Potential Titles: Odor

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A green growing odour seeping up through the floor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

The ghosts of long-dead odours creep - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited

An odor of lavender, an odor of gold - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

Windy odors light as thistledown - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

In the abyss of odor and rustle at my back - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

New-born odors on the sighing breeze - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

The house of corrupt odors - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Odours intoxicant blowing - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen

The odor of sharp solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly

What is the odor of nothing - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"

An odor the color of bones - Frank Stanford "Politicians"

Steal the odors of the sleeping flowers - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

The odor of flowers that reaches a scream - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]


The breeze comes odorous and bright - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson


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