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Full of drag queens & revolutionaries - Diane di Prima "City Lights 1961"


Echo with an anthem to its queen - W.E.A. "The Buried Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Never a better the Queen might wear - "Agnes and the Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Give a queenly air to this crimson robe of mine - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"

An anointed queen amid her maids - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

Bade the world their lofty queen obey - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

More queenly than all empresses - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Attends Night's lovely queen - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Queen of desperate alarms - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Pale Queen of the silent night - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

The caravan that bore our queen to the courts of Solomon - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

Slaked the whirlpool mouths of our queen - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra SeƱora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Lay ransom to this queen of arts - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Of bright Queens vanished - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

On the throne a queen may come to claim - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

When the rose is queen - Arthur Colton "Martial to Pliny"

A queen of yellow leaves - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"

When Summer on the earth was queen - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Wrought by a Titan's sombre queen - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

Queen of beauty and of grace and precious worth - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The primrose queen lights her pale lamps - Geoffrey Dearmer "May-June"

To Artemis my Queen - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

The sweet star of your queen - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Queen of all power - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

A queen astride a lion - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

My queen cloaked in charm - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

What queenly resplendence of empire - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Grandeurs of Mary"

A circle of queens chattering - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"

Up to the end of the great QUEEN'S reign - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

Their Queen's approach declare - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Something a queen could not buy - Tom Hall "The Kiss"

But not like Sheba's queen - Frances Ridley Havergal "Coming to the King"

Crowned queen above the lilies - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

The Queen she sent to look for me - A.E. Housman "Last Poems V: Grenadier"

Mourning her dreams in queenly state - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Clock's Song"

Queen of moods and shadows - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

A queen that in a garden of glory walks - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"

Queen Luck, that rules the world - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

Fit rosary for a queen - James Russell Lowell "In a Copy of Omar Khayyam"

Queen whom my tides obey - James Russell Lowell "Under the October Maples"

Chateaus where mammoth Queens once ruled - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

Queen of smiles and charms - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Queen in all harbours - John Masefield "Ships"

Two lovely Queens divided - Theodore Maynard "John Redmond"

Held dead Queens' secret jewels - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"

Captor and lure and queen - Louis J. McQuilland "The House of the Strange Woman"

The Sabbath queen blessed my candles - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine

The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"

The Queen of the world that is Nero's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"

Kings and queens the color of amaranth - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly

Queens from a realm of subterranean copper - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

No queen of martial might - Shaemas OSheel "Roma Mater Sempaeterna"

Beyond the pride of any earthly queen - John Oxenham "Seeds"

Not queens, but ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Cold queen among the dead - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

Fit shrines for wisdom's queen - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Which, a century ago, was the Queen of metaphors - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

When the queen ascended into view - Ariana Reines "The Rose"

Was courted by the Queen of night - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Ere she stood before the queen Persephone - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

The queen of impossible tasks - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"

True homage to his Queen - Frederick George Scott "Love Slighted"

Herself a queen of song - Robert W. Service "Music in the Bush"

Queens of the Dreams, and Kings of the Shadows - Adi K. Sett "Roshanara"

the goblin queen hosts a feast of oil - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

The golden queens of planets long forgot - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat in Pace"

Queen of the loom and spinning wheel - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"

I the Queen of crowding vagabonds - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

Bade adieu to each golden-hearted queen - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

Grief a gorgeous, queenly thing - Winifred Welles "Exile"

Bathes like a queen in the soil - "Wildlife Encounter"

The maiden queen of recreant dreams - Joseph R. Wilson "Dreams"

Queen of a land of terror - Joseph R. Wilson "Dreams"

The fierce queen who with a serpent died - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"


In her fairy-queen pride - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"


When Queen Ashtaroth beat at her lamp and fell - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"


The Queen-Moon is on her throne - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"


I began as the Queen of Hearts - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"


Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"


Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"


The wand that queen Titania wields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"


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