Potential Titles: Cheek

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Flushed cheeks & icicle muscle fiber - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

With furtive step and cheek of flame - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"

Whose very names would burn the cheek - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Paints the color back onto my cheeks - Taylor Byas "I begin the day thinking"

And kiss the cheek of the moon - Leonard Cohen "The Window"

Whose pallid cheek might win a fiend to spare - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Thinks all cheeks should burn and feel how tears can run - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"

Rest your cheek on the shoulder of the mountain - Chris Dombrowski "Tablet"

And flaunted your blazing cheek - Stephen Dunn "If Once In Silence"

The conscious cheek of truth - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

With your own starry cheek - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

From off the cheeks of the moon - Marsden Hartley "Fishmonger"

Kissed the cheek of death - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Kiss the cheek of my periphery - Jennifer Huang "Neighborhood Walk"

rosy cheeks plumped with rapture - Tanque R. Jones "Heaven"

Whose cheek bears pleasure's sleepless flush - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Enchantment lights Venus's cheek - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Crimes that pale the cheek to dream - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Bend beaten cheek to gravel - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Drew iron tears down Plato's cheek - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

Upon the cheek of sorrow - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Flushing valour's cheek with flame - Conde Benoist Pallen "The Raising of the Flag"

The cheek of the rain-starved air - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"

The jagged cheek of Gibraltar - Ariana Reines "Blue Palestine"

Tears rolled down a cheek of stone - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

Those little mermaid tears running down her cheeks - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"

Of all those tears that burnt your cheeks - Carmen Sylva "A Friend"

Anoint my neck and cheeks with espresso - Matthew Thorburn "This is What the City Smells Like?"

Cold as an archangel's cheek - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"


Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"


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