Potential Titles: Drunk

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Idea drunk in the elegant gloom - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"

Drunk with Death's elixir - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of the Poor" transl. not credited

In drunken pride of youth - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"

The sun had drunk the dew - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"

Foxes drunk on rotten brambles - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Smile crooked in drunk light - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

To be drunk among whispers - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Once drunk with blood - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"

Drunk with the wine of the world - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Drunk with heaven's tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Drunk on May-time revelations - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

Drunk on honey-dew and violet's breath - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Drunkenness steaming in colours - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

Drunk with old wine of love - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"

Drunken pirates in a silent film - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

A mouse drunk on plum wine - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Drunk with pines and long kisses - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin

Drunk from the stars - Hoa Nguyen "Red She Broke the Cup"

Stumbling drunk through the subway turnstile - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Shahjahan's drunk elephants are marching - Salik Shah "Field Notes"

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIX"

The drunken birds in the belladonna - Frank Stanford "My Day Is Over"

Have drunken of Lethe at length - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"

Whose lips have drunken the wine of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Drunk with the great human battle of wills - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

The white and drunken pallet of memories - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver


The gold, unlaced, dew-drunken daffodils - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Dew-drunken daffodils shouting the dawn - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Only to return moondrunk, bramble-laden - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"


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