Potential Titles: Pear

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Each pear a phoenix or a phoenix nest - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

A word to be eaten with persimmon and pears - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Shaken pears came tumbling in showers upon the ground - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

And blunts the points of pears - H.D. "Garden"

These ripe pears are bitter to the taste - H.D. "The Gift"

Let the pears cling to the empty branch - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Suck the juice from one more pear - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"

Sunshine waxing the freckled curves of a pear - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"

When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers - Robert Frost "The Oven-Bird"

I plucked down Sirius like a pear - T.M. Kettle "The Lady of Life"

Had eyes for more than chestnuts and pears - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

Bartlett pears of romance - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Shadowing backyard pear trees - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

Rosy apple, lemon, or pear - "Rosy Apple, Lemon, or Pear"

Worms dapple pears in the orchard - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"


Pear-green and freckled sky - Richard Scott "Peridot"

A be-jeweled lair of pear-milk for the deer - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

The pixy-pears burn in yon hawthorn tree - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"


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