Potential Titles: Stain

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To stain the ashy sky - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

So deeply stained with sorrow's dye - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Where skies are free from stain - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"

Stained with amethyst and amber dyes - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"

The shifting shadow of a stain on your rigid lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "To --" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

And taste a stain like blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"

Deep stained with malice, hate and spleen - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

Could not stain romance - Nathalia Crane "Love"

tongue stained in mulberry blood - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"

Ill with dust as you with stain - H.D. "From the Masque"

Stained among the salt weeds - H.D. "Sea Iris"

The stain of rich red wine - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

Brought a stain into my mouth - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

Words stained by hunger - Jordi Doce "With Eyes Opened on the Edge of the World"

Flowers that were stained with moonlight - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Her stained windows reared between them and the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Stained into the brick and mind - Max Garland "In the Meantime"

Both contains and refuses the stain - Leslie Harrison "[I keep throwing words at the problem because words]"

Daring choices stained the clouds - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"

Flourished the stained cape of his heart - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

A white stain on the night - Ben Hecht "My Island"

No stain of deep and Stygian dye - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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

The beautiful berry leaves a dark stain on the tongue - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Stains of rust on mounds of plaster - Robinson Jeffers "Summer Holiday"

Stained with the breath of ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "A Place We Briefly Lived"

Washed of every crimson stain - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"

A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"

Staining my hands with snow - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

A mist of light stains the willows - Li Ching-chao "Tune: Endless Union" transl. by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh

Another stain across his tarnished honour - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"

Who stained the slopes with bloody feet - Don Marquis "The Comrade"

That stains the dying of the sun - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"

Last winter's salt stains - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"

Too long, too deep a stain - Charlotte Mew "The Cenotaph"

sticks and stains and leaves its undefeatable marks - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

cut a vein and stain the pried petals - Elis Montgomery "Inheritance"

Only a honey-thick stain - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Stained the sun with blackened love - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

How many places stained with their tears - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

A new star stained with resin - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid

Honey-stained by time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Two travel stained wanderers - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"

And carve off each stain of the hurt - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"

Seeming freedom stained by fears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

A salient stain on the horizon - Xan Forest Phillips "Hull"

A stain of day yet lingers - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"

No matter how much salt stains the pillow - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

Stains all its light touches - William Reichard "In the Evening"

Chaste pallor, with a crimson stain - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

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

Scarlet stains across the dipping hills of sun - Lloyd Roberts "The Berry Pickers"

Sun soaked and dusk stained - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"

A voice stained like iron - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Red sumac stains on their hands - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"

Grass stains and beach glass - Richard Scott "Peridot"

A mosquito stain between the pages of your book - Lisa Sewell "Letter from a Haunted Room"

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXV"

Brazen chariots stained with blood - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

The red stain on the ceiling - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"

Conscious of the recent stains - William Somerville "The Chase"

Deep gnawed by rust and stain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

Over-scored with faded words and stained with time - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"

Transient passion with its stains and stings - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Stained by the ardent silver of the stars - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"

Only a honey-thick stain - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

May adorn with deeper stain - Humbert Wolfe "Love and Beauty"

Years staining from the inside out - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Mottled with creeping rust stains - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"

In the pale stains of stars - Adam Zagajewski "Summer '95"


Bloodstain.


Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"


The quiet intent of my earth-stained hands - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid


The finger-stains of the devoured - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti


In the nest of my inkstained fingers - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani


Glided over the salt-stained water - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"


Their glories, scarlet-stained and golden - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"


Arrange the facets of stained glass into story - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"


Stainless.


All the sun-stained fragments of the day - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"


Time-stained and crusted with the sea's salt breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

In their time-stained insight expelled - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"


Unstained with flattery's art - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Unstained with hostile blood - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

The sun's self unstain'd and bright remains - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VII"


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