XIV"

Your otherworldliness preserved in soul - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Washed his soul in the west wind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

A sea of tears and every soul a wave - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Forgot the shadow on his soul - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"

Nor winged spells incite the soul again - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

Stab our souls with seeds of sworded fire - W.R. Childe "Les Hallucines"

Too rich for one soul to swallow - May Chong "Catering"

Let us keep our souls in silence - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

My startled soul to charm - John Clare "Song"

Whose living souls no kindred own - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Play no tricks upon thy soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Receive its echo from the soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

My soul secure in place - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The great floods of the soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Bursts to fury in my soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene IX"

The woman with two souls and one body - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

Who gives her soul an empty room - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"

Bury my soul in a scrapbook - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Some souls so fearful to offend - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

It's just the condition of my soul - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)

The love of soul yields not to change of state - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

And only souls with wings - Susan Coolidge "Prelude"

Binds soul and dust - Benjamin Copeland "Remember!"

Alike for sod and soul - Benjamin Copeland "The Reward"

That was sweet to my soul - Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. "My Song"

The strife of armoured souls - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

The souls of all the ages - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"

My soul, to this darkness laid bare - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]

Whose soul a sword was- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"

When the soul is labouring in despair - George Crabbe "The Library"

Assessments of the soul - Hart Crane "Praise for an Urn"

The souls of all the flowers - Nathalia Crane "The History of Honey"

Breaks the sceptic chain that bound my soul - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]

the breaking of your soul upon my lips - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"

down the singing reaches of my soul - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

Who live in furnished souls - E. E. Cummings "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"

whose hand my folded soul shall know - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

No soul had he for wanton strains - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

My soul escape your snares - Olive Custance "The Kingdom of Heaven"

The silent dancing of my soul - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"

Play traitor to my soul - H.D. "At Ithaca"

When the soul's wells are high with crystal waters - Jane R. Dana "Contemplation" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

On the blackboard of their souls - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

All the graffiti eclipsing our souls - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

Of Saxon eyes and barbarous soul - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

Taking out a next mortgage on my soul - Kwame Dawes "Alado Seanadra"

My soul is crying out the deep confusion - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

So frail that only souls may tread - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Each vaulted soul and spiral thought - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

My soul had charged with sorcery - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Cleanse my soul and make it fair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

My soul the dread assault sustain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Body and soul do I abandon here - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Sweet Lady, fair and gentle without peer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Bathe with green fire the sinking soul - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"

Our tethered souls could never part - Geoffrey Dearmer "The French Mother to Her Unborn Child"

A gracious cloak to hide my soul's defeat - Clarissa Scott Delany "Interim" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Bringing his soul's keys - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"

The robin in every human soul - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

Scares muslin souls away - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXIV"

A spur upon the soul - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXVI"

The soul with strict economy - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life II: Superiority to Fate"

The Soul should stand in Awe - Emily Dickinson "The Soul unto itself (683)"

My body is a place-holder for my wandering soul - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]

The vale in which souls can drown - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"

Numberless infinities of souls - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"

Where my soul dwells - John Donne "Elegy V: His Picture"

Northward moved his chainless soul - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Until the imprisoned soul forgets - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Whose sight is sunshine to my soul - Edward Dowden "A Dream"

From which the soul swerves never - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

When the soul stood vindicated - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Walk with naked souls in Paradise - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

With the soul's high invention - Edward Dowden "Michelangelesque"

The sun of Shakespeare's soul - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"

To command the secrets of the soul - John William Draper "Thomas de Quincey"

Would that my soul were blind - John Drinkwater "The Old Warrior"

Fleet limbs that chronicle a fleeter soul - John Drinkwater "To My Son (Aged Sixteen)"

Our souls were near allied - John Dryden "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"

As equal were their Souls - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Even if souls are stars - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"

Until my soul is lost - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"

With more than dream the soul is torn - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Gazing beyond the ken of lesser souls - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

As convincing as our souls - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

The final citadel of my soul - Helen Parry Eden "A Parley with Grief"

Its mysteries to my soul reveal - Charlotte Elliott "Sunday Morning"

By a sad presage with affects my soul - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

If resentment o'er your soul usurp an empire - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Boundless pride, that fever of the soul - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Domestic cares have harrowed up my soul - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

From my soul your benefits should never be effaced - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

If this elate your soul with hope - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Reverse of fortune his presumptuous soul foresaw not - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Whose soul is warped by interest - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Fired with resentment her indignant soul - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Such an apprehension never entered my soul - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

With presaging soul to anticipate evils to come - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

What dreadful perturbation of the soul - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

With presaging soul in secrecy I entered - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Full oft misapprehension clouds the soul - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The free dictates of my soul will speak - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

One vision still oppressed her soul - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]

Purge the soul with their infinity - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Stars in Alabama"

by dawn I'd sneak in beside your soul - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

The soul has its rages - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Look among the shadows in my soul - Beulah Field "To Congdon"

With the fetters that bind the soul - George Blackstone Field "The Breed"

Not a soul would dare to sleep - J.T. Fields "The Captain's Daughter" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

The pilgrimage of grey souls passing - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"

My soul is backwards blown - John Gould Fletcher "Grass"

In the humid gardens of my soul - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Expressed my soul in unbroken rhythm - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

In the soul's sublimest mode - Silas Xavier Floyd "The Language of the Soul"

From the quarry of souls - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

Building the altars of their souls - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"

Sink into my soul's eclipse - "Frangipanni"

We have bartered our souls to the guns - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

Found my soul an untried instrument - Nora May French "After-Knowledge"

Through what abysses would my soul be tossed - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"

The secret issues of the soul - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]

The soul obeys our gravity - Tess Gallagher "Black Valentine"

Who have sold their soul's integrity - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

It is the guilty soul that speaks - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

With soul adverse to the position - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

My soul's adorning grace - Paul Gerhardt "Wie soll ich Dich epfangen" transl. by James W. Alexander

Always do seek our soul's decay - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

Because misery is all their souls remember - Nikita Gill "Hekate: I Shuddered"

Spend years painting your soul - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"

The high leading of her soul - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping"

Summon up some souls - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"

Their fingers to the soul - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"

To the soul of their bones - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"

While her soul goes out to the fray - "Glorious!" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]

That our souls not be distracted - Louise Gluck "Parable"

Fifty unspeakable ones had borne his soul - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

The stout granite of my soul - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"

Closed the windows of my soul - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul - Oliver Goldsmith "The Deserted Village"

Hunting the souls of the damned through the air - Robert Graves "The Sibyl"

The deepest fountains of my soul - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

Even our own souls were silent - Linda Gregerson "At the Window"

It takes a stalwart soul to find the light - John Grey "Skywatching"

One last stand in my soul - Kimberly Grey "Conjugated"

Hush the raging tumult of my soul - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Leaves a scratch upon the soul - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"

Every soul that furls its pinions - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Soul's unrest and spirit's scar - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Freshening the murky hollows of the soul - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Sometimes I shall play with a soul never born - Katherine Hale "A Fabulous Day"

I who cut patterns, as every soul must do - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"

A soul defiant with beauty - Nathalie Handal "The City Is Mine, Jay-Z"

Night at the gates where a soul would go - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

And dark as the bark of our open souls - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

To waste the soul on blood-red lips - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XI"

The speech of my forgotten soul - F.W. Harvey "Out of the City"

Thunder hidden in the innermost parts of your soul - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Rainy Season Love Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

With fell ambition fired thy favourite's soul - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

Souls come whispering from its ancient lips - Ben Hecht "Three Flesh-tints: The Incense Burner" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]

Thy kindling soul return - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

And breathe the soul of rapture - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

The shatter'd temple of the soul - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Can pierce the mazes of the soul - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

That high soul's ascendant star - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Traced in sunbeams on the soul - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

A wandering soul betrays - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

Enters a soul and finds a lodging there - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Misunderstanding"

In our soul's course o'er trackless lands - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Prayer"

A god for some fair soul to reverence - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"

Tend my soul's wild garden - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "To-Morrow"

Souls have such restless wings - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"

Who pours out his soul through the bagpipes - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"

To pawn his soul the sinner goes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Strengthen the hope within my soul - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

To wind your gossamer about my soul - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Spring Music"

As if you too had won the lottery of the soul - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]

The soul itself at season's end - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Each soul becomes a fount of sweet content - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"

To torment souls with wild revel - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

To the heaven of messy souls - Brenda Hillman "Split Tractate"

The way a saint pulls the best from a soul - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

But my soul no song confesses - Samuel Hoffenstein "To a Cabaret Singer" [The Broadway Anthology]

My soul baptized and set apart - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Other souls in other latitudes - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Guiltless at my soul's command - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

Will tear its soul in climbing through - Frank Horne "To a Persistent Phantom" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Half-remembered ghosts to haunt my soul - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]

To freeze my soul to stone and icy fire - Robert E. Howard "Voice of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

A dream like steel in my soul - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

The vast horizons of the soul - Langston Hughes "To You"

I have turned my soul to face the grave - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Each wearied soul beguiling to dreams - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

Lay ripening in my soul - Aldous Huxley "Poem"

Bade the soul drink deep of infinite things - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"

The lighthouse of many a shipwrecked soul - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"

Afford thy soul delight - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"

The soul in the body of the universe - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

My soul is quite a worn and frazzled rag - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Get one license to unloose my soul and shout - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

The miasmatic mist of the soul of the lonely - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

The boon of freedom to my weary soul - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

To wipe the dust from my soul - Richard Jackson "About this Poem"

Nothing to explain how the soul's music laments - Richard Jackson "Listening to Coltrane's Alabama as the Perseids Fade Out"

So quietly only a soul could hear - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

The cloudy zenith whence your soul descended - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

The soul held secret from all sight - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Ashes brimming with unnamed souls - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

The sun, the moon, the starlight of my soul - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

For devil's grain we barter souls - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"

The tendon bands that hold my soul - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

Just one true thing about the soul - Kate Knapp Johnson "The Meadow"

For my own soul overboiling - Kimberly Johnson "Farrow"

The secret of fair souls - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"

The steely soul of ice - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

In our souls the quenchless fire - Edward Smyth Jones "The Sylvan Cabin"

Empire warps the soul for show - Fady Joudah "Problems of Moon Language"

Where soul with soul lies prisoned - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXII"

That change of climate is not change of soul - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]

The magic that swells the thirst of your soul - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"

Tender soul with anguish torn - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Souls on crutches of bone - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

What the soul has made suffice - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

So my poisoned soul announced - Mary Karr "County Fair"

Sailed a soul like a lit arrow to inhabit me - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Soul marks on unswinging gates - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Drown the wakeful anguish of the soul - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

And seal the hushed casket of my soul - John Keats "To Sleep"

Their courage is in my soul - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

In the inmost chambers of my soul - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Sweet kindred of my exiled soul - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

Nightshade of the soul - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

Wakes with its joyous sound the soul of mirth - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"

Love was melting our two souls - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

If souls were crooked, swords were true - T.M. Kettle "The House of Lords: An Epitaph"

Nor the slipped hound of hate track that soul's secret ways - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"

My soul a thin-slotted door - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

The Shadow from a Soul on fire - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

The steel of their souls was hammered - Joyce Kilmer "Apology"

The lore of soul-compelling song - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

Daring and friendly souls - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Souls fly free - Kim Unsong "Photons & Souls"

Any soul tainted - Kim Unsong "Soul Tainted"

Affection with a soul made of bone - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

The windows of the soul - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

With all that bitter agony of soul - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Awakens kindred souls to kindred thought - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

As if their souls were bees - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"

Their numbers as great as your soul - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Soul and body constructing each other - Stephen Kuusisto "Night Seasons"

Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]

If my soul have no sweet song - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"

The voices of earth's secret soul - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"

A nameless hunger of the soul - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

The mark of a soul's command - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"

And makes my soul obedient to her will - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Light my love's eyes to read my soul - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "God-Made"

Each soul may take his fondest choice - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"

As one true soul may smile upon another - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Such idle tenants of the soul - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"

Breezes that set the soul awhirl - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Shed my very soul down into your thought - D.H. Lawrence "Bitterness of Death"

The deep cold that had sunk to my soul - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"

Laughter that shakes the sail of the ship of the soul - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

Compelling my soul to conform - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

Have cajoled the souls of millions - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

How many shadows in your soul - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"

Ageless aristocracy of a peerless soul - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

Those sighs that rend her aching soul - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

Of matchless might and fearless soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The untasted bait that bribed my soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Our souls in fee for Circe's glamour - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)

Starry souls untainted of the clay - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

The whole dark butchery without a soul - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"

Like souls in Hades wailing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The soul of a stranger - David Lehman "Who She Was"

Every soul in the company snoring - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

That gambled with the souls of men - Margaret Leigh "Two Epitaphs: I. On a Diplomat"

The body is a birdcage of the soul - R.B. Lemberg "The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" [31 March 2025]

Out of order, out of tune, out of sense, out of soul - R.B. Lemberg "The Ghosts of Me Are in Your Machine" [Strange Horizons 15 Dec. 2025]

When sorrows crowd the soul - Lermontof "Prayer [In moments of life's trial]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

All joys of soul or sense - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"

Let the Furies rend her guilty soul - Amy Levy "Medea"

At the flowing fountain of his soul - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Soul waves wash the eternal shore - Mrs. Estelle Anna Lewis "Sonnets: Joys of Intellectual Employment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]

So unholy my soul cannot drink - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"

Against the back fences of my soul - M.L. Liebler "Another Ah Sunflower!"

Waiting for gentle souls to offer help - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Our old souls and our new souls met - Vachel Lindsay "Meeting Ourselves"

While the soul's deep Mississippi sweeps on - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"

That soul a mirror true - Elizabeth Lyon Linsley "Lines to an Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

Sobbing throat of my soul's secret - J. Wm. Lloyd "Violin"

Such dreams as brought poor souls mishap - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Castle in the Air"

That my soul cannot resist - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"

Mostly disjointed pieces of my soul - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"

Which warns the soul of sundering darkness - Amy Lowell "The End"

To burn our souls before altars dim - Amy Lowell "New York at Night"

Waked all the echoes of the soul - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

The world's soul-squandering ways - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

A strong soul trampled from its throne - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]

As the iron enters the riven soul - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Whose inmost soul hard bondage racks and wrings - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Haunt not my seered soul - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

Fall back in dust upon my soul - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

When the soul's garden blooms in sight - Annie Macdonell "Reiselust" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]

Arts which taught the soul excess of bliss - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Their soft dyes had steeped my soul - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"

The only soul left without wings - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"

Whose soul is secret as the evening-star - James Allan Mackereth "Hail and Farewell"

Took my soul to light a shrine - Archibald MacLeish "Charity"

And their soul is Yesterday - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"

Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

While my soul tips through the stars alone - Naomi Long Madgett "Star Journey"

A valley of the soul forever undisturbed - Maurice Maeterlinck "Bell-Glasses" transl. by Bernard Miall

In the castles of my soul this summer - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall

A poor little festival in the suburbs of my soul - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall

With a great soul's deepest love - Jeannette Marks "His Name"

The mused soul that dwells in dust - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Brief lords of the changing soul - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Who mints his soul to laughter's coin - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

The soul's spoken melody - George Martin "Thomas D'Arcy McGee"

And bid our souls ascend - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

Annull'd the bond that sold the soul of man to man - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

And uttered devil-dictums to our souls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 30" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Used and misused like things without a soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

On the soul's moors the winds of spring are blowing - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Discharged chaos waves through our souls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Ironical winds of the soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The apathetic mind and forfeit soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The pupil dilated to the wellspring of her soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Whose souls were frozen through - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In dread ecstatic all souls raised their knell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Space made of stone enclosed the souls of men - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The soul's will rose more clearly into view - Harry Martinson "Aniara 101" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Where my extended Soul is fixt - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Those moments of the soul - John Masefield "Biography"

Upon the soul a check, an inhibition, a control - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Drives the lovely soul to wander - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"

Derelict soul in a body accurst - John Masefield "Sorrow of Mydath"

For my soul will follow seaward - John Masefield "The Turn of the Tide"

Words of your clandestine soul - Edgar Lee Masters "Editor Whedon"

With my soul upon my lips - Edgar Lee Masters "Francis Turner"

The dim souls of the crocuses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"

A power of unison between souls - Edgar Lee Masters "William and Emily"

To salt your souls with scorn - Theodore Maynard "Ave"

My soul unshaken by the ruin - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Here the sword within the soul - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"

Sorceries wherein men's souls grow wise - Theodore Maynard "Pride"

Those five gateways of the soul - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"

If life's gloomy pathway terrifies your wandering soul - Justin H. McCarthy "Consolation"

With soul on fire the singer roves - Justin H. McCarthy "Hafiz in London"

I will hide my soul - George Marion McClellan "In the Heart of a Rose"

My slumbering soul awoke in light - James Ephraim McGirt "A Mystery"

That filled my soul like cooling wine - Claude McKay "Memorial"

Through hours of soulful dread - Claude McKay "One Year After"

Hide my tortured soul - Claude McKay "Poetry"

Betray the secret of your soul - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"

Of calm love and soulful snows - Claude McKay "To Winter"

Capture the depth of your soul - Risalet Merdan "Dreams of You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

That sing his soul in stone - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Life in soul and shell - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Our souls were in our names - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

When from her soul divorced - George Meredith "The Spirit of Shakespeare"

So in soul's desire - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Riding souls of men to night - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Beat my soul into the highway dust - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Hidden things my soul has sealed in silence - Alice Meynell "Free Will"

All my soul became a tower - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

In infinite remorse of soul - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Renascence"

Stern in my soul's chastity - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

But finds the soul snatched from his words - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Snuffed Out"

Where souls could be mended in secret - Claire Millikin "Witness"

Bid the soul of Orpheus sing - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

My soul cries out to thee in bitter need - Mir "[What kind of comforter art thou to me?]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Throng the bugles of the soul - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

Souls mad for truth have lit from peak to peak - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"

The steepness of my soul - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Catskills Retreat"

Controlling the weather of souls - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Stacy"

Which bade her soul rejoice - Dugald Moore "Julia"

Within whose soul the fire of the eternal lived - George L. Moore "Keats"

Upon the tablet of the human soul - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

No other angle finishes my soul - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 46"

With constant soul in good or ill - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

The five gateways of the soul - Lewis Morris "At the End"

Gilding the net wherein his soul was caught - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"

With more dread t' impress the soul - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."

Sailing like soulful birds - Walter Dean Myers "Willie Arnold, 30, Alto Sax Player"

But is there soul behind that face - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Of dead souls hanging in the air - Jaye Nasir "November"

The long bow of my timid soul - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (5)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Will brace our souls for greater tasks - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"

Then night must hear from my soul's deep - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"

Your soulful, ardent fires - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

No harbor for my soul - Francis Neilson "Roaming"

Sharpened the edge of his soul - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid

Dissolving the iron in the soul - Pablo Neruda "Bread-Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

The four stations of the soul - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid

So much walking among souls and roots - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly

The lamp of my soul dyes your feet - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin

The soul rises with instant roses - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Sticking to the seams of the soul - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Blood from the fountain of your soul - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Between the shadow and the soul - Pablo Neruda "Sonnet XXV"

The stubborn root of my soul - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

A Medici through to my soul - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

In the world that is my soul - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

Soul of zeal and lips of flame - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"

amber pearls overflow lonesome soul - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "Afternoon still-life" transl. by Phương Anh

hiding in the heart forever a soul enchanted - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "final final night" transl. by Phương Anh

Will seek to claim the tempest of thy soul - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

To touch his dreaming soul with radiance - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Veiled Altar, or the Poet's Dream" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]

Such as my shrouded soul affords - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Drying up all tears of my soul - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

Perhaps my soul understands more than my heart can know - Margaret Noodin "I Am Undefeated" transl. by the author

While the sky hums she pours the liquid of her soul - Margaret Noodin "Together Between" transl. by the author

To recognize the interior of my soul - Margaret Noodin "Work" transl. by the author

The kindred company of worn and stricken souls - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"

For one time-conquering soul - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Naked agony that first woke the soul - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

battered souls never leave a grief poem whole - CP Nwankwo "Error 404: Expiation Not Found" [20 Oct. 2025]

You learn something strange when you garden for souls - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

To all the soul builds high - Thomas O'Hagan "Giotto's Campanile"

Only the winds disturb my soul - Thomas O'Hagan "Song of the Zeppelin"

The soul that grows in darkness - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"

If your soul in dread torments should lie - Old Humphrey "The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown"

Be still, my soul, and steadfast - Mary Oliver "The Gift"

No proof of the soul - Mary Oliver "Whistling Swans"

The hidden nymph in her soul - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

The soul's bleak weather - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

The sacred cloister of our souls - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Stole on fairy wings into my waiting soul - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

By her own soul possessed - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

Peace is the soul's desire - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"

Transform the mirror of his soul - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Are You My Cousin"

To-morrow my untented soul will range - John Oxenham "Nightfall"

The garden draws life from a triple soul - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

A soul of storm and pitch - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Unheeded prayers of souls condemned - Kostes Palamas "The Return" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

But his soul was knit to the whirlwind - Herbert E. Palmer "A Sinn Feiner"

A nourishment of my empty soul - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Whose myrmidons ever are questing for souls - Emil Pataja "Marmok" [Futuria Fantasia, winter 1940]

As my soul's eye raised the shadows - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Breathe new souls into their names - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Nostalgia and fear of the bomb live in our souls - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"

Six hundred separate souls the playwright's puppet has to woo - Murdock Pemberton "Matinee" [The Broadway Anthology]

He's run the gamut of the soul - Murdock Pemberton "The Old Chorus Man" [The Broadway Anthology]

Only the greatest souls can speak - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

The soul can take no lower flight - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

Of dormant sense and soul - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"

Bestowed on him life and soul - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)

Gives unto my famished soul - Charles Phillips "Music"

Wandering souls in a state of probation - James E. Pickering "The Call of the Mountains"

The little souls that are so hard to find - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

On the shoulders of the soul - Robert Pinsky "On a Line of Hart Crane's"

Of soul and body lose the mastery - Po-Chu'i "The Harper of Chao" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Beguiling all my sad soul into smiling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

Whose souls the Furies steeled - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Created outside of souls - Emilio Porta "Circle"

Surrender your soul to the spell - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]

Brightener of my soul's eclipse - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"

Naiad of my soul's deep streams - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"

In sacred strains my soul survives my dust - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

Where the sun-crowned souls sit peerless - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Stings his soul with a deeper despair - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

A soul that treads without retreat - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"

Scoffed to see my soul's despair - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An August Night"

Bound my soul with chains of earth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Confidence"

Feeds his soul at Wisdom's lip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"

Soul of solitariness, unblest - Theodore H. Rand "The Loon"

In the soul's own hot equators - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

A slave with soul on freedom bent - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Saadi and the Rose"

Until my soul was melted into song - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

I hold the souls of men in my pot - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

And taught the soul the mystery of fear - W.H. Rhodes "The Emerald Isle"

The microbes frozen in each soul - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Take the temperature of the soul - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

All but the footprint of your soul - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

With no fierce hungers in my soul - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Freed from the harsh fires of the soul - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Running over my soul without sound - Lola Ridge "Secrets"

Who barters the souls in his snares - Lola Ridge "A Toast"

A crested virtue of his inanchored soul - Lynn Riggs "The Golden Cockerel"

The thin dun soil of my soul - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

Take our worn souls Home - James Whitcombe Riley "Out of the Hitherwhere"

In his soul as in a palace - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

Smother flying souls that pass - Duane W. Rimel "Late Revenge" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

From the solitary etudes of the soul - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Whose soul had the edge of a knife - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

Our souls rejected still defeat - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"

Within his soul a shrine of memories - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hermit"

The sorcery that subdues the souls of men - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"

Soul of the lily flower - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"

Soul of fire and seed of sod - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"

Old to the soul when the stars were new - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"

Wreck of the lost human soul left free - Rennell Rodd "Actea"

Lest the soul should wake - Alice Wellington Rollins "Longing"

My soul will open secret doors to thee - Morris Rosenfeld "My Youth" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

In my soul's eclipse I could not stir - George Rostrevor "The Haunted Street"

The soul unto the vast has wings - George William Russell "Symbolism"

By the shade of our souls - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"

The soul's emblem meets my downcast eyes - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]

What frowns o'ershade the weeping soul - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Who count the moneyed value of your soul - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"

Souls bared through enmity - Vita Sackville-West "Trio"

Whose secret influence fills us with its soul - "A Sacred Grove" [Household Words no.26, Sept. 21, 1850]

Lead to the soul's desire - "Sacrifice"

The deepest caverns of my soul - San Juan de la Cruz (translated by Roy Campbell) "Song of the soul in intimate communication and union with the love of God"

Received the rose-leaf soul - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

The soul of fire fell - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

A soul of dreams and thoughts and memories - Carl Sandburg "Skyscraper"

The false deeps of all the soul are sand - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

The soul's garden you have weeded - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Handed out to feed hungry souls - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

Why Nietzsche sought his soul's sympathy - Philip Schultz "Googling Ourselves"

Soul sister to the whippoorwill & crow - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

Our souls shall taste nirvana in such sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

Dusk-dream of my soul - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"

The wings of the soul emerge - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"

Though the wolf of bitterness gnawed his soul - Clinton Scollard "Pierol's Christmas"

My soul unfurls its sails - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

Fashioned from the mirror of the soul - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems II"

Desolation flooded through my soul - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

What the strings would say concerning my soul - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

How the soul finally falls - Tim Seibles "Unmarked"

Our souls thrilling to their quickening tempest - M. Bartley Seigel "Manitou"

Strung your soul to silence - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"

In the abyss his soul he stripped - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

My soul bowed down with grief and care - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Soothing her love-laden soul - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

And led the soul along a way of tears - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"

The legend of a soul's refashioning - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Sin"

Free to strike the sweet harp of the secret soul - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"

On which all my soul's hopes hang - Paulus Silentarius "241. ["Farewell" is on my tongue]" (translated by William Roger Paton)

Though my soul with grief grew wild - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]

Let that soul moan in its own hell - Alexander Smith "[There have been vast displays of critic wit]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

The glory from my ardent soul is fading - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

Announced the thunderous entry of passing souls - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"

Who scavenge the fields for lost souls - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Soul of the sea's vast emerald - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"

Closes the soul in a crypt of dread - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

That form the raiment of the soul - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Only known to souls of truth - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Your two tangled souls - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"

Our strange souls and curious desires - Edith Sodergran "Pain" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahokas

The soul beyond its silhouette - Richard Solomon "Conversion"

Neglecting the fracture on my soul - Niloufar-Lily Soltani "A Mountain on My Back"

The mountains and the ravines of the soul - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

No stab the soul can kill - Anonymous "The Soul's Errand"

Souls bound by a single longing - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

You must have a soul to clutch - Anne Spencer "Neighbors" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A soul with a pockmarked, bitten past - Elizabeth Spires "Badger Disguised as a Monk"

The pilgrim soul tracking deeper - Elizabeth Spires "Sunday Morning at the Carmelite Monastery"

There falls the iron from the soul - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"

Steals the soul with her song - "Stanzas"

Buoyed by the soul's desire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

A soul shall change its frame - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"

Wraps our yearning souls around - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Or take the curse from off thy soul - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

For now his soul has taken iron - George Sterling "Henri"

To move the waters in our soul's deep well - W. Horry Stilwell "Lines to --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]

The yearning of the soul toward one allied - W. Horry Stilwell "Lines to --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]

To fill the mouths of hungry souls - "Stool-Ball"

An Orpheus wilder-souled - Arthur J. Stringer "Beethoven"

The ocean that thunders upon man's soul - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"

Felt my soul within me reel and sway - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"

The pale Boreal Child sang to the soul of Naught - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A herald soul before its master's flying - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

Soul as clear as sunlit dew - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

From heights where the soul would be - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Where the soul's delight takes fire - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Mute were all the echoes of his soul - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Eyes that burn with the soul's restless fire - C.E.T. "Song--Thou Reign'st Supreme" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]

Guaranteed to harness the departed souls - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

A soul unattached creates its own sweet solitude - Tao Yuan-Ming "Chrysanthemums" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

When soul and breath scatter - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

The cloistered Soul lies frozen in her trances - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta I: The Prelude"

Can souls forget what bodies keep - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XV: Memoria Submersa"

Pluck frenzy from the amazed soul - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XVII: The Enigma"

Your dry soul crumbles by dim degrees - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXII: The Sum of Things to Another Woman"

A spoil of roses coffered in the soul - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LV: Treasure"

Impose rare sigils on your gem-like souls - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta: The Epilogue of the Dreaming Women"

But what if my soul broke faith with you? - Sara Teasdale "Doubt"

Empty my soul of the dreams that have gathered - Sara Teasdale "I Would Live in Your Love"

Not only tears and time but souls and selves - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

To call your distant soul their own - Henry David Thoreau "The Atlantides"

Soul forsaken at the call of clay - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"

Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The chore of slaying lost souls - Edwin Torres "A Minotaur Sleeps on Shelter Island"

Pilgrim souls that will not sleep - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"

The dim psychic crystals of my soul - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"

Where starving souls are kept - Iris Tree "Streets"

Penitent souls through haunted corridors - Iris Tree "Streets"

With all her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

Her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

All the echoed melodies of your soul - Iris Tree "[Washed at my feet by the curded foam of sluggish waves]"

Like souls flying into the hole no one can see - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Or ruffle the soul's lightest plume - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines VI"

Dry as dust while your soul drowns in tears - John Trudell "What Happens/Sarcee Song"

Faceless souls dancing in its ashes - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]

The wind played in his trembling soul - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

In which he drew his soul's exalted cry - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Where the thin silver soul of the stars silently dances - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

The tyrant soul to pity ne'er subdued - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]

The soul informed with heavenly flame - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]

The beauty of an orchid with the soul of a weed - Rudolph Valentino "Extravaganza"

Grown to the fullest stature of the perfect soul - Rudolph Valentino "Remembrance (To M.O.)"

From the soul of that sanctuary of sound - Rudolph Valentino "Stradivarius (To Jascha Heifetz)"

Nothing could touch the little soul of the grain - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Meet the sunrise of the soul - Henry van Dyke "Reliance"

In some brighter dreams call to the soul - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"

And sings a dirge for dying souls - Thomas Vautor "Sweet Suffolk Owl"

Beyond the soul everything is a mirror - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

And feel my torpid soul within me burn - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Soothe the soul with sorrow aching - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]

My soul awaken at Hope's glad summons - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]

The lost idea of the visible soul - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

My soul reclaimed again - Margaret Walker "Southern Song"

Swept by the eyes of my soul - Charles William Wallace "My Defeat"

Where soul treads hard on soul and makes no sign - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "May Term, 1916"

Fail to satisfy the appetites of the soul - Wang Chi "On Going to a Tavern" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Leaking one's soul for want of an angel - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Wraps my soul in dread repose - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Pledged his soul and heart and hand - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"

A soul newly-minted each exhalation of light - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]

To let your soul teach the world - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"

Thither my startled soul she brings - Edith Wharton "Dieu d'Amour [a Castle in Cyprus]"

The soul from her lone dream - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

My soul sinks crying - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"

To read the soul beneath - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

Each with musing soul retire - Walt Whitman "Hush'd Be the Camps Today"

Twined with the chant of my soul - Walt Whitman "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Altars to their souls' fine fires - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"

In thought and act, in soul and sense - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

All vain souls candles when noon is - William Carlos Williams "Homage"

Old heroic souls unblest - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

'Tis not the soul that crumbles - Joseph R. Wilson "Avaunt! Ye Tears"

Entered the gates of my soul - Joseph R. Wilson "Blind Beggar of Albuquerque"

And our souls learn wonderful lessons - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"

In the bitterness of his soul - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 7" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Will pollute his soul with another man's meats - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 40" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"

Weave a net your soul to stay - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Nor does my soul need an audience - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

The book of their souls has come to an end - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

While my soul lives by the waters - "XXVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

How I am afflicted in my soul - "XXVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Change the clothes in which their soul was born - John Yau "Russian Letter"

What most could shake his soul - W.B. Yeats "Tom at Cruachan"

The one stitched to your soul - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

As many vessels as there are lost souls - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

Ties of self wherewith my soul is bound - Zafar "[Mine eyes were shut]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Whence did the yearnings of the soul arise - Zahir "[Whence did the yearnings of the soul arise]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Many souls hold galaxies' weight - Felicia Zamora "America, Let Us Pause"

The pearls in the soul of my sea - Melike Ziyawudun "Top Secret" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A maelstrom of fiery soul - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver

Did you say my soul mattered? - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"


Born of high-souled hope - Algernon Swinburne "To Dora Dorian"

That meteor-soul divine - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

The soul-blight of a nation - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"

Pencils of fire limn visions of soul-large desire - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"

On its clouds a soul-reflected light - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

dead dry pods holding dormant soulseeds - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Echoes faint of sad and soul-sick cries - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Played with soul-sinews cracking - Herbert E. Palmer "A Game of Chess"

Clear of the saddest soul-stench - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

My poor lyre is strung with soul-strings - J.R.L. "Sonnet [If some small savor creep into my rhyme]" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]

Do not accept, we whisper down the soul-webs - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

The fire of the star-souled Lucifer - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Two-souled, forgotten, unknown freaks of memory - Robin Coste Lewis "Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple"


At Mammon's soulless shrine - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Quiet soulless winter - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"


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