Potential Titles: Deck

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To deck the palace of our dreams - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Crowns fit to deck Apollo's brows - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

His throne's the war-ship's lofty deck - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

The break of day that wears a shining dew decked diadem - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

You exist in a stacked deck - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"

Fetch her stars to deck her hair - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Deck'd out with stars and colors gay - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

Decked with pearls and paved with sapphires - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Now decks the lawns of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "The Grass in Madison Square"

And orchids deck the tree tops - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

Deck you with my jewelled rhyme - Theodore Maynard "Silence"

Stolen gems that decked the Crown - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Beauty deck the Spring in flowers - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Decked my hall and spread my board - Dora Sigerson Shorter "At Christmas Time"

Stars to deck my hair - Winifred Welles "Exile"

To deck her shrine with bays - Helen Maria Williams "To Sensibility"


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