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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-05-02 07:48 pm

Potential Titles: Quail

Know well the scurrying quail - Duncan Anderson "Sport"

His heart of iron did not quail - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

Even terror to their malice quail - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"

That cause the eye to quail - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

The whistle of the quail repeat - Annie Fellows Johnston "Bob White"

Angels in the darkness quail - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Quails flitted out of a bamboo tree - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

When hope grows sick and courage quails - Don Marquis "Dickens"

A law pinned to a quail's wing - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"

As still as a startled quail - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

The call of quails across the desert - John Presland "The Deluge"

And the quail whistle about us - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

The mottled quail runs in the stubble - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

A gathering of golden quail waiting - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Summer 1945"

Visions crowd in a quailing host - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]


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