Potential Titles: Honey

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Heavy as honeyed pulses beat - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

To squeeze a drop of venom or of honey - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"

Weave the bees, stitch them to their honey - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

A honey moonlight hovered far above - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

What thought of honey flows - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXIX: Apprehension" transl. by Sir John Bowring

For food they gave him honey sweet - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring

More sweet than amber honey - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

As quivers a humbird his honey to drink - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

As if honey was a sound - Atticus "Magic in Youth"

Asking for honey to crystallize - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"

Astral honey and blossoms of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"

Nature's honeyed chalice - Cora C. Bass "The Worker Bee"

A voice in the eternal honey - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"

A cobwebbed, yellow pot of honey - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Eros, lord of the honey and flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Roll your hands in the honey of life - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

My roots still sip the honeyed earth - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"

Fills me like honeyed words - Sue Budin "Ripe Fruit"

The duvet built in honey - CM Burroughs "The Wait"

The honey I swallow to soothe the vocal cords - Regie Cabico "Morning After the Election"

The glimmer of the honey dew - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Cherry Valley"

Honey cakes in tombs wisteria-hung - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

Wrapt in wealth of honeyed dreams - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"

Sweeter thy honey lips - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"

Sunk in honeyed sleep - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"

and honey was heaped upon my head - Lucille Clifton "beloved"

In the summer of sage and honey - Erin Rose Coffin "Remembering Our First Parties"

With balm and honey to restore - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Sweet cakes and honey and wine - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Honey and salt - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

Honey and amber flecked each leaf - H.D. "The Gift"

A honeyed stab on the air - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

The honey of courtly hypocrisy - Julia de Burgos "To Julia de Burgos" transl. by Grace Schulman

Homesick for steadfast honey - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life III"

In the heart of the honeyed dark - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"

One part honey, one part curse - Cornelius Eady "Miss Look's Dream (Miss Look)"

Has hived the honey of all human wit - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]

Columbine with horn of honey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"

That bubble in the honey pot - Heid E. Erdich "Nesting Dolls"

In the pour of honeyed sun - Heid E. Erdich "Own Your Own: The Papergirl"

Was there honey on his finger? - Nava EtShalom "Philtrum"

One kiss from her honey mouth - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"

Of October, honey, and myrrh - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Open to honeyed light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

The mountains bread and honey - Colin Francis "Tony O"

Throwing the sea's harvest up like honey - "From the Vision of Mac Conglinne" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Overladen with the honey of summer - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

A honey on the wormwood world - Louis Golding "Slum Evening"

More pleasant than honey - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Its daughters' honeyed secrets - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

Or honey void of sting - Hafiz "The Divan XXXI" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Glazed with the honey of their name - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

And enter honeyed grapefruit time - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

A drop or two of honey around the top - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

The budding trees all honey sweet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Farewell"

Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Holding cups of honey - Florence Hoatson "Blossoms"

Spilling out the honey - Norah M. Holland "To Audrey, Aged Four"

Honey mixed with liquid fire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"

A honey mist on a day of frost - Douglas Hyde "The Cooleen"

Shaking out honey, treading perfume - Jean Ingelow "Divided"

With a paste of cloves and wild honey - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Some dawn infused with honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "On Becoming River Rat, Fat-Tongued and/or Finding Your Once Pretty Body at the Park, Full of Holes"

Alcohol as sweet as honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "When Miss Lucy Sings"

Arrows dipped in honey, thrice distilled - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Archers"

From thy lips the honeyed wine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

Rarer than soft honey cells - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Nails suspended in a jar of honey - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Dying honey and lemon rind - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

Choice honey for a favoured youth - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Breaks apart like honey in the mouth - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

Dragged through dirt and honey and pine - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 3"

The honey from forests of flowers - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"

Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Could not honey my clay - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

No word more bitter than sweet honey - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

As lurks a bitter sting in honeyed words - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The usury of honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

A bouquet of myrrh, viper flesh, & honey - Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung "from 'Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters'"

Golden honey daubed on the bread of the ordinary - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"

Its dear perilous honey - Richard Le Gallienne "Corydon's Farewell to His Pipe"

Moon of the wild wild honey - Richard Le Gallienne "To My Wife, Mildred"

The milk of earth, the honey of dust - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

As we pour honey, conjuring the invisible bees - Joseph O. Legaspi "Raspberries"

Honey in the hearts of gourds - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

With her crystal wings, and her honey heart - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

To carry honey to harvest - Audre Lorde "Today Is Not the Day"

The wild white honey of your words - Amy Lowell "Carrefour"

Like red wine and honey - Amy Lowell "A Decade"

Than honey bees garner in dream - James Russell Lowell "Agro-Dolce"

All of honey and milk the air is - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Cooling honey to stone - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"

A gathering of pollen, a dance of honey - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"

Honey buried underneath my feet - John Masefield "Biography"

The secret honey of the Cliff - Theodore Maynard "The Glory of the Oriflamme"

Your hands that are sweeter than honey - Theodore Maynard "The Joy of the World"

Palette of honeyed ochre - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Carry their cold wild honey - Alice Meynell "The Rainy Summer"

Bring me honey and a key - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

Shall unseal its honeyed story - Susanna Moodie "The Maple-Tree"

A yoke of honey in a glass of cooling milk - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

That light where honey tightens - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The bee that every honey sips - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"

The honey that bears devour - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

To suck honey from the sunlight - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions"

The promise of honey, the symbol for uranium - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

All the honey of one day - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid

In the isles of bread and honey - Pablo Neruda "Letter on the Road" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

A long day the color of honey and blue - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew

Whose honey nourished the almond trees - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Purple honey woven fiber by fiber - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In the pure air of honeyed days - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Honey in the belly of pale melons - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

To ask more from honey - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid

Raisins of honey and salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

A honey that measured the earth - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A honeyed image is still sweet - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

A hush of paprika and burnt honey - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Wrap"

Honey that the brown bees brew - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Wild honey in the thyme - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

Found your shoe full of honey - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"

Close to the skim of honey - Mary Oliver "How Everything Adores Being Alive"

Honey from the lips of David - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"

Under the hot honey sun - Julie Paschkis "Rainbow"

So the edges of your honey jars rattle - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Tasting honey on my teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

No we send hampers of honey - "A Poet's Valentine" (parody of Swinburne's "The Creation of Man")

Treads the ripened honey of clover heads - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Fed them honey of his heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

And honey served on thorns - Lola Ridge "To the American People"

Drained the wild honey of their youth - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

A rose has thorns as well as honey - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"

The drone of dreams of honey - Carl Sandburg "In Tall Grass"

But love can gather the sweetest honey - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"

All summer's hoarded honey - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"

Rivers pour forth a stream of honey - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer

There goes my honey and fog - Brenda Shaughnessy "Identity & Community (There is no 'I' in 'Sea')"

The golden field of frozen honey clover - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"

Fermented honey with spices dashed - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Honeyed whispers composed millennia ago - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Honey is sweetness and fear - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Honey from illusion's stinging hive - George Sterling "A Character"

Black as bee stripes with honey in my eyes - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Strong from newer honey - L.A.G. Strong "In the Garden"

Brine and honey in one bed - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"

A dose of brilliant honey - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"

Mixed into me as honey in wine - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Collecting the tax on honey and wax - John B. Tabb "The Tax-Gatherer"

Sour the boiling honey - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Offered honey but arrived with too much grief - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Her breath of honey and spice - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"

Throwing the sea's harvest up like honey - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

A blade of honey between our shadows - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"

The honeyed music of her tongue - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Dribbles his honey in straw - Charles William Wallace "Browning"

Rejoice to give them honey - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"

My honey is not always sweet - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"

Drinking honey of the night's flowers - Francis Brett Young "Moths"


Such a breathless honey-feel of bliss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

And a crown of honey-flowers - H.D. "Holy Satyr"

This honey-glanded pitcher plant - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 11"

Just before they crawl into a honey-hungry sleep - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Our honeymoon hangs in the sky - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"

With honeymoons in their bloodstreams - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"

My honey-mouth is full of froth - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Honey-mouthed and persistent - C. Dale Young "Bloodline"

Melt into a faintly honey-scented mist - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"

The honey-seeking, golden-banded - H.D. "Orchard"

Honey-stained by time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Only a honey-thick stain - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Only a honey-thick stain - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

Fed with poison-honey - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Malevolent"

One more sweet-as-honey answer - Mary Oliver "Something"


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Milk and Honey


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