Potential Titles: Droop

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Drooping eyes of jasmine-flowers - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Who droops in gloom beyond the wall - Auguste Angellier "Resignation" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Leaving the flower to droop unseen - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

Faithful as dew to the drooping flowers - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Among her drooping marigolds - David Gray "Sonnet"

Oat-sheaves drooping in the western sun - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Teach my drooping hope to live - Fanny Kemble "Absence"

Mint droops purple-tipped with frost - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

When the dusk droops dark - Clinton Scollard "Dusk at Sea"

Milton sings with drooping spheres about him - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"

But droops and dies before the storm - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]

Glowing amaranth droops upon its stalk - Helen Hay Whitney "Dear Dead Women"


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