Potential Titles: Nightshade

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


The nightshade's dew in venomed drops - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"

Nightshade tucked neatly in his buttonhole - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

The pheasant's beak full of nightshade - Chris Dombrowski "Hunting All Day beneath the Long Night Moon"

Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"

Nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Nightshade all, with gloomy cypress wove - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Oh, sunny love!"

Nightshade of the soul - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

Purple wreaths of mournful nightshade - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Oh! that I were a fairy sprite, to wander]"

Searched by the nightshade's root - James Russell Lowell "The Black Preacher"

Night-shade's ugly blue and spotted henbane shall grow up - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Nightshade in terror of being shook - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Where the nightshade trumpets cry slow - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Nightshade would caress and kill me - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"


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