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Bedeck.


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

The flowers that deck the verdant knoll - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]

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....]"

Shining raiment meet to deck enchantments and imaginings - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

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"

And deck their season to its close - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

His brow deckt with murder for a wreath - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

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"

A deck of cards shuffled by a pro - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

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

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

The dreary night hath stars to deck the heaven - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]

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"

Decked his breast with rosemary - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]

Stars to deck my hair - Winifred Welles "Exile"

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


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