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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2012-01-03 07:48 pm

Potential Titles: Yellow

Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Deadly bacteria hides in the sickly yellow - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"

yellow was first word for gold - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

yellow was wish - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

as his own yellow sign - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

more tangible than yellow - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

A cobwebbed, yellow pot of honey - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

My eyes on the yellow dust - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

In the yellow center of the hyacinth - Sue Budin "Mercury in Retrograde"

When its yellow lustre smiled - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"

Grey twilight and a yellow star - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

A queen of yellow leaves - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"

Ply the hook amid the yellow corn - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"

The lightning showed a yellow beak - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"

The yellow willows waving slow - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"

Lichen to paint my exoskeleton in bursts of blue and yellow - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Our yellowed labels all spell doom - Boris Dralyuk "Emigre Library"

Languid as the yellow mist - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Yellow fall roars over the ground - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Giving us orange and yellow and sometimes green - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"

the primal utterances of yellow - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

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

And the sun shrunken yellow in smoke - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

Upon a blue and yellow day - Zona Gale "Credo"

Fair Yellow in the west - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Fair Yellow in the air - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Fair Yellow had come there - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Yellow I see is my close friend - Zona Gale "Hokku"

Cut out the yellow heart of heaven - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

The shriveling husk of a yellowing moon - Angelina Weld Grimké "Dusk"

Outside among yellowing aspens - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

The yellow weeds you used to ride - Nora Hopper "The Wind Among the Reeds"

Noises that fall through the yellow dust - Hsieh Shang "Song of the Thoroughfare" transl. by Burton Watson

The yellow-black dance of the tiger - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

Teeming now with yellow dandelions - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"

Until absorbed by yellowed floral wallpaper - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Just a dirty shade of yellow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "DeBarge"

Through the yellow plumes of goldenrod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"

My yellow gun still humming with golden bees - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

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

How easily autumn shakes the yellow leaves - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Eating the wallpaper's yellow - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

A rustling yellow multitude - Archibald Lampman "In November"

The yellow dust that rings the knells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

Waves of shadow fret the yellowing fields - Lermontof "When--Then" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Thirty seconds of yellow lichen - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

The traffic light stuck on yellow - Philip Levine "Homecoming"

Wait for a yellow crane to ride - Li Po "River Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

The yellow crane winging home - attributed to Liu Hsi-chun "Song of Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

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

An empire of moss, dead yellow, and carapace - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"

The wasps poised at the yellow plums - John Masefield "The Return"

A fist full of weeds that rise yellow - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"

With yellow oaks deliriously blooming - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

The yellow yesterdays of time - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

An old flag and some yellow rocks - Joanne Merriam "Surface Properties"

Flinging yellow clay on dust - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

From her green lap throws the yellow Cowslip - John Milton "Song on May Morning"

Yellow harvest seldom crowned his head - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Rinsing green life's yellow waters - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman

Yellow birch trees weeping leaves - Jaye Nasir "November"

A rosary of yellow kisses - Pablo Neruda "Advancing in the Lands of Chile" transl. by Jack Schmitt

So many dimensions suddenly yellow - Pablo Neruda "The Clock Fallen into the Sea" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Dressed in silence and yellow - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

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

All her hours were yellow sands - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph for a Darling Lady"

Yellow lading slips among the weeds - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

Mottled grey-blue with threats of yellow - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Brought me yellow calendulas - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"

Yellow sun and shadow are spinning gold behind - Lloyd Roberts "The Wood Trail"

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

Lazy yellow ardours - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

Well laden wi' the yellow gold - Frederick Sheldon "Belted Will"

In the moving depths of yellow wine - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

The scent of yellow sapphires - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Learns What She Learned"

And fret a moon of yellow ivory - Clark Ashton Smith "Arabesque"

While this yellow world is mine - "The Song of the Seven Archangels" transl. by Ernest Rhys

Thunder-chorded surf on yellow sands - George Sterling "Duandon"

The orange far down in yellow - Wallace Stevens "The Green Plant"

With citrons yellow and tangerines still green - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

Yellow melting like a firework petal - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"

In a dance of yellow hopefulness - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

Blue and yellow grapes for faery beggars - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

Black horses yellowing with strain - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

Yellowed messages sailing down - Rosanna Warren "Boletus"

Trace flame-flicker in the grain of yellow birch - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"

Yellow warblers in the deep trees singing - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

Sweetness lingers on time's yellowed page - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

A clutter of yellow and blue - William Carlos Williams "Blizzard"

June is a yellow cup I'll not name - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

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

In blue and yellow enamel - William Carlos Williams "March"

The leaves are little yellow fish - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"

Nor picked the yellow lilies - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

Built a Disneyland of yellow brick - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

Ill befall the yellow flowers - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"

Sweet yeast for the yellow dust - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"

Stand high on the yellow rushes - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


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