Potential Titles: Laughter

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Laugh.


The milk of their laughter - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

And crack the sky with laughter - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Chilled our laughter, stilled our play - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Your laughter in an oyster shell - Nuola Akinde "Migration"

Unless it be the music of her laughter - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

And first there came a bitter laughter - William Allingham "A Dream"

Hatching eggs of laughter - Zaina Alsous "bird survives the death of Nature"

Disappear into smoke and laughter- Raymond Antrobus "The Perseverance"

A wisp of jests and the laughter - Frank D. Ashburn "The Lost Legion"

The laughter of a cosmic joke - Mary Jo Bang "Here We All Are With Daphne"

The lute that was his laughter - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

laughter whirling from each tree - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

I hear it in the mighteous laughter of the sea - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Agonies that end in laughter - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"

Still had strength for laughter and scorn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Wanting to trace your laughter - Richard Blanco "Three Unendings"

A dwindling gift are you, laughter - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"

But only fill afresh his meed of laughter, his cup of tears - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"

Wide before the eye as laughter - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"

With soft and drunken laughter - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

Shreds of shadowy laughter - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

Bold electric laughter - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Adept fashioned it with laughter - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]

To be a cyclone of laughter - Chen Chen "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities"

With mystery and iron laughter stirred - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

The mad laughter of evolution issues from our lips - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

Mocking echoes of our laughter - Carrie Williams Clifford "Together"

As though laughter wards off death - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"

Changed my thoughts to laughter - Hilda Conkling "The Green Palm Tree"

A quenchless laughter ringing- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"

Makes a grail of laughter - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque"

Winds of tickling laughter - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

Witch-lights of laughter - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"

Laughter from a madness so divine - Ruben Dario "A Sonnet on Cervantes" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

The light of his laughter - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"

maybe It doesn't care about our laughter - Hílda Davis "Pilate ponders where she belongs"

The rain of heavenly laughters - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

Becoming involved in her laughter - T.S. Eliot "Hysteria"

And the Squire's eyes dwell on laughter - Eleanor Farjeon "The Quest"

Count the cost of golden laughter - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"

Like loud and yawning laughter - John Gould Fletcher "City Lights"

With long cascades of laughter - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Curtains of her laughter - t'ai freedom ford "Answers"

Carefree laughter echoing in the dark - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

Day of wind and laughter - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Tragedy expires in peals of laughter - Thomas Gent "Poems"

Murmuring laughter and heart-easing tears - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

Her laughter a holy lie - Andrea Gibson "Black and White Angel"

Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"

Buried light in laughter and hay forever - Dora Greenwell "Haymaking" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Slippery with dew and laughter - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"

Through the cloud of rum and laughter - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"

Laughter of singing thrushes - F.W. Harvey "Happy Singing"

Your laughter like suns that are set - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"

Silent laughter and an open mouth - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"

Knowing what her laughter shields - Robert Hayden "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"

Around a sunken circle of laughter - Clemonce Heard "The United States of Montessori"

Laughter flickering back from shine to shade - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Laughter across the intervening stars - R.M. Hewitt "Gaudium in Coelo"

Laughter hardening the dusk - Langston Hughes "Railroad Avenue"

Bitter laughter and bitter tears - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 2 [Men of a certain age]"

Their laughter flickering in the silences - Jess Hyslop "After"

her laughter calling to the orioles - Gary Jackson "Fly"

A festival of collaged laughter - Major Jackson "Spain"

Fill up your throat with laughter - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

Against the relentless laughter of evil - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"

When I hear afar their whirling laughter - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

A ripped-out document of laughter - Ilya Kaminsky "A Cigarette"

Aspen's conspiring laughter - Arlene Keizer "Canopy"

Unhallowed mirth shrieks frantic laughter - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"

Where tears brought them to laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

A white moon opening countless false mouths of laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Laughter in a silver shower - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"

Laughter echoes from the vaulted roof - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Your laughter thrown in the wind's face - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"

The laughter of Night in his lair - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Only pray laughter comes often - Audre Lorde "Today Is Not the Day"

Isles of blades and laughter - Kenneth MacLeod "The Reiving Ship"

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

Beauty chased by tragic laughter - John Masefield "King Cole"

A crooked city built of laughter - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

The lure and laughter of the sea - Theodore Maynard "The Glory of the Oriflamme"

To hear that sacred laughter - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"

The little Imp of Laughter - Theodore Maynard "A Song of Laughter"

The stars with their laughter - Theodore Maynard "A Song of Laughter"

Canyons that gave back my laughter - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"

To waken laughter from cold stones - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

Makes everyone the same as laughter - Joseph Millar "Venetian Siesta"

From the shocking laughter - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

The faint laughter of ghosts - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Has borrowed laughter from the sky - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

Laughter like a rope - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Sense danger in the sea's laughter - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XXXIX" transl. by William O'Daly

Surrounded by laughter with bottles of oblivion - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XXXIX" transl. by William O'Daly

In your gold laughter and your crystal voice - Pablo Neruda "Farewell and Sobs: Love" translated by Ilan Stavans

The meteor of your laughter - Pablo Neruda "Midday L" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Hear the Oread's laughter pealing - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Kissed him with ripples of laughter - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

Refusing to forget laughter - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arab Festival T-shirt"

To a chalice of tears and of laughter - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"

my foundation ungrounded from laughter - Porsha Olayiwola "The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man!"

Sink hole from which hell's laughter issues - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

The laughter of the Naiads' [sic] is my song - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"

Our bodies also lighter with laughter - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

The broken laughter of the long abandoned - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"

Allowing laughter to wake again - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"

While sister sprites wake laughter - Theodore H. Rand "The Crystal Spring"

With a mellow and secret laughter - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Laughter in the night's valleys - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"

Laughter in tears and malice in mirth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"

With the bitter twist of ingrown laughter - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

Wished for a moment of laughter - Jade Riordan "We Others"

The silence shattered by the laughter of the loon - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

And mirthless laughter of the loon - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

With only laughter for the havoc we have made - Lloyd Roberts "The Madness of Winds"

When songs were laughter and hope - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Nor mock with laughter his most subtle lies - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Above the wind's low laughter - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: II. The Pioneer"

The eldritch laughters of the wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Find our laughter between the horror - Danez Smith "anti poetica"

Some ghostly laughter in the shrubbery - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

The sorrow of Time's laughter - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"

Who hath strange laughter - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

To the sunny storm of laughter - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Light laughter to ease our brimming hearts - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]

All our conversations and laughter are silent - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Flung me the apple of eternal laughter - Iris Tree "[From the fathomless depth of my boredom]"

The eternal flame of laughter - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

The laughter of the thrushes - Iris Tree "London"

Into the cleanliness of laughter - Dorothy Tse "Cloth Birds"

In our citrus laughter - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Crossover Album"

Turns to laughter in our laps - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

The loon's weird laughter far away - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Will crush forth our laughter - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

And the merciless laughter of the moon pursues - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

With laughter on her banners - William Wordsworth "Composed by the Sea-Side, Near Calais, August, 1802"

Found a resting-place for laughter - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

Full of nothing but laughter - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"

With the laughter of water - Alfonso Guillen Zelaya "Lord, I Ask a Garden..." transl. by William George Williams


River sends her laughter-lights - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"


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