Potential Titles: Toad

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The cold snail and crawling toad unseen - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

Toads and serpents of most deadly kind - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Put little faith in the toad's necromancy - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Brother to the owl and toad - Willa Cather "The Poor Minstrel"

The fabled poison of the toad - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Circumstances in which toads are useful as diamonds - Theodora Goss "Diamonds and Toads"

The dark is filling with toads - Conrad Hilberry "Toads"

Squalid toads at dusk were seen - Dr. Jenner (1810) "Signs of Rain" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15, June 30, 1832]

The jewel in the toad's brown head - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Where the slow toads sat brooding - D.H. Lawrence "Sicilian Cyclamens"

A toad eternally prisoned in stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"

Whose truths are bloated toads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Imaginary gardens with real toads in them - Marianne Moore "Poetry"

Ogres, toads, and nursery rhymes - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"

As toads mourned beneath the hemlock - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"


The tree-toad trilled his dream - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"


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