Potential Titles: Maid/Maiden

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Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"

An anointed queen amid her maids - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

Mistook the maid for his own Psyche - "The Belles of Williamsburg"

To her maidens the light dance is dear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"

My island is full of maiden ghosts - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"

And my seven maidens as seven wolves - "The Enchanted Maiden" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Lined with the forgotten ashes of scullery maids - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"

Only the maidens question not - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. I" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Where Nereid maids about the sea-god throng - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

The maiden queen of recreant dreams - Joseph R. Wilson "Dreams"


The handmaidens of circumstance - Anthony Butts "Triptych"

The handmaids of Disaster - Fu Hsuan "A Gentle Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)


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