Potential Titles: Taste
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somethingdarkerTaste eternity on the fingertips of this day - Linda Addison "Evolving"
A tiger with a taste for human suffering - Kim Addonizio "This Too Shall Pass"
Arrives with a fine taste of sulfur - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
You'll taste my honey and my bread - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
A reason his love tastes bitter - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"
The dark tastes of salt and oranges - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Taste the edge of August - Joseph Auslander "In Envy of Cows"
Tasting the burnt sun, the black sea - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
While you tasted buttercups - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
Tastes the day's first plasma of leaf - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
Blood with the same taste as mine - Jan Beatty "Report from the Skinhouse"
The harsh taste of white poppies - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Taste the elegant tortures of Despair - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
Who tasted the reddest fruit on that forbidden tree - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Lose the taste of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
Tastes like hope, memory, forgiveness - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
And taste a stain like blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
A sorrow on the air I taste but cannot name - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Let me taste it whole - Sue Budin "Mouth"
Held a golden cup and tasted rust - Witter Bynner "The New World III"
To taste our bitterest woe - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
Tasting the years ahead of me - Tina Chang "Birth"
A coppery taste of salvage - Tina Chang "Lion"
Adjust the various seasonings to taste - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
have learned the taste of blood - Lucille Clifton "enemies"
Given up as soon as tasted - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."
With every emblem of corrupted Taste - William Combe "The First of April"
But nothing tames our taste - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Eaten by beasts who've never tasted honey - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Tasting the secret letters of your history - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
First tasted under Apollo's lips - H.D. "Evadne"
These ripe pears are bitter to the taste - H.D. "The Gift"
Better to taste of frost - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"
The bitter taste of your commanding - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Tastes blood from imaginary wounds - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"
And never taste death's woe - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"
Malformed figs taste of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Tasted the immortals' bread - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Tastes the same as ink - Heid E. Erdich "In the Belly"
Neither knowing the taste of exile - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"
Taste the bitter draught of woe - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The ashy taste of lamentation - Andrew Feld "Abstract for a Burning City"
Tasting like amnesia - Andrew Feld "Best and Only"
I know the taste of her poisoned bread - Beulah Field "Branded"
For the taste of freedom to flood your famished mouth - Mina Florea "Remember"
Bees and butterflies tasting the fruits - "The Fox and the Geese"
From what I've tasted of desire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
The taste of cold July - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
The tide of joy they never tasted - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For the taste of our name - Jenny George "I Love You"
A joke of doubtful taste - W.S. Gilbert "General John"
Taste my own memories - Nikita Gill "Sorcery"
No taste more bitter nor truer - Dana Gioia "Seaward"
Maybe that's what nothing tastes like - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"
Taste like remembering and forgetting - Rae Gouirand "Stanzas to Those Just Arriving"
Tastes many nameless hours - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
Tasted the bittersweet roots of this crazy world - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Taste the blackberry thorn - francine j. harris "feeder"
Licks its wounds that taste of iodine - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
The taste of happiness in the throat - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Who had tasted the sweetness of air - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"
Never knew this fruit until I tasted it - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
Not knowing the taste of grief - Hsin Ch'i-chi "[When I Was Young]" transl. by Burton Watson
I taste a strange apocalypse - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"
Taste the whirling of all things visible - Mark Irwin "And Now"
Let me stay and taste undying Youth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
forked tongue out tasting his own aimless circles - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
you take & taste my acquired time - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
A taste of helium in the veins - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister"
when the taste of salt sticks for days - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
Tasted empathy and paid it forward - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Ask for a taste of luck - Kassia "Selected Epigrams" transl. from Byzantine Greek by Patrick Diehl
Tastes like ash going down - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Still tasting of small poisons - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"
Of the Well of Life to taste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Not even April's taste is sweet - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
Wine more bitter than the taste of gall - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Could taste him in the dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Find clues in the taste of breadfruit - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
How they tasted of mirrors - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"
Let the fruit taste of sweetness and dust - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
And taste the springs of life - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Tasting of acid flame and apple wine - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Makes my daily soup taste sour - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"
Makes my daily bread taste salt - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"
Grudge him the liquor he's tasted - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
So decided a taste for that kind of thing - Henry S. Leigh "Wanted, a Singer"
Knew the taste of that ending - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The tongue taste of natural color - Ada Limon "Gratitude in Spite of Oneself"
That only by reflection tastes of sun - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"
Taste the spurn of parting Fortune's heel - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Tasters of humble human wines - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
The way the night tastes - W.S. Merwin "Blueberries After Dark"
Drink to know how jewels taste - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The stars will taste of what you find tempting - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Tastes the wide seas of death - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
While I tasted the sights of the barren country - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
Taste of cooled songs - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Where you taste every horizon - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Coated in sauces I've never tasted - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Even though it always tastes bitter - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
Taste the bitter apple - Marilyn Nelson "Bitter Apple"
Keep this taste of shadow - Pablo Neruda "Landscape After a Battle" translated by Richard Schaaf
The taste of thin gold shielding cold brass - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Taste buds adjusting to the taste of hunger - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.56
A marriage of balance and taste - Grace Nichols "O Tea"
Taste the bitter juice of roses - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"
How does one taste the moon? - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author
If peace was something we could taste - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"
Were tasted by the prophets - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
To make so many taste sorrow - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Taste the draught of bitterness anew - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
Only tastes of earth and guilt - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
Tasting honey on my teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
To taste the salt of exertion - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
The bodies of fruit we never tasted - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"
Tasted midnights and dawns, delayed twilight - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
Tasting the bitter syllables of their history - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Great Migration"
Her tea tastes more like dust every day - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Poisons impregnate, in whose taste is death - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Appearances" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
My fingers knew taste before the orange - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
To taste what his veins had hidden - Charles Rafferty "The Man Who Bled Wine"
Faith tastes the bread of God - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
To taste the wells of sleep - Theodore H. Rand "Under the Beeches"
To taste of Bacchus' blessings - Thomas Randolph "To Master Anthony Stafford"
Just a memory of taste - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
An oyster on my tongue searches for the taste of ocean - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Tasting of its bronze and iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Tasting the turbulent fury of living - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
That once have tasted the fairy banquet's bliss - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
Adorned by Art's surpassing taste - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
The fruit whose taste is ash - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"
And tastes the fountain unutterably deep - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
That dark taste still lingers in the mouth - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Taste this minute of eternity - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Taste one sip of an answer - Rumi "Who Says Words with My Mouth?" transl. by Coleman Barks
To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
Taste the gladness of his strawberry ice cream - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"
Our souls shall taste nirvana in such sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"
To drink the air and taste the sun - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"
Taste of the rest that the weary crave - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
The bitter taste ensuing on the sweet - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
For ragged fancies to pluck and taste - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"
Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Tasted of sweets that never knew alloy - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
With love that tastes like starving to death - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Sickness, scorn, and bitterness to taste - Sherard Vines "Permission"
Must learn the taste of truth - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
Learns everything by taste - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Pattern Recognition"
To taste in this paradise of jet - Adolf Wolff "Chiaroscuro"
The same odd taste of bitterness and terror - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Lullaby"
And tasted bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"
Stirring the bitter taste of solitude - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Truth becomes a tasty bait - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
To consider the aftertaste of bark - Deborah Ruddell "The Woodpecker"
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Delight to spice the tasteless years - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"
To snatch the untasted cup away - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
Where some joy untasted yet awaits - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
The burden of untasted death - Hazel Hall "Flash"
The untasted bait that bribed my soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
But all untasted stood the hoard - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
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A tiger with a taste for human suffering - Kim Addonizio "This Too Shall Pass"
Arrives with a fine taste of sulfur - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
You'll taste my honey and my bread - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
A reason his love tastes bitter - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"
The dark tastes of salt and oranges - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Taste the edge of August - Joseph Auslander "In Envy of Cows"
Tasting the burnt sun, the black sea - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
While you tasted buttercups - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
Tastes the day's first plasma of leaf - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
Blood with the same taste as mine - Jan Beatty "Report from the Skinhouse"
The harsh taste of white poppies - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Taste the elegant tortures of Despair - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"
Who tasted the reddest fruit on that forbidden tree - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Lose the taste of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
Tastes like hope, memory, forgiveness - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
And taste a stain like blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
A sorrow on the air I taste but cannot name - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Let me taste it whole - Sue Budin "Mouth"
Held a golden cup and tasted rust - Witter Bynner "The New World III"
To taste our bitterest woe - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
Tasting the years ahead of me - Tina Chang "Birth"
A coppery taste of salvage - Tina Chang "Lion"
Adjust the various seasonings to taste - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
have learned the taste of blood - Lucille Clifton "enemies"
Given up as soon as tasted - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."
With every emblem of corrupted Taste - William Combe "The First of April"
But nothing tames our taste - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Eaten by beasts who've never tasted honey - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Tasting the secret letters of your history - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
First tasted under Apollo's lips - H.D. "Evadne"
These ripe pears are bitter to the taste - H.D. "The Gift"
Better to taste of frost - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"
The bitter taste of your commanding - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Tastes blood from imaginary wounds - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"
And never taste death's woe - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"
Malformed figs taste of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Tasted the immortals' bread - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Tastes the same as ink - Heid E. Erdich "In the Belly"
Neither knowing the taste of exile - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"
Taste the bitter draught of woe - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The ashy taste of lamentation - Andrew Feld "Abstract for a Burning City"
Tasting like amnesia - Andrew Feld "Best and Only"
I know the taste of her poisoned bread - Beulah Field "Branded"
For the taste of freedom to flood your famished mouth - Mina Florea "Remember"
Bees and butterflies tasting the fruits - "The Fox and the Geese"
From what I've tasted of desire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
The taste of cold July - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
The tide of joy they never tasted - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For the taste of our name - Jenny George "I Love You"
A joke of doubtful taste - W.S. Gilbert "General John"
Taste my own memories - Nikita Gill "Sorcery"
No taste more bitter nor truer - Dana Gioia "Seaward"
Maybe that's what nothing tastes like - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"
Taste like remembering and forgetting - Rae Gouirand "Stanzas to Those Just Arriving"
Tastes many nameless hours - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
Tasted the bittersweet roots of this crazy world - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Taste the blackberry thorn - francine j. harris "feeder"
Licks its wounds that taste of iodine - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
The taste of happiness in the throat - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Who had tasted the sweetness of air - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"
Never knew this fruit until I tasted it - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
Not knowing the taste of grief - Hsin Ch'i-chi "[When I Was Young]" transl. by Burton Watson
I taste a strange apocalypse - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"
Taste the whirling of all things visible - Mark Irwin "And Now"
Let me stay and taste undying Youth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
forked tongue out tasting his own aimless circles - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
you take & taste my acquired time - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
A taste of helium in the veins - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister"
when the taste of salt sticks for days - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
Tasted empathy and paid it forward - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Ask for a taste of luck - Kassia "Selected Epigrams" transl. from Byzantine Greek by Patrick Diehl
Tastes like ash going down - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Still tasting of small poisons - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"
Of the Well of Life to taste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Not even April's taste is sweet - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
Wine more bitter than the taste of gall - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Could taste him in the dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Find clues in the taste of breadfruit - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
How they tasted of mirrors - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"
Let the fruit taste of sweetness and dust - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
And taste the springs of life - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Tasting of acid flame and apple wine - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Makes my daily soup taste sour - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"
Makes my daily bread taste salt - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"
Grudge him the liquor he's tasted - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
So decided a taste for that kind of thing - Henry S. Leigh "Wanted, a Singer"
Knew the taste of that ending - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The tongue taste of natural color - Ada Limon "Gratitude in Spite of Oneself"
That only by reflection tastes of sun - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"
Taste the spurn of parting Fortune's heel - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Tasters of humble human wines - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
The way the night tastes - W.S. Merwin "Blueberries After Dark"
Drink to know how jewels taste - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The stars will taste of what you find tempting - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Tastes the wide seas of death - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
While I tasted the sights of the barren country - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
Taste of cooled songs - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Where you taste every horizon - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Coated in sauces I've never tasted - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Even though it always tastes bitter - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
Taste the bitter apple - Marilyn Nelson "Bitter Apple"
Keep this taste of shadow - Pablo Neruda "Landscape After a Battle" translated by Richard Schaaf
The taste of thin gold shielding cold brass - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Taste buds adjusting to the taste of hunger - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.56
A marriage of balance and taste - Grace Nichols "O Tea"
Taste the bitter juice of roses - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"
How does one taste the moon? - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author
If peace was something we could taste - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"
Were tasted by the prophets - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
To make so many taste sorrow - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Taste the draught of bitterness anew - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
Only tastes of earth and guilt - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
Tasting honey on my teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
To taste the salt of exertion - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
The bodies of fruit we never tasted - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"
Tasted midnights and dawns, delayed twilight - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
Tasting the bitter syllables of their history - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Great Migration"
Her tea tastes more like dust every day - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Poisons impregnate, in whose taste is death - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Appearances" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
My fingers knew taste before the orange - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
To taste what his veins had hidden - Charles Rafferty "The Man Who Bled Wine"
Faith tastes the bread of God - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
To taste the wells of sleep - Theodore H. Rand "Under the Beeches"
To taste of Bacchus' blessings - Thomas Randolph "To Master Anthony Stafford"
Just a memory of taste - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
An oyster on my tongue searches for the taste of ocean - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Tasting of its bronze and iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Tasting the turbulent fury of living - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
That once have tasted the fairy banquet's bliss - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
Adorned by Art's surpassing taste - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
The fruit whose taste is ash - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"
And tastes the fountain unutterably deep - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
That dark taste still lingers in the mouth - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Taste this minute of eternity - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Taste one sip of an answer - Rumi "Who Says Words with My Mouth?" transl. by Coleman Barks
To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
Taste the gladness of his strawberry ice cream - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"
Our souls shall taste nirvana in such sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"
To drink the air and taste the sun - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"
Taste of the rest that the weary crave - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
The bitter taste ensuing on the sweet - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
For ragged fancies to pluck and taste - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"
Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Tasted of sweets that never knew alloy - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
With love that tastes like starving to death - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Sickness, scorn, and bitterness to taste - Sherard Vines "Permission"
Must learn the taste of truth - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
Learns everything by taste - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Pattern Recognition"
To taste in this paradise of jet - Adolf Wolff "Chiaroscuro"
The same odd taste of bitterness and terror - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Lullaby"
And tasted bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"
Stirring the bitter taste of solitude - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Truth becomes a tasty bait - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
To consider the aftertaste of bark - Deborah Ruddell "The Woodpecker"
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Delight to spice the tasteless years - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"
To snatch the untasted cup away - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
Where some joy untasted yet awaits - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
The burden of untasted death - Hazel Hall "Flash"
The untasted bait that bribed my soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
But all untasted stood the hoard - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
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