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Something crimson is in the wind - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

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

Crimson thoughts within me writhe and burn - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

like our songs in crimson mirth - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

flamed in crimson joy - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Crimson antagonists to contemplation - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

Darkly painted on the crimson sky - William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl"

Crimson current warm and true - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Resplendent guardians of crimson light - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]

Crimson glories, bloom, and song - W. Wilfred Campbell "Love"

In purple ash and crimson oak - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"

With crimson-dashed and eager jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

Some Monarch in a crimson field - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"

Salvation's fount for crimson crimes - John Castillo "Thoughts on Good Friday"

A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars - Willa Cather "Prairie Dawn"

That from the crimson summer blows - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"

Hide the crimson secret of your sunset - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"

Crimson kings on battle-towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Had made a crimson crown - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"

A rose, a crimson rose! - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"

That dallied with a crimson rose - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Hide now so long those crimson shades among - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Gold and crimson strew earth's gloomy floor - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Summon gold and crimson, bright as dyed in blood - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

The weary moments dragged their crimson sands - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

The gray fur of a crimson cat - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

Ghost of the crimson tree - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"

Close-seated in one crimson boat - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Crimsoned by the Road of Fame - Coningsby Dawson "The Once Sung Song"

Grasped again his crimson sword - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Burning crimson like a poison - Max Eastman "A Morning"

The crimson windy call of liberty - Max Eastman "To an Actress"

Memory like a crimson afterglow - Helen Parry Eden "Bournemouth to Poole"

Its shawl of crimson horses - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

Clusters with hearts of crimson - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"

O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

From vivid crimson paled to fainter gloss - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Who catches the first crimsoning of dawn - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Crimson or gold dropping away - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"

A splendid flare of crimson on the feast - Katherine Hale "Cun-ne-wa-bum"

Cherries shine with crimson fire - Han-Shan "[The birds and their chatter]" transl. by Burton Watson

On the crimson fields of strife - Frances E.W. Harper "Our Hero"

From those crimson rivulets - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVII"

Flashed into crimson with the sunrise charm - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"

The alder's veins turn crimson - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

Handing you a knot of crimson blooms - Conrad Hilberry "With Esperanza on the Roof"

Crimson sky and crystal run - Henry B. Hirst "The Valley of Shadow"

Vultures have crimsoned their beaks in thy heart - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Crimson tracks in the blackened loam - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

When the mountain peach unfurls its crimson petals - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson

Crimson fruit chilled in water - Hsieh T'iao "In a Provincial Capital Sick in Bed: Presented to the Shang-shu Shen" transl. by Burton Watson

Washed of every crimson stain - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"

Panting to crimson gloom - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Vexed with prying silver beam his crimson dream - Elsa Kazi "India--Entertaing Twilight"

Wreaths of crimson and yellow foxglove - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

Roses made of crimson light - Joyce Kilmer "A Valentine"

The heart of a crimson peony - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"

Like a molten sea of crimson - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"

Smeared in crimson light - Lee Young-ju "Roommate, Woman" transl. by Jae Kim

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

Retained its vivid crimson hue - Dr. John Leyden "The Mermaid"

Lifts a key of crimson stone - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Springing bridges of crimson lacquer - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

Small stars jetting maroon and crimson - Amy Lowell "Vintage"

With shadows faintly crimson - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"

The brow of the King swelled crimson - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

The wide expanse of crimsoned plain - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"

Around it broke the crimson gale - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"

Wearing the crimson mantle of the sun - George Martin "Aspiration"

Centuries that bore a crimson hue - George Martin "Books"

Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"

Climbs the crimson-flooded air - James M'Carroll "Dawn"

Shadowy towers crimsoned with sunset - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

Brought crimson October's beautiful decay - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Tightly tinged with crimson - Alexander Posey "Callie"

The hounds of the crimson sky - Ezra Pound "Ballad of the Goodly Fere"

Flooded the crimson twilight - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"

Follow the track of the crimson day - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"

And died in the crimson west - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Sent to Heaven"

A rose whose crimson breath revealed - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"

Its half-blown crimson to eclipse - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"

Pallid ash to crimson flame - Theodore H. Rand "A Red Sunrise"

Became the germ of a crimson storm - Melissa Range "Kermes Red"

Drinking the spaces of crimson - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Chaste pallor, with a crimson stain - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

Where the vines cling crimson - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Luke Havergal"

Groves of yellow beech and crimson oak - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet III"

You that so flung your crimson to the sun - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

Dropped through crimson gloom to darkness - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

Sundered flakes of crimson twist and turn - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

With tongues of argent fire and crimson shrouds - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

The future draws its crimson thread - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"

Nor thou the crimson sheen - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"

Eyes imprisoned behind crimson bars of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

All the crimson wrecks of pride - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"

When the gloom of crimson lifts - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

In robes of gold and crimson fire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

Crimson fingers lift a crimson grain - George Sterling "Aftermath"

The sky-line's crimson harbors - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

The sun upon its crimson pyre - George Sterling "At Sunset"

The crimson fountains of the dawn - George Sterling "Duandon"

Whose fragile dome is crimson - George Sterling "Duandon"

From crimson victories of war - George Sterling "Duandon"

And forms in restless crimson dyed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

Power, with encrimsoned hands - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"

Beheld that crimson billow soar - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"

The crimson gardens of the mourning air - George Sterling "October"

Far below the crimson star - George Sterling "The Rack"

The Hydra's crimson heart - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Like a crimson throat to hell - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

A crimson spider hidden in a skull - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Untouched by crimson or by gold - George Sterling "A Winter Dawn"

The crimson dawn breaks through - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

With eye of wild and flashing crimson - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"

Crimson from your all-night vigil - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 96: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Mountains and rivers and crimson sunbirds - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"

Or long-haired page in crimson clad - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"

The crimson beds of sleeping airs - Hugh Miller Thompson "Sleeping" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Mushroom clouds cluster along the crimson horizon - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

Fire walked in crimson armour - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

Amid the white and crimson store - Henry van Dyke "Reliance"

Unfaded too its crimson brands - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

That gild the battle's crimson tide - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

The crimson tongues of thundering cannon - Arthur Weir "Fleurs de Lys: The Captured Flag"

The crimson evil of a satyr's lips - Helen Hay Whitney "The Flowers of Proserpine"

Crimson poison petal of the South - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ruby"

Show us crimson in some tragic way - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Whose crimson roses burst his frost - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

Crimson petals spilled among the stones - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Three girls in crimson satin - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"

A dark crimson corner of roof - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

Crimson tinged its braided snow - John Wilson "The Evening Cloud"

God upon a crimson wave - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"

Do not forget your crimson cloak - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"


Reposing in the crimson-curtained west - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)


Swung in crimson-sphered completeness - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"


From Troy's doom-crimson shore - James Elroy Flecker "The Old Ships"


Encrimsoning the lips of our surprise - Max Eastman "A Visit"


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