Potential Titles: Palm (tree)

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Some usages of 'palm' are ambiguous as to whether the tree or the body part is meant. I suggest checking both posts. Palm (body part).


Reading the secret of drought on the palms - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

Palm trees pinned against a wall - Mary Jo Bang "A Room in Cleopatra's Palace"

Whose magnetic palms bring dreams - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of the Poor" transl. not credited

Cry of the palms and the purple moons - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Victory comes with a palm in her hand - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

The woman with spring water palms - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"

The patient palm tree watching - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

The palm trees chose victory or death - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Palm fronds crossed into the stars - Melissa Range "First South"

The bronze dusk of imperial palms - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"


Take no more solace from the palm-girt wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"


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