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Potential Titles: Lily

Lilies the wind wanders over - F.D. Ashburn "Song [You roses that lean away]"

And the lily discover her bosom of snow - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

The evening's hair all laced with lily - Mary Jo Bang "Z Is for Zed at the End"

The stricken lily puts the rose to shame - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

our little green where lilies were - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"

In this house of lightning & dust - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

With the chill and heartless lilies - Paul Bewsher "To Hilda"

The golden lilies afloat with the dragon-fly - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

Morning run among the lilies and the rowdy waterfowl - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 2: A psalm of Isaak, accompanied by baying hounds"

Rocks like lilies in a storm - C.S. Calverley "Waiting"

Around them the lily and pomegranate wreath - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Spread and drown as lilies do - Leonard Cohen "The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004"

Lilies on every doorstep - Hilda Conkling "Easter"

Leaving a scent of lilies on the air - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

Smouldering lilies unconsumed - John Davidson "London"

Ice where the lily bloomed - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"

A white lily with seven blooms thereon - Walter de la Mare "The Three Beggars"

As a dove picking lilies - Trace Howard DePass "[th(e)reat] --> siege engine"

Whose scarves are lilies blowing - E.C. Dickinson "River Song"

The scented dew long cupped in lilies - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

A shepherd seeking lilies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

Lilies plucked and set like stars - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "The Ancient Sacrifice"

That Beauty lives though lilies die - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Where a shy lily half hides - John Gould Fletcher "Two Ladies Contrasted"

Like a lily from a quiet water - Zona Gale "Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills"

A garden lamped with lily bells - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Upon a dreaming lily - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Roses white and lilies tender - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

As the bee forsakes the lily - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"

A pool beset with lilies - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"

During the rose and lily's reign - Hafiz "The Divan XXIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Learn the peace of lilies - Hazel Hall "Before Quiet"

Can quiet the lily abloom - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"

Forsake the verdant prison of her lily peers - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Crowned queen above the lilies - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Of lilies dead and turned to roses - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"

The singing thrush and lily know - Helen Hunt Jackson "August"

The gold lilies and their shadows - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

As lilies to a pleading wind - Lionel Johnson "The Petition"

The pantry full of lilies - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Spread the gossip to the lilies - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

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

Along the beds of awakened lilies - Stephen Leggett "Visiting a Greenhouse in Lent"

Into the mesh of risen lilies - Stephen Leggett "Visiting a Greenhouse in Lent"

The lions and roses and lilies of love - Vachel Lindsay "For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines"

The lilies of the mind - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Betray the secrets of the lily - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Secret"

A highway where pale lilies blow - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Fields of lilies sharper than razors - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

The King who loved the lilies - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"

Gave him passion's lily cup - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"

Strange lilies bloomed in lightless cells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Kin to the idle lilies - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

And like the three-forked lightning - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

A lily crowned with powdered gold - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"

To spread these lilies at thy feet - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"

Raise lilies to the skyfields - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

White lilies by the gray hearthstone - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"

In twisted braids of Lillies knitting - John Milton "Sabrina"

When they replaced lilies and lemon trees - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Darkness enters the face of the lily - Mary Oliver "The Lily"

Lilies turning from the wind - Mary Oliver "Work"

And the gentle lilies overflow - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

And lilies turned to light - Walter S. Percy "Two Frames"

The lily newly opened - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

The bells of the altar lilies - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Twilight Fancy"

From which she spins the lily - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

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]

To mingle with thy laurelled lily - John Reade "To Louis Frechette"

With soft notes of the arisen lilies - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

Over the whispering congregation of the lilies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

The lilies braced their narrow shoulders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

Lilies unwithering, magnolias of iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

With naked lilies in white truce - Lola Ridge "Lull Before Storm"

Where the lily leans o'er an amber stream - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

The spirit of lilies in a leafy place - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"

Soul of the lily flower - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"

Beneath green leaves and lilies white - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

Lilies that refuse to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Face"

And the lily forget the desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"

Among the lilies lapped in the tender light - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Three lilies in her hand - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Lilies, just over-proud for grace - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

The golden lightning of the sunken sun - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

Angels of rain and lightning - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Lilies of celestial gold - George Sterling "Dawn from a Western Mountain"

That sinks upon a lily's breast - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"

The lilies of the moon - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"

And like a lily broke - George Sterling "The Rack"

The lily lifts its creamy cup - Alfred B. Street "The Upper Saranac"

Brought a lily-white doe - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lady Clare"

The wild bells of lilies ringing - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Gathering the cold grey lilies of the stars - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

The lily's throat to the hummingbird - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Fling ourselves round with dust lilies - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

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

Far from the rose and the lily - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

Walking up inside the lilies - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"


Robed in red and sea-lilies - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"


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