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And land the glistening captures of the night - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Glistens with the dew of money - Carmen Gimenez "All Money Is a Matter of Belief"

A shivering giant in its glistening cloak of white - Ellyn Hall "Bringing home the holly" [Laugh and Play, no date, Project Gutenberg]

Lush petals and glistening thorns - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser Braided Creek 

The beheaded tulips glisten with rain - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Bamboo glistening at heart with frost - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-chia" transl. by David Hinton

A thousand rain-drops glisten - A.A.I. "An April Day"

Where her silver slippers glisten - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Icicle"

When the early dewdrops glisten - J.I.L. "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.117-v.III, 27 March 1886]

His fingertips glistened with frost - Frank O'Hara "Augustus"

A thousand starlets glisten in the robe of night - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

And glisten round him in a silver blaze - Philo "The Tribute"

Against the glistening odds of the frost - Lynn Powell "Aubade for the Muse"

Who parted waters with a glistening tusk - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

Love to his singer held a glistening leaf - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "Sonnet LIX: Love's Last Gift"

Sea-horses glisten in summer - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Glistening inside raindrops or teardrops - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

Glistening in the continuous rain of meteorites - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"

Into the glistening mittens of the same clouds - Charles Wright "Ancient of Days"


Dewdrops glistering in falsehood's gardens - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Glistering saffron loved of the bees - Frederic Manning "The Faun"


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