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From the leaves of budless violets - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

Opened the violet's soft blue eye - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

Bright blue and violet summer flavors - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Snare the dream of a violet - Clive Bell "March"

Hidden prize of fragrant violets - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"

Violet splendor melting down - W. Wilfred Campbell "Glory of the Dying Day"

Planets pale in violet skies - Willa Cather "Song"

Thrives like violet on the vine - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"

Violet sky cradling shards of sun - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

From amber stones to onyx flecked with violet - H.D. "Thetis"

And lurking violets blow - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

To fill my lap with violets - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

Vaporous sapphire, violet glow and silver gleam - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

The violet is sleeping yet - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Despair is still servant to the violet - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

Nests in a tangle of veined violets - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Praising the violet and vermilion - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

To earthly rose and violet and blue - Zona Gale "Light"

The violet on the swelling bank - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

As Jason heard in violet seas - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"

The violets curtsied and went to bed - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Weaving violet shadows on their shining surface - Mona Gould "Tasting the Earth"

Cover him over with violets of pride - Ivor Gurney "To His Love"

Something violet and lingering - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"

What profit from the violet's day of pain? - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"

As welcome as the violets in March - Fenton Johnson "The Banjo Player"

The field where sky and violet blend - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Violets"

Sleep like brides in violets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"

Like unbidden violets from the sod - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

Sweet epitaphs of vines and violets - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

'Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Never heeds the violets or lilies - Joyce Kilmer "Said the Rose"

Violets fade with the May - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"

Tipped with violet fire - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

With violet and vastness and gold - Archibald Lampman "The Sun Cup"

Of dauntless, silent violets - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

Drunk on honey-dew and violet's breath - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

A violet blooming through scrap metal - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

To bring the violets out of Caesar's dust - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Mist crawling toward violet mountains - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"

When the turn of the violet comes - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"

On violet shaded snow - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Uplands where gold violets grow - Helen M. Merrill "Sun-Gold"

Violets trail off in an innocent wind - Maggie Nelson "Sleepy Demise of the Season"

A violet with its crown of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott

The violet medusa of envy - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Right to the heart of violets goes - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Violet energy ingots - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"

The violet wakes in March - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

In that vast hollow of violet air - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

In a violet twilight of virtues and sins - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

Brilliant among violets - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Through gold rents torn in a violet sky - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Picture Gallery"

Where spring's first violets perished - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

The violet's and the lily's loss - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"

Violets have not refused to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Remembered Critic"

The first violets will bud unseen - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Behold the violet past prime - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"

By violet foam at twilight tost - George Sterling "Duandon"

In the sorrowful greys and muffled violets - Arthur Stringer "Autumn"

A bunch of violets without their roots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

Laertes at his sister's grave bids violets spring - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

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

Gentle violets weeping with the dew - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Keats"

That have no traffic with the violet and primrose - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

The danger in violets - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"


The sea-violet fragile as agate - H.D. "Sea Violet"


Beside the violet-crested spring - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"


Violet-shadows to haunt the shade - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]


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