Potential Titles: Venom

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Less envenomed than the mouth of Truth - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

A century hence will envenom a lover - Edward Dowden "Unuttered"


In simulated venom crushed - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

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

Like Asrael's venomed dart - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

The nightshade's dew in venomed drops - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"

The precious venom in my veins - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Silence carries its own venom - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

Its own venom and many false antidotes - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

In the venomed yew tree - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

For the venom that they carry - Thomas Dunn English "Jack, the Regular" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

Her venom strikes like the storm - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Venomed with the gall of scorn - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

With filthy venom in the bite - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Poured out for them the venomed draught - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Sandalwood venom in my scattered mouth - Wendy Guerra "Red" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Venom in the scented flower - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The venom pours through every swollen vein - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Feels the cursed venom through his life-blood flow - M.J. "The Sting of a Serpent" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]

Venomed arrows from a mighty bow - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

To hide the cankering venom - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Receiving the wound and the venom in one - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

The venomed shafts of slander - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The lethal dose of wasp venom - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Stabbed me with their venomed darts - Bernard M'Evoy "A Photograph in a Shop Window"

Implant their poisonous venom - "The Misanthrope"

Scorpions with crime and venom - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

There is no antidote for its venom - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"

Spread wide its venom'd pow'r - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"

Whose twin mouths gape with venom & desire - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

A venomed breeze exhales them - Ann K. Schwader "Frost Ghosts"

A shattered innocence consoled by venom - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

Envy with her venomed dart - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"

In thy veins a scarlet venom - George Sterling "The Feast"

Whose scarlet venom crawls - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"


Which turns a sudden venomous asp - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Of hell-fire, of the venomous flame - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"


A venom-fanged hydra prowls my chest - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"


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