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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-05 05:17 pm

Potential Titles: Blush

Stole the simple blush of my desire - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"

The ash's berry clusters not quite blushing - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Blush 'neath the sunset like rosy wine - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

Glowing suns mature with blushing vine - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

A bloom as of blush roses - Jean Ingelow "Songs with Preludes: Wedlock"

Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"

As roses slowly blush a deeper color - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Glaciers in the dawn's blush glow - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Alpine Glacier" transl. by John Pollen

Quick as blushes start - George Marion McClellan "In the Heart of a Rose"

Burning blushes that unbidden rise - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]

Drowning Orion in blush - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"

Blush of a Peri that smiles in a dream - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Silver tongues of waters where the willows blush - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"

And clovers hang their blushing heads - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Kissing apples till they blush - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"

And the peaches had stolen blushes - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]



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