Potential Titles: Teach/Taught
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somethingdarkerTeach you model methods for enslaving humankind - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Teaching time to the clock - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Go Back"
What tragedy was always trying to teach - Mary Jo Bang "Tragedy"
To teach Death more skill than he had before - J. Bastard "The World" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.379, 4 July 1829]
Persuade the squirrels to teach me - Clive Bell "March"
Teach us the hard-truths and hurt - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
As if pain teaches truth - Rafael Campo "California"
Teach me a little bit of nothing - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"
Teach old hearts to break - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Teach old hearts to rest - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Teach the water to forget - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To teach the folks the proper way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
And teach you the meaning of regret - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Teach us the tongues of the angry - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Teaching the land how to fear - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Suffering teaches you to suffer - Andrew Feld "The Boxers"
To teach me my disobediences - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"
Can teach the hour to speak - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
Things to teach us leaving - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
Teach your daughters how to outrun death - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
Nor any words that lips can teach - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Teach me the fine art of subtraction - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
The apple of gold will teach him a song - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Which midnight studies teach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Teach my drooping hope to live - Fanny Kemble "Absence"
Teach the mind that hears their music - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Teach the shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
Teach me to leave dreams alone - Audre Lorde "Change"
Teaches the withering leaves to rejoice - Francis J. Lys "Autumn"
Where critics teach the ignorant - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
The manifold teachings of ocean, and forest, and sky - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
To teach philosophers the thirst of thieves - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Teach the geography of death - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly
The dead who teach us how to count - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Teach the hunted deer to escape - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"
Teaching me how to love the world again - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
I imagine learning what you'd already try to teach me - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
The present teach, and warn all future times - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
The memory has a power to teach - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The wind has a lesson to teach - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"
Teach the eaves the tunes - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"
Praise the Ocean for teaching me - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Repaid me by teaching me how to carry it - Maggie Smith "What I Carried"
Who learns and teaches free - James Stephens "The College of Science"
That time would teach her dream - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
To teach the body to be hollow - May Swenson "That the Soul May Wax Plump"
To teach our sober-footed hours to fly - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Because someone has to teach us life's bite - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
To teach Omnipotence - "To the Mocking-Bird"
To teach the dinosaurs about ritual practice - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Teach me how to confide - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"
To let your soul teach the world - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"
I teach above the stars to fly - Wyat "Virtue" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Beneath us the teachers - Robert Bly "Gratitude to Old Teachers"
A gentle fiery teacher - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
Will make you a teacher of kings - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Taught recombinant DNA to recombine - Duane Ackerson "What If"
Who taught me to burn - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
By steel and flame you taught - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
To be taught and tamed by their crystal wills - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Taught us to be islands - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
The people Cromwell taught - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"
Be taught to treasure - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
Who taught you menaces - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The boys who taught me tears - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"
Succubi that Hecate taught - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Water is taught by thirst - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LI"
By nature taught to please - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Taught myself who I was - Farnaz Fatemi "Farnaz"
to be taught by the elite how to make a democracy - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
That taught the sun to share - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Taught me all each songster said - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Strict time has taught him patience - Sarah Getty "Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart"
And has taught them all the secrets - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
With magic spell had taught my untaught heart - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
By rustic Time well taught - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"
Wounded pride first taught her how to hate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
For all the sea taught you - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"
Who taught Death romantic gestures - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Taught the cicadas how to die - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
No knowledge taught by unrelenting years - Amy Lowell "Hero-Worship"
Where the wind first taught the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
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]
Who taught me how to scare you - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"
In the language most of them were taught - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Taught Punic faith and mocked the laws - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
And taught me how to tear away my mask - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "An Interrupted Worker's Revelation"
The notes they've taught each other - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
Taught me beauty's lessons - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Have taught me the infinite - Pablo Neruda "So Is My Life" transl. by Miguel Algarin
The gentleness your questions taught - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"
Taught them to bloom round my bower - Henry Scott Riddell "The Bower of the Wild"
taught me more about impermanence than betrayal - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
In easy riddles taught the secret - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
And taught me art and glamourie - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
By spirits taught to write - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"
we are taught the beauty of the rose - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]
we taught each other when we did not know - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"
Taught me a hundred ways to win - Richard Solomon "A Toast for Ed"
And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
And taught the adolescent Serpent how to hiss - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
Taught you the art of deceit - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 196: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Taught them such gross heresy - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
For Starvation's been my mentor and has taught her lesson well - Rudolph Valentino "Hunger"
These broken arches have taught generations to build - Henry van Dyke "The Glory of Ruins"
Taught my tongue to wound - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"
Taught drowns and booms and vowels- Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"
Consider what good lessons you'd been taught - "The Whore"
Half-taught in anguish - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"
The untaught strain that sheds beauty on the rose - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
The wind once blew itself untaught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"
With magic spell had taught my untaught heart - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Yet untaught by shame and art - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
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Teaching time to the clock - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Go Back"
What tragedy was always trying to teach - Mary Jo Bang "Tragedy"
To teach Death more skill than he had before - J. Bastard "The World" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.379, 4 July 1829]
Persuade the squirrels to teach me - Clive Bell "March"
Teach us the hard-truths and hurt - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
As if pain teaches truth - Rafael Campo "California"
Teach me a little bit of nothing - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"
Teach old hearts to break - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Teach old hearts to rest - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Teach the water to forget - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To teach the folks the proper way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
And teach you the meaning of regret - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Teach us the tongues of the angry - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Teaching the land how to fear - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Suffering teaches you to suffer - Andrew Feld "The Boxers"
To teach me my disobediences - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"
Can teach the hour to speak - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
Things to teach us leaving - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
Teach your daughters how to outrun death - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
Nor any words that lips can teach - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Teach me the fine art of subtraction - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
The apple of gold will teach him a song - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Which midnight studies teach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Teach my drooping hope to live - Fanny Kemble "Absence"
Teach the mind that hears their music - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Teach the shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
Teach me to leave dreams alone - Audre Lorde "Change"
Teaches the withering leaves to rejoice - Francis J. Lys "Autumn"
Where critics teach the ignorant - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
The manifold teachings of ocean, and forest, and sky - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
To teach philosophers the thirst of thieves - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Teach the geography of death - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly
The dead who teach us how to count - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Teach the hunted deer to escape - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"
Teaching me how to love the world again - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
I imagine learning what you'd already try to teach me - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
The present teach, and warn all future times - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
The memory has a power to teach - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The wind has a lesson to teach - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"
Teach the eaves the tunes - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"
Praise the Ocean for teaching me - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Repaid me by teaching me how to carry it - Maggie Smith "What I Carried"
Who learns and teaches free - James Stephens "The College of Science"
That time would teach her dream - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
To teach the body to be hollow - May Swenson "That the Soul May Wax Plump"
To teach our sober-footed hours to fly - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Because someone has to teach us life's bite - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
To teach Omnipotence - "To the Mocking-Bird"
To teach the dinosaurs about ritual practice - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Teach me how to confide - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"
To let your soul teach the world - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"
I teach above the stars to fly - Wyat "Virtue" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Beneath us the teachers - Robert Bly "Gratitude to Old Teachers"
A gentle fiery teacher - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
Will make you a teacher of kings - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Taught recombinant DNA to recombine - Duane Ackerson "What If"
Who taught me to burn - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
By steel and flame you taught - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
To be taught and tamed by their crystal wills - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Taught us to be islands - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
The people Cromwell taught - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"
Be taught to treasure - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
Who taught you menaces - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The boys who taught me tears - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"
Succubi that Hecate taught - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Water is taught by thirst - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LI"
By nature taught to please - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Taught myself who I was - Farnaz Fatemi "Farnaz"
to be taught by the elite how to make a democracy - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
That taught the sun to share - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Taught me all each songster said - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Strict time has taught him patience - Sarah Getty "Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart"
And has taught them all the secrets - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
With magic spell had taught my untaught heart - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
By rustic Time well taught - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"
Wounded pride first taught her how to hate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
For all the sea taught you - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"
Who taught Death romantic gestures - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Taught the cicadas how to die - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
No knowledge taught by unrelenting years - Amy Lowell "Hero-Worship"
Where the wind first taught the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
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]
Who taught me how to scare you - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"
In the language most of them were taught - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Taught Punic faith and mocked the laws - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
And taught me how to tear away my mask - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "An Interrupted Worker's Revelation"
The notes they've taught each other - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
Taught me beauty's lessons - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Have taught me the infinite - Pablo Neruda "So Is My Life" transl. by Miguel Algarin
The gentleness your questions taught - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"
Taught them to bloom round my bower - Henry Scott Riddell "The Bower of the Wild"
taught me more about impermanence than betrayal - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
In easy riddles taught the secret - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
And taught me art and glamourie - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
By spirits taught to write - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"
we are taught the beauty of the rose - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]
we taught each other when we did not know - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"
Taught me a hundred ways to win - Richard Solomon "A Toast for Ed"
And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
And taught the adolescent Serpent how to hiss - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
Taught you the art of deceit - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 196: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Taught them such gross heresy - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
For Starvation's been my mentor and has taught her lesson well - Rudolph Valentino "Hunger"
These broken arches have taught generations to build - Henry van Dyke "The Glory of Ruins"
Taught my tongue to wound - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"
Taught drowns and booms and vowels- Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"
Consider what good lessons you'd been taught - "The Whore"
Half-taught in anguish - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"
The untaught strain that sheds beauty on the rose - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
The wind once blew itself untaught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"
With magic spell had taught my untaught heart - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Yet untaught by shame and art - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
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