Potential Titles: Brown

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Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"

Brown bees about the peach trees boom - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

The murmur of your brown immensity - Maurice Baring "Russia"

Brown and bruised as apples over-ripe - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

Retreats in a wall of brown foam - Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose"

The details of his festival in brown - Max Bodenheim "Psychology from Mars"

Where your brown hills bite the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "Realism"

The brown bees reel with rapture - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In an Old Garden"

The stately mullein rears its brown and withered crest - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Brown upon the woodland leaf - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

A secret from the brown earth steal - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Brown shadows leaping up the wall - Frances Cornford "Autumn Evening"

Among the blind brown worms - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"

In the brown brittle of fall - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Brown leaf shards gathering in the gutter - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Clad in useful brown - Helen Parry Eden "The Lady Pheasant"

Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"

Beneath the alders brown and bare - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

O'er cloud of amber brown- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"

The brown larks of the dwindling down - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

For brightest brown have donned a gray - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"

When beeches drip in browns and duns - Thomas Hardy "Weathers"

The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"

In a brown wild loveliness - F.W. Harvey "On Over Bridge at Evening"

A cell of brown and bloody earth - F.W. Harvey "The Sleepers"

A brown swirl of windy leaves - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"

Wistful, muted brown - Malathi Michelle Ivengar "Sepia"

Soft, nostalgic brown - Malathi Michelle Ivengar "Sepia"

Where brown trout browse - "The Isle of Arran" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Melting ice and brown islands of bulrush - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"

Stripped down to the brown of my mind - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

The jewel in the toad's brown head - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

A fragile old heart, the brown map of a life - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

Brushes brown varnish over the past - Ted Kooser "A Sepia Photograph"

The brown bees murmur faint dreams - Archibald Lampman "April"

Above your brown floods rise - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"

Where the brown buzzard flies - Emma Lazarus "The South"

Where brown leaves gather shadow - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

The brown breath of Autumn chills - Frances Ledwidge "The Lost Ones"

The tears of the brown rain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Fear"

Whether autumn browns seem dreary - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Brown hayfield in the dew - Jeannette Marks "Thatch"

Or warm brown of tree bark - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

Cupped in brown-gold - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

Resting in my brown upon earth - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

My stem is strong as brown cedar - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

Leaves are getting brown - James E. McGirt "Winter"

Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"

A day with no colors except brown - W.S. Merwin "Print Fallen Out of Somewhere"

Brown like thrush and lark - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"

Brown has mighty things to do - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"

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

Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

As the red impatiens wither and brown - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

The faint brown of a martyr's soil - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"

Where brown angels hovered - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"

Melancholy like an old brown sweater - Katha Pollitt "Happiness Writes White"

Nor ever Autumn's leaves of brown - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"

And the brown bogs will be quaking - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

As brown as an ancient scroll - Frederick George Scott "On an Old Venetian Portrait"

And the oak's brown side - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"

The brown bittern speaks in the bog - "A Sleep Song" transl. by P.H. Pearse

Under the brown banks of the Nile - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Brown and brittle falls the leaf - George Sterling "The Pathway"

The brown at the bottom of red - Wallace Stevens "The Green Plant"

Bare, brown branches stark against the deep, blue sky - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

The racing of brown rabbits on the hill - Iris Tree "To My Mother"

Crouching bears, black and brown - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Heard the brown thrush mourning - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

Tracked the brown bear and the deer - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"

And brown ants in the little wells - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

Nuts from brown October's wood - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

By virtue of brown eyes turning back the seasons - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Exquisite brown waves - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

Into your grey-brown landscapes - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

My brown sea-weed - William Carlos Williams "A Prelude"

Morning brown-stone and slate - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

The bare and brown a pause between - Humbert Wolfe "Opals and Amber"

Rust's brown hatred - Adam Zagajewski "Highway"

Tracks of brown and gold across the tarmac - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


A brownstone for hummingbirds - francine j. harris "Wetland"


Who quaff the nut-brown ale - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Song of a nutbrown hen - Donika Kelly "Bower"


Grapes of purple-brown and gold - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"


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