somethingdarker | Feb. 5th, 2010

Feb. 5th, 2010

( Blare )

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Armed like an angel, blazoned like a king - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

An empress, in her blazonry of beauty - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

O'erlaid with vermilion, and blazoned with gold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

And blazoned glories spread - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"

March by in motley blazonry - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

Blazon me with jeweled insignia - Amy Lowell "Apology"

Blazoning his face above the mountains - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

In living stars and blazoned bands - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

Upon the emblazoned leaf of fame - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Let me not die forever when I'm laid]"

Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Emblazoned with extinction's bleak device - Ann K. Schwader "Climate of Fear"

Knight of battered and unblazoned arms - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

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( Bluebell )

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( Bluebird )

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( Bleach )

White as bone-bleached sun - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"

Naked rents and wind-bleached jags - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

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Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"

And hell's black bloodhounds mark - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Launched your bloodhounds on the main - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Heartbreak like a bloodhound - Carl Phillips "Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us"

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( Blameless )

Blame.

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( Blood Red )

Blood.

Red.

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All the blusterings of Hell - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"

The breeze from the bluebottle's blustering - John Bennett "To Marie"

Safe from the blustering storms of night - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]

While blusters vex the yew and vane - Thomas Hardy "A Drizzling Easter Morning"

Such scurrying of blow and bluster out - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"

When southern winds bluster - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Trapped between winds and false bluster - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 5" transl. by Katherine Silver

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( Bliss )

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( Blame )

Blameless.

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Blasphemed against their gods of clay - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

And blaspheme worshipping still - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

( Blasphemous )

( Blasphemy )

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( Blind )

Above me the day-blind stars waiting - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Half-blinded by its golden rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

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( Blink )

Unblinking in the sun of another day - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

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( Blaze )

( Ablaze )

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The clatter of chalk against blackboard - George A. Baker "After the German"

The buzzing of the blackboard pontificating - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"

On the blackboard of their souls - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

The blackboard chalked with crosses - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Blackboard we scrawled our wishes on - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"

Black.

Board.

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It's not always clear whether a snippet intends the plural of the color versus the musical genre. I'll make a judgment call and may be wrong because I've forgotten the context and don't have easy access to check.

( Blues (music) )

Blue [color].

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( Bloodless )

Blood.

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( Blank )

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( Bleak )

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( Blackberry )

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( Blackbird )

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( Blanket )

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( Bled/Bleed )

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( Blithe )

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November blew forth its bleared airs - Thomas Hardy "On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born"

( Blur )

Lightning through tear-blurred pages - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

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( Blush )

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( Blight )

The soul-blight of a nation - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"

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( Bless )

Blessed sunshine, and thrice-blessed rain - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Unblessed.

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( Black )

( Blacken )

( Blacker )

Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born - John Milton "L'Allegro"

And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

( Blackness )

Black and White.

Blackberry.

Blackbird.

Black-blooded as the oil plumes - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Sung in Dirt"

Blackboard.

Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"

The pixilated arcs of a black box - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Black Hole.

( Black Ice )

Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Progress is a blacklist - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"

Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

( Blackout )

The green-skinned, black-skinned garden of Osiris - Bruce Smith "Garden"

In a silence of vacuumed, black-space sky - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

The span of the black-starred zone - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

In the blueblack cold - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"

Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Still chased his jet-black butterflies - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

Seed-black of the waiting heart - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

The yellow-black dance of the tiger - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

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( Blue )

Bluebell.

Bluebird.

Watching the waves eat back the blueblack dunes - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

A glimpse of such blue-eyed hate - Carol Muske-Dukes "Grief Dream"

The blue-flowers crown of ecstasy - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"

Blue-forked flowers of lightning - Lola Ridge "After Storm"

From a billion blue-gold caverns of air - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

( Blue-Grey/Grey-Blue )

Bluejay.

Unable to outrun blue-lipped destiny - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"

Blueprint.

Blues.

Outtop the blue-ribbed sky - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"

The wind bundles itself into bluish cloud - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound

( Dark Blue )

Under a sky fast-blue with change - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"

Navy blue around a fake significance - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"

Precise in the panic-blue air - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"

Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"

The silver-blue of incense mist - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Malvern: July 23rd, 1906"

The whiteblue well of constant water- Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"

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( Black Hole )

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( Bloodstain )

Blood.

Stain.

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( Blot )

Pardoned our past-blotted pages - George Blackstone Field "The Rodman's Dream"

What Fate's unblotted page display'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

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( Blend/Blent )

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( Bloom )

Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"

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( Blossom )

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( Blister )

( Blood )

Black-blooded as the oil plumes - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Sung in Dirt"

( Bloodbath )

Bureaucracy and blood-borne grudge - Linda Gregerson "Cranes on the Seashore"

Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"

Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"

Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

In a bloodflow motion - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

And blood-frosted cake - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

The blood-grapes drip for you drinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Bloodless.

Where bloodlines and rivers are woven together - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Carry a bloodmap for a lost country - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"

Through which aspires the blood-metal of stars - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"

Blood-Red.

Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"

Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

Bent on bullets and bloodshed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"

( Bloodshot )

The oil and the blood-smeared cobalt - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

The demons climbed from the blood-soaked soil - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

A blood-spot on the page of time - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

Bloodstain.

Bloodstream

Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

( Cold-Blood )

( Life-Blood )

Nothing in nature now remains unblooded - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas

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( Blindfold )

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( Blizzard )

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( Blunt )

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( Black and White )

Black.

White.

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( Blade )

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( Bloodstream )

Blood.

Stream.

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( Blast )

Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

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( Blow/Blew )

Tomorrows brighter than candle-blown - P. H. Low "Ode"

The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

A far-blown breath of snows - Albion Fellows Bacon "Lost"

( Full-blown )

Glassblowing and fishing nets and the tide - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

Its half-blown crimson to eclipse - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"

By bitter winds o'erblown - Meredith Nicholson "Where Love Was Not"

Walking alone through the storm-blown - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

War's trumpet sleeps unblown - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"

Eternity an unblown saxophone - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Wind-Blown.

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Revealing blueprints of the clouds - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Their blueprint drawn for reascending - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"

A blueprint unfolds - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"

Blueprint of urban catastrophe - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Created the blueprint for our futures - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"

Executing the blueprints of resistance - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

A blueprint of history in my head - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"

Blue.

Print.

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