Potential Titles: Longing
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somethingdarkerLonged to pour galaxies down his throat - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Rooted in the things unknown but longed for - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"
Lead me through a cavern of longing - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
An air less rare than longing might - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"
The water surrounds me with longing - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
Skips stones across the pond of longing - Julia Alvarez "Tone"
Fragrant with the scent of love and longing - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"
The longing for what can destroy us - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake in this Case Was"
My longings ripen into worth - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "The Plains of Peace"
Tuned to the frequency of longing - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"
the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Fills my lungs with longing - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
A longing for invisible treasure - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Quench the thirst of the longing heart - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
An interior rush of nomadic longing - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
Sweet in fond longings - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Wild longings through us steal - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Our lofty hopes and longing eyes - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
All longing in safe banishment - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"
The cartography of longing - Kendra DeColo "Seville"
Made & remade by longing - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
From the spell of abject longing - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
The lengths involved in the longing - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"
Yet some backward longings press - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
What her longing fingers zeal had wrought - John Freeman "Waiting"
The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
Who had clothed you in my longing - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
Whose patron saints are longing and despair - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"
A breath of shaken longing - Mona Gould "Immortal"
When longing for the unknown - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"
New and afire with longing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Fidelity"
Though secretly longing to join the diversion - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
Our longing for height - Edward Hirsch "Bertolt Brecht"
Without longing in my mind - "I Have a Young Sister"
With tears of love and longing - Lionel Johnson "Desideria"
Or force my lips to gratify your longing - "Jonathan to John Bull" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
The longing for renewal - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"
Secure in the company of my longing - Donika Kelly "I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house."
On the swift longing face of the river - Archibald Lampman "Spring on the River"
No longing to shatter himself - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"
The largest dinner bell in the state of longing - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
In longing for shadowy planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Ghazal of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Catherine Brown)
Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"
The harbor of your longing - Mary Oliver "Mornings at Blackwater"
The color of my longing - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Thrill bright witchcraft through my longing mind - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
A keen longing which shadows forth regret - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Returned -- "Missing" (Five Years After)"
The Earth has steeped in longing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
An agony of longing to dream again - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
From infinite longings finite deeds - Rainer Maria Rilke "Symbols" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Eager and longing to break - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dawn"
Run from labyrinths of longing - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Michael Roloff
My worthless shards of longing - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Ripe with longing - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"
Change my vagrant longings - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"
Souls bound by a single longing - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson
Magnify the longings of the mind - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 2: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Longing for the public pull of prior swagger - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Though our fretted longings reel - Iris Tree "Islands"
Full of longing and confusion - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
Longing for the pierce of stars - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"
The immortal tides of longing - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
My wings of longing fail me - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
In a vain longing for the further shore - Humbert Wolfe "Orpheus"
All things longing for rest - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
In forlornest need and longing-plight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"
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Rooted in the things unknown but longed for - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"
Lead me through a cavern of longing - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
An air less rare than longing might - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"
The water surrounds me with longing - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
Skips stones across the pond of longing - Julia Alvarez "Tone"
Fragrant with the scent of love and longing - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"
The longing for what can destroy us - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake in this Case Was"
My longings ripen into worth - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "The Plains of Peace"
Tuned to the frequency of longing - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"
the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Fills my lungs with longing - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
A longing for invisible treasure - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Quench the thirst of the longing heart - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
An interior rush of nomadic longing - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
Sweet in fond longings - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Wild longings through us steal - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Our lofty hopes and longing eyes - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
All longing in safe banishment - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"
The cartography of longing - Kendra DeColo "Seville"
Made & remade by longing - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
From the spell of abject longing - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
The lengths involved in the longing - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"
Yet some backward longings press - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
What her longing fingers zeal had wrought - John Freeman "Waiting"
The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
Who had clothed you in my longing - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
Whose patron saints are longing and despair - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"
A breath of shaken longing - Mona Gould "Immortal"
When longing for the unknown - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"
New and afire with longing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Fidelity"
Though secretly longing to join the diversion - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
Our longing for height - Edward Hirsch "Bertolt Brecht"
Without longing in my mind - "I Have a Young Sister"
With tears of love and longing - Lionel Johnson "Desideria"
Or force my lips to gratify your longing - "Jonathan to John Bull" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
The longing for renewal - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"
Secure in the company of my longing - Donika Kelly "I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house."
On the swift longing face of the river - Archibald Lampman "Spring on the River"
No longing to shatter himself - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"
The largest dinner bell in the state of longing - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
In longing for shadowy planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Ghazal of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Catherine Brown)
Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"
The harbor of your longing - Mary Oliver "Mornings at Blackwater"
The color of my longing - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Thrill bright witchcraft through my longing mind - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
A keen longing which shadows forth regret - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Returned -- "Missing" (Five Years After)"
The Earth has steeped in longing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
An agony of longing to dream again - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
From infinite longings finite deeds - Rainer Maria Rilke "Symbols" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Eager and longing to break - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dawn"
Run from labyrinths of longing - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Michael Roloff
My worthless shards of longing - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Ripe with longing - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"
Change my vagrant longings - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"
Souls bound by a single longing - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson
Magnify the longings of the mind - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 2: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Longing for the public pull of prior swagger - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Though our fretted longings reel - Iris Tree "Islands"
Full of longing and confusion - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
Longing for the pierce of stars - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"
The immortal tides of longing - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
My wings of longing fail me - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
In a vain longing for the further shore - Humbert Wolfe "Orpheus"
All things longing for rest - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
In forlornest need and longing-plight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
