Potential Titles: Luster/Lustre

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With new lustre burn - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

When its yellow lustre smiled - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"

Shone with metallic lustre, sombre fire - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Salute the crocus lustres of the stars - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Borrow luster from a bourbon sun - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Sunshine there in saddening lustre fall - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Tints of transparent lustre shine - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Full lavish of its lustre unrepressed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Irradiate as the astral glow of planetary lustre - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

New lustre on his old descent - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The perilous lustre of thy eyes - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

In the midst of his fifth lustre - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Heaven's lamps renew their lustre - James Russell Lowell "Absence"

Scatters her golden lustre far and wide - Philo "The Tribute"

Strew an alien luster on the air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

For increase of their luster - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The waves a lustrous path - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"

Beguiled by the moon's lunatic luster - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"


The lustrous silken veiled faces of the water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

The waves a lustrous path - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"


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