Potential Titles: Pluck

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Plucked quick in June's surrender - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

Each petal I plucked so gently - Diannely Antigua "I Buy My Monster Roses"

Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

Language plucked from history's catalogue - Russell Brakefield "Florist's Apprentice, Age 19"

Plucks the scrap from pride - George Crabbe "The Village"

Exile like a parrot plucked bald - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Tempts Medusa"

Reached arms to pluck the moon - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

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

Dandelion seeds plucked from the breeze - Lore Graham "Absence"

Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

That plucks its joy in the shadow of death's wing - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Enshrouded in plucked yew - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

With suicidal guitarists plucking sunrise - Myronn Hardy "To the Linear"

Plucks the stars from night's blue vault - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVIII"

Plucked from the roses of your days - Victor Hugo "More Strong Than Time" transl. by Andrew Lang

Offer you a dowry of plucked lotus - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

Pluck from the tree of the years - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 2"

Pluck at the vulnerable pattern - Ruth Lechlitner "Connecticut Countryside"

Plucked with the patience of herons - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

that plucked the jewels in my heart - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

Plucked this herb of grace for you - James Russell Lowell "With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete"

Pluck live rabbits from between their lips - John Masefield "King Cole"

Or pluck one pang of sorrow - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"

Plucked the sanguine flower of pain - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"

A violin plucked with a hacksaw - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Roses plucked in June - Louis J. McQuilland "With Bertha Up the River"

Might pluck an angel from the spheres - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Pluck apart capillaries to weave my cradle - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

Pluck your berries harsh and crude - John Milton "Lycidas"

Plucked entirely in harmonics - Hoa Nguyen "Learning the Dan Bau"

Pluck clean the vine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"

A deep quiet plucked by firecrackers - Naomi Shihab Nye "New Year"

Plucking poppies for your slumber - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"

Teeth plucked from howling jaws - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"

Pluck the rain from clouds - Herbert Randall "White Gulls"

Plucked grass in the dark - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Plucks the purple plums and spills the cherries on the grass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

To pluck me as an unripe fruit of treason - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Could pluck it from the air with my teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

Plucked bitterest fruit to give - Christina Rossetti "Eve"

Pluck up mountains by the roots - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Pluck out the light of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Plucked from the snow in spring - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"

Plucked a flame from off a tree - Leonora Speyer "October Trees"

To pluck that flower of doom - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"

Who once saved me a sunflower to pluck - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Pythons and boa constrictors plucked from a gorgon's scalp - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Plucking the feathers from the wings of peace - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

For ragged fancies to pluck and taste - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

Plucks dark iris from the rippling shallows - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Hoped to pluck the fruits of life - Tso Ssu "The Scholar in the Narrow Street" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Plucked them stars out of the sky - Katharine Tynan "A Song of Christmas"

A garland of buds plucked from the camphorweed - Divya Victor "Blood/Soil"

Children plucked each treasure - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"


The park is winter-plucked - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"


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