Potential Titles: Yearn

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Surrendered to his sad yearning songs - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

With strong yearning and passionate pain - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

To yearn for flight is to fall into forever - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

The yearning call went out into the empty air - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"

Yearning beyond all sanity for some echo of that Song - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Remembered like a yearning chord - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"

Yearning for shadows and the darkened hours - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

All of my tired heart's yearning - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"

Yearning for your distant hands - Misha Collins "Clasped"

As the sea yearns after the moon - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"

Backlit from MRI dye, offset by yearning - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

The pain of restless music yearning - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

The large, yearning eyes of pale Narcissus - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

The color of all yearning - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"

Yearning for solace in desolate hours - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"

To crush the mighty yearning down - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

A yearning nature's strong appeal - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"

And often yearned in the shadows - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"

Snagged like the yearning in dreams - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"

Full of winy perfume and mystical yearning - William D. Howells "Clement"

Where sages may see what most they yearn - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

A gift of yearnings and despairs - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"

The mind's yearning for conceit - John James "Scarecrow"

All of that yearning to live on in burning - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

All of that burning to anchor the yearning - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

All the yearning mystery of death - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Your fond eyes and yearning hearts - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

My heart yearns to know - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Far from the deep yearning of gravity wells - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"

Dig my yearning into doom - Naomi Long Madgett "If Not in Summer"

My heart's accustomed yearning - Naomi Long Madgett "Next Spring"

Hearts that yearn upon my track - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]

And the heart of the east for the day is yearning - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

My days are gray with yearning - Dorothy Parker "Now at Liberty"

Dark forms yearning upward - Linda Pastan "Vertical"

Yearning to ring around a ventriloquist's echo - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

Yearning for the pale-eyed star - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

Yearnings such as solitude inspires - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"

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

The yearning of the blossom toward the fruit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

Call back the yearning which would follow - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "The Dead Child to its Mother" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]


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