Potential Titles: Alight/Alit

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From her griffin steed alights - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Alight on the altar of making - Paola Bruni "The Lesson"

To alight upon the wind-warped upland thorn - Thomas Hardy "Afterwards"

With cloven logs to keep alight - Thomas Hardy "The Wood Fire"

The beacons are always alight - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley

That sets the stream alight with burn and glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "kingfisher"

Alight upon this beggar leaf - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

Setting the stars alight to wonder at the moon - James Stephens "The Shell"

Alights on the cross of the wooden clothesline - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"


A moth alit on the sun-dial's face - Arthur Stringer "I Sat in the Sunlight"


Light.

Lit.


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