Potential Titles: Lightly

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Who lightly turn from History's page - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Straw sandals dancing lightly on the cobbles - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Tread lightly where he lies - Martin Armstrong "On a Little Bird"

Lightly threaded with nimble feet - Laurence Binyon "The Little Dancers"

Stars powdered lightly with blue - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

To let the heart sleep lightly - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

In pride half scorned and lightly prized - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

The shadow I had carried lightly - Shane McCrae "America Gives Its Blackness Back to Me"

And lightly dare the dangerous deep - Lydia H. Sigourney "To a Land Bird at Sea" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]

Lightly threaded with stars - Sara Teasdale "Afterwards"

Leaves the cobweb lightly threaded with stars - Sara Teasdale "Dew"

Soars lightly like a startled swan - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Skim lightly over foaming reefs - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "On the Tower" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Think not lightly of its knell - John Elwin Wrench "A few lines against the opening of the Crystal Palace on the Sabbath day"


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