Potential Titles: Amber

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Amber wine mellowed to milk - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

The viol's pallid amber notes - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Liquid amber for the indolent crocodile - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

More sweet than amber honey - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

The amber dower of the building bee - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

A ceiling of amber, a pavement of pearl - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

An anchor tattoo in amber - Mary Jo Bang "Outnumbered at O"

Faded into amber & archive - Joshua Bennett "The Sobbing School"

Stained with amethyst and amber dyes - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"

Wading love's amber arpeggios - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"

Raspberries of the glowing amber kind - Louise Morey Bowman "Amber Raspberries"

Parasol of amber grief - Lucie Brock-Broido "Portrait of Lucy with Fine Nile Jar"

Into an amber brilliance rioting outside - Scott Cairns "Dawn at Saint Anna's Skete"

That spills its amber wine - F. O. Call "Wild Grape"

Roses with amber petals - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Honey and amber flecked each leaf - H.D. "The Gift"

Amber husk fluted with gold - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

From amber stones to onyx flecked with violet - H.D. "Thetis"

Parrots of sapphire and sulphur and amber - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"

Amber pockets against the snow - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"

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

Huge branches of coral inky or amber - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

the amber yellow that entraps life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

And four amber sea agates - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

From the angel's wings of amber - Alice Furlong "Yuletide"

A sudden sail of amber flame - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"

Into an instant amber - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"

Amber thought leaked - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"

Glints and drizzles like liquid amber - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Gather the fine amber dust in the air - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Leaving behind nothing but amber - Emily Jiang "Salamander Song"

While the willow trails its delicate amber - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Whale songs in amber - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"

Tangled etchings on the amber pools - Archibald Lampman "April"

The eddying amber depths - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

Dull coatings of a time now ambered - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

Under the amber torches of the sky - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Crimson reefs and isles of amber - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Through darkness smooth as amber - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Sunshine strained through amber wine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

Gray balsam dripping amber on the mould - Jeannette Marks "Again?"

With coral clasps and amber studs - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

Bruised spice and burning amber - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

Dropping amber crystals on the needles of evergreens - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"

An amber-colored amethyst inhabits it - Marianne Moore "A Jelly-Fish"

In golden haze melt down the amber sky - "My Psalm" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

Grind them in mortars of amber and gold - Sarojini Naidu "In Praise of Henna"

Clovers of amber and onyx - Maggie Nelson "Carnegie Hall"

Go back to your amber throne - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Amber coffins carried by the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

With stern lunar amber - Pablo Neruda "The Turtle" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Yellow amber gems to line it - Hoa Nguyen "Netting (Language Ghost)"

A million brilliant ambers twisting - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

The amber color of comfort - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"

Balls of amber and of ivory tossed - May Probyn "Is it Nothing to You?"

Two points of amber fire - Lola Ridge "Shadow"

Where the lily leans o'er an amber stream - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

When the cider-stills run amber - Clinton Scollard "Now's the Time o' Year"

Like woven amber, finely spun - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"

The ambered afternoon slanting through motes of dust - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

With the amber of afterglow - George Sterling "The City and the Silence"

The salt and amber sand - George Sterling "The Lagoon"

Ambers found in dream alone - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"

As a fly lies casketed in amber - Iris Tree "[Long hath the pen lain idle in my hand]"

This amber light whittled down - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"

subsistence in amber rivulets of stilllife - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

In the wavering amber at her feet - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

One amber dawn's delight - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"

Melt down the amber sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Amber does not remember the pine - Charles Wright "We Hope That Love Calls Us, but Sometimes We're Not So Sure"

Little gilt bees in amber drops - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"


Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"


Of passion pale and amber-kissed - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Amber-kissed with years of heat - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"


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