Potential Titles: Thistle

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Where grateful thistles bloom - "As-cription"

A thistle will do away with your hunger - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

Like a thistle dipped in frost - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Courtesan Chats"

A thistle on the palm - Lucie Brock-Broido "The One Thousand Days"

The difference between thistles and burrs - Chris Dombrowski "Rex's Georgic: Hunting Morels in Last Year's Burn"

Parked among thistles - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"

Deft seeds blown from a thistle-head - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

Flowering like marigolds or thistles - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

A thistle of cloud remote and blown - Zona Gale "Wind Song"

Little thistles between the humans & non-humans - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"

Saved only thorns and thistles for myself - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

Sand from the thistle covered fog - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"

The thistle sheds its royal robes - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Grapes do not come of thorns nor figs of thistles - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"

Gave her thistles three - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"

Acidic music of thistles - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Beside the thistle's thirst - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt

To clutch a fistful of thistle - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Quick as thistles - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

And the Roses and Thistles, agree to entwine - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Stinging thistles round a haunted charnel - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

The thistle grew broader and higher - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"


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