Potential Titles: Dregs

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The alchemy that transmutes the dregs to elixir - Clarence Butler "We Two" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Coffee with sand for dregs - Lewis Carroll "A Sea Dirge"

The dregs of our nightmares - Chris Dombrowski "Get Up, John"

The dregs of days that follow - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

Drained the galled dregs of the draught she offered - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Come drink the dregs with me - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Crowding in the dregs of doom - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

When once the dregs are emptied - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

As if the dregs were bitter - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

The dregs within its crystal hours - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

Drowned within the lurid dregs - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"


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