Potential Titles: Fruit

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Destruction is the fruit - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"

I would rather bear fruit than fire - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

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

Fruit you'll leave for the squirrels - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"

Eating raw fruit in a field of mustard - Zaina Alsous "A Non-Euclidean View of Backwards as a Warm Place to Be"

Heavy with a whole collection of fresh fruits - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"

The abundance of September's fruits - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "Dionysus" transl. by Allan Francovich

A forest of fruit taking root - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"

Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

The mortal fruit upon the bough - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"

summer our dream with its fruit - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"

Who hung up fruits and flowers - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"

Dying sugars of once growing fruit - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Bears the fruit of Deceit - William Blake "The Human Abstract"

A honeycomb of fruit and flowers - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"

And feed on bitter fruit - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"

Pitted fruits set forth - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson

A curse for all its fruit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Not the fruit of pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Sudden as a perfect fruit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Jubilant flowers and nectar-breathing fruits - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Like a basket of green fruit, intact - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade

That had eaten the abbey's fruits - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"

The fruit of dreamy hoping - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."

By scanty fruit and tardy grain - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

The golden increment of bursting fruit - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"

Fruit cannot drop through this thick air - H.D. "Garden"

The work of frosted fruit - H.D. "Lais"

And ripe fruits in their purple hearts - H.D. "Pear Tree"

Your coaxing will only make a bitter fruit - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

The only fruit the dead can eat - Tyree Daye "what the angels eat"

Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"

The fruit that makes men wise - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Except for a frozen half-bitten fruit - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"

Tear apart the lace of fruit - Diana Marie Delgado "In the Romantic Longhand of the Night"

Fruit had no recourse but rot - Camille T. Dungy "Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another"

The fruit of my task fulfilled - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse

Known fruit of the unknown - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Bees and butterflies tasting the fruits - "The Fox and the Geese"

imitations of the fruit's spectral physics - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

On charcoal they fatten their fruit - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

To stir the fruited bough of the juniper - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"

Learned from the forbidden fruit - Robert Frost "Quandry"

Wine and fruit in fragrant dress - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

From eating of forbidden fruit - Theodosia Garrison "The Three Ghosts"

Which dwells not in fruit or in flower - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A bitter fruit for us to share - Carmen Gimenez "Beasts"

That scattered glass fruit around your feet - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Music Man"

Shall together consume the fruits of the earth - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

The fruit that's already the seed - Leah Naomi Green "Arrival"

What they offer to their fruits - Leah Naomi Green "Week Twenty: Indulgences"

Come with offerings of wine and fruit - Han-Shan "[Have I a body or have I none?]" transl. by Burton Watson

Their desperate fruit - Leslie Harrison "[December]"

The fruit of the vine bitter and premature - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Never knew this fruit until I tasted it - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"

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

Like furies in the fruit - Andrew Hudgins "The Chinaberry Trees"

Flower and fruit overflow - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"

If grief is a shining fruit - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

Fruits redden to their dawn - Lionel Johnson "In England"

With the ripe first fruit - Lionel Johnson "A Song of Israel"

The fruit of my best hour - C.R. Jury "Sonnet"

Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Of castles and the fruits of shadows - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

One stalk of corn can't bear fruit - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

The dry universe gives up its fruit - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Let the fruit taste of sweetness and dust - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Your self-conscious secret fruits - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Offer the first fruits of the clustered bowers - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

The ripe fruit of a question - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"

Like a hail of wet fruits - Aimee Le "Praise Poem for Mtn Dew"

The dropped fruit lies beneath its tree - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Straggling orchard that bears no fruits - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

The olive with its fruit of peace - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The fruit of Freedom's tillage - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Fruit of the fear just passed - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Must strive for higher fruits - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Whose fruit was never ripe - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

The table ripe with fruits and metal parts - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

All this skin that will never bear fruit - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Betrayed by the fruit of the garden - Goran Lowie "Skywoman and Eve"

Hope with her Dead Sea fruits is there - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

The gray-green fruit of the juniper - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

With the cold, dark fruit under our tongues - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

To eat rocks like fruit - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Resist"

The fruits of ignoble days - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of Forgotten Heroes"

Deeper than flower and fruit - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Which are ripe fruit of sun - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

Fruits were all their sky - George Meredith "The Orchard and the Heath"

Fruit and flower on the same branch - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"

No gracious weight of golden fruits - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: III"

Fruit as bitter as the Dead Sea's - "The Misanthrope"

Should I find the sweeter fruits of dream - William Moore "Expectancy"

The fruit of the people's war - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"

Fruits just stolen from the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A terrible fruit of electric beauty - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Atom" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

A fruit from the thirst-tree - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly

Make flower and fruit in me - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"

While it dreamed of fruit - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"

hungry for the fruit of cracked bones - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

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

Their fruits of salt & wood - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

The bodies of fruit we never tasted - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"

The fruits of my demise - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

feed on the fruits of my demise - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

Fruit before the time of leaves - E.J. Pratt "Magnolia Blossoms"

Sought her deadly fruits - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Our Daily Bread"

Fruits of some convulsive hour - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"

The fruits of hollow-heartedness - Alexander Pushkin "[I've overlived aspirings]" transl. by John Pollen

The plagues that are in hell light on the fruit - "The Queen of Elfland"

Rarest fruits in that garden grew - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Two Angels"

Fruit and flowers I sent in my stead - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

The harsh fruit of the land - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

Who want no finer disasterous fruit - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

Imbued with fruit and varnish - Rimbaud "The Minx" (translated by A.M. Juster)

To pluck me as an unripe fruit of treason - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Not given to know the riper fruit that waits - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

The fruit whose taste is ash - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"

Plucked bitterest fruit to give - Christina Rossetti "Eve"

Laden with fruits of the earth - Edna K. Saloomey "My Lebanon"

To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Without a hint of flower or fruit - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: The Old Prize Fighter"

The great fruits of my failure - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

For this is the fruit of doubting - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Renew both fruit and flower - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"

Where tears alone are fruit - George Sterling "In Autumn"

Fruit from the ripening bough of Thought - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Last year's frost and last year's fruit - Muriel Stuart "Leda"

The ready fruit in clusters - May Swenson "Strawberrying"

The yearning of the blossom toward the fruit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

Hope at highest and all her fruit - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

With the flowers and fruits of the Six Seasons - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"

The last juices from the sun's ripe fruit - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"

Stale juices from the shrivelled fruit - Iris Tree "[There are songs enough of love]"

The ghost of love conjured as fruit - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Vermilion blossoms bear no fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Late harvests gather good fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Hoped to pluck the fruits of life - Tso Ssu "The Scholar in the Narrow Street" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Mountain fruits served for rations - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson

Among the golden fruit upon the wall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell

See the pink of fruit above us - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"

Peach blossoms thought only of fruit to come - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson

Perversities of flower and fruit - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Who knew the virtue of the fatal fruit - "The Whore"

Whose fruits all anguish mend - William Carlos Williams "The Uses of Poetry"

The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Core and rind of that same fruit - Elinor Wylie "Valentine"

Cornucopias which spill fruits red and purple - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Harvest fruit tanged with sulfur - Stephen Yenser "Petition on Santorini"

Cure the bitter fruit in brine - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Lest their last fruit be tears - Francis Brett Young "Testament"


In the orchard of dream-fruit fair - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"


Cull time's sweet first-fruits - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


Whose fruitage beautiful allures each sense - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VII--Midsummer"


Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull


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Full many a fruitless prayer - John Clare "Patty of the Vale"

Sets for a fruitless still life - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

Tedious argument and fruitless creed - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"

Fruitless husk and fugitive flower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"


Under old, red-fruited yews - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

Which is spirit-fruit of reverence - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"


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