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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-07-05 07:54 pm

Potential Titles: Gild

The shore of some brief & gilded mercy - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

A gilded curtsy to the sunfill - Elizabeth Acevedo "Ode to the Head Nod"

A gilded weathercock at intervals glimmers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Gilded by the lunar disc - Benjamin West Ball "Twilight in Egypt"

Gilding meadows with their cups - Mrs. Sale Barker "Cowslip Gathering"

From Daylight's wreck her gilded spars - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

Gild his words with glucose - May Chong "Catering"

To fall before the gilded beast - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"

A thousand spires speak gilded words - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

Gilded phantom of the cheated brain - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"

Which truth and honor gild not - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"

Gilded cats guarding the empty bridge - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"

Drifting like gilded ghosts before my eyes - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Sped along by whips with gilded handles - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"

Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"

Her mother's ring gilded in dust - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

And a sweet hope gilds the future - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"

Sought the banquet's gilded hall - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

To gild Destruction with a smile - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"

A gilded mote on blue velvet - Nazim Hikmet "On Living" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Nor need his relics any gilded shrine - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

With all its gilded snares - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Gilded Nothings - Anne Killigrew "A Farewell to Worldly Joyes"

Gilding the edges of unread books - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

Forget the fame that gilds the name - Henry S. Leigh "The Miseries of Genius"

The gilded magpie mirror - Li T'ai-Po "Written in the Character of a Beautiful Woman Grieving Before Her Mirror" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Quiet from the gilded fly that flits - James Russell Lowell "To a Friend Who Gave Me a Group of Weeds and Grasses, After a Drawing of Durer"

Gilded dreams of silver-singing night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Justice spread her gilded wing - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"

Pent in gilded jails - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"

Gilded aerialists in their giant dirigibles - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Whose Virtue gilds the world below - Philo "The Tribute"

Without blare of any gilded trumpet - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Their gilded galleys came home from a hundred seas - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

The gilded monuments of princes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LV"

Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"

Gilding the battle-storm, rolling in wrath - "The Star-Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

And gilds the driving hail - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Sir Galahad"

And error gilding worst designs - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

A sky gilded with violets and myrrh - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

Awhile to sit within its gilded cage - H.J.W. "An Evening Hymn" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

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

The tired daffodil has closed its gilded doors - Oscar Wilde "Endymion"


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