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Through fine purple clover was faring - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Bobolink's Song"

The softness of a trillion purple skies - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

A treasure trove of purple lilacs - Mary Jo Bang "The Fable of a Fabric Woven with Resistance"

Silent orchestra of purple trumpets - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"

Purple iris in the woodland sedge - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"

Licking purple from your palm - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

felt the purple air's dissent - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"

Rough angles with the color purple - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

A storied purple destiny of ships run aground - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

Purpled evenings spent in pleasing toil - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

To greet the purpling east - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Hailed the purple robe of air - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

Pitched her purple tents in Rome - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

Or veil themselves in purple light - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"

Purpled the beaks of our ravens - Thomas Campbell "Song of the Greeks"

Purple shut in gold - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

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

Through purple mists ascending - Willa Cather "Prairie Dawn"

Cry of the palms and the purple moons - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

The purple country of Prester John - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

On Time's utmost purple height - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"

Blistered purple with gravity - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

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

The surprise of purple and the scent of rain - Kwame Dawes "Purple"

Purple could not keep the east - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IV: Day's Parlor"

The purple wounds of the peonies - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

The near edge of the purple horizon - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica Apocalyptica"

Purple carnations dark as my heart - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

Bandages of purple light - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

No one's ever seen a purple sun - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"

In the ripples' purple play - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Twin stars through my purpling pane - Angelina Weld Grimké "Dusk"

Through purple lips of wrath - Frances E.W. Harper "Vashti"

Stand again in rose and purple - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Trimmin's on the Rosary"

The purple radiance of Elysium - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Purple with damps and earthish stains - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Sweet as purple dew - Langston Hughes "Midnight Dancer"

We pour strange wines and purples all - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Forever winding to purple dreaming - Fenton Johnson "Revery"

Deepening in purple, flaming in gold - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

Chanters of the gold and purple harvest - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

What purple fields of tempest - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"

The rich mist of purple grapes - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Beside the misty flowers of purple lavender - Lionel Johnson "In England"

In the aftermath of purple cress - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Buried lie in purple beds of thyme - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Cover me with your everlasting arms]"

Purple wreaths of mournful nightshade - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Oh! that I were a fairy sprite, to wander]"

That mourn in flowing Purple - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Build to the purple of Pride - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

From the full resource of some purple dome - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

Beyond day's purple limit dropped - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

Through purple mists of riddled speech - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love V: The Day of the Two Daffodils"

The purple damask of their scales - Li Po "In Reply When Lesser Officials of Chung-tu Brought a Pot of Wine and Two Fish to My Inn as Gifts" transl. by Burton Watson

Strung with threads of purple fire - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Swift Destiny shook out her purple wings - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"

With purple and yellow crocuses in its hair - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

Constellation of Purple Devotion - Jennifer Martelli "Corinthians 13:11"

Purple bramble reddening into blaze - John Masefield "King Cole"

Silvers and purples breathing - Edgar Lee Masters "The Grand River Marshes"

Imperial in purple, gold and blood - Theodore Maynard "The Return"

Purple rose before the thorn - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"

The purple flowers of fragrant June - Claude McKay "The Plateau"

In the braid of purpled vapours - George Meredith "The South-Wester"

Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

With purple beams and azure wings - John Milton "On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, My Christian Friend"

Geology's purple coffin - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Purple bird of the first abyss - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Purple honey woven fiber by fiber - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Your heart burning in the purple - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Who dressed herself in purple lightning - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

In the purple of Babylon - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

No purple vein from the mellow grape-heart bursting - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Tangled in the heavy purple veil - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

The dark and purple stain of war - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"

Plucks the purple plums and spills the cherries on the grass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

Where Circe's isle floats purple - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

Endless shriek of purple cloud - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"

A red yell and a purple prayer - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Purple as the gulfs of sleep - Clinton Scollard "The Glen of Castlemaine"

Purpled with wild grapes crushed wantonly - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

From that purple threshold of the world - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"

Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull

In foam and purple lost - Clark Ashton Smith "Ashes of Sunset"

A swirl of stardust in pink, in purple, in blue - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"

The purple wings of Night - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"

As twilight mixed its purple - George Sterling "Duandon"

The purple kingdoms of the old mirage - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"

Time's purple deepens to oblivion - George Sterling "To the Moon"

Through all its purples to the final slate - Wallace Stevens "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"

Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Hear the purple glens replying - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"

Tore my purple into rags and knelt - Iris Tree "Flame"

Behind the purple bloom of the horizon - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

The purple and golden blooms of the sun - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

With crowns of kelp and frantic purple flowers - Genya Turovskaya "Wisterical"

Pursues the gold and purple - Paul Verlaine "L'Amour par Terre" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Out of the purple treasuries of night - Helen Hay Whitney "Malua"

A splendour of purple garments - William Carlos Williams "An After Song"

Spring is gone down in purple - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"

The yellow and purple dusk - William Carlos Williams "History"

An oblique cloud of purple smoke - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

The purple flowers of Dis burn their young foreheads - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

The purple indifference of prophets - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

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

Soft as August's livid purple figs - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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


Mint droops purple-tipped with frost - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"


Burnt to red-purple in the cup - H.D. "Prisoners"


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