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Potential Titles: Bud

Fruit trees murdered in the bud - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Where buds are beginning to break - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

The tremulous sense of bud and bower - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "A Touch of Nature"

the search for first green bud - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

A bud if the sap considered storm - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Crowned with leaf and bud - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"

Thorny bud and poisonous flower - Emily Bronte "The Elder's Rebuke"

For twenty years I have watched them bud - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

And bud with amethyst and topaz - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

Softly from their parting buds uncoil - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The meadow's budding asphodels - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Bud to flower in the time of spring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

And buds were pink between - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

Not a bud that blossoms - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"

That buds and blossoms in her eyes - James H. Cousins "Ireland"

Who plants a seed begets a bud - Countee Cullen "Fruit of the Flower"

The first buds of the chill narcissus - H.D. "Demeter"

Budding hope and darling plan - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"

Dusk buds their breathing wings - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Blossom and bud between - Edward Dowden "Salome"

The buds upon the hawthorn spread - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Dreams will erupt in chaotic buds of flame - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

Misty buds among your saplings - Max Eastman "In My Room"

Curved like chestnut buds in spring - Joan Evans "The Hamadryad"

April buds and August skies - Sebastian Evans "Shadows"

A tiny germ that yet shall bud and blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

And the great orchards burst from bud to blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

Striking dead both Bud and Bloom - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

Buds unset by mortal hand - "Flora: a Vision"

Their wistful buds at dawn - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"

The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"

A whispered vow beneath the budding elm - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"

Like the buds that wait patient beneath the dead leaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"

Bud at another year's breaking - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

The blowing buds of lovely mirth - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"

The budding trees all honey sweet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Farewell"

Drove the sap and broke the bud - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"

Flinging its kisses to the budding trees - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

The hopes and buds that gladdened first - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Flowers lured from their buds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"

Life's sweetest buds fall withered - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Broken with curled flower buds - Archibald Lampman "April"

Folded buds of memories - Archibald Lampman "The Child's Music Lesson"

Whose buds yield fragrant harvest - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"

Sensing the root, the bud, the bough - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Asking some stick, like Aaron's, to bud - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

In the bursting buds of roses - Douglas Malloch "June"

A belt of straw and ivy buds - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

Budded beech with dry leaves curled - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

Giving the bud I give the flower - Alice Meynell "The Young Neophyte"

Budded, bloomed, and shattered - Edna St Vincent Millay "Three Songs of Shattering"

The buds of spring grew withered in his grasp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Rooted to budding metals - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The honey-birds pipe to the budding figs - Sarojini Naidu "Spring"

When you gaze on the bud - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

The buds of the poplars are falling - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

Dryads from the leafless oak or budded elder - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

A bud before the flower - Meredith Nicholson "Sweetheart Time"

By the fruits of Freedom's bud - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Every bud of thought display - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"

Striving seeds and budding flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Thoughts at Ajaccio"

The budding summer hopes our hearts too fondly cherished - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Like buds in a cobweb - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

In molten spatters of bud and bloom - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

Hidden deep in each bright bud - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Singing down the leafless aisles to the budding year - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"

The leaves of Autumn guard the buds of Spring - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

As the bud of thoughts expands - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"

The first violets will bud unseen - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

From the bud she lures the flower - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

And buds of marjoram had stol'n - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"

Huddled in our buds waiting to bloom - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"

All the scarlet buried in the bud - George Sterling "California"

Blow the globes of dew from opening buds - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

One bud from off the tree of Earth - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"

Budding with beech trees and brisk walkers - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Held crosswise to the budding day - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"

A garland of buds plucked from the camphorweed - Divya Victor "Blood/Soil"

To bless far landscapes anew with leaf and bud - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"

As budding pines in Spring - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"


From the leaves of budless violets - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"


Brandishing flowerbuds of desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


Rigid myrrh-bud, camphor-flower - H.D. "Sea Iris"


Rose and rosebud on one stem - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

And renew my faith in an ornamental rosebud - Jay Wright "Kumu"


And all the myriad star-buds burst in flame - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"


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