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Built of silk and cement - Elmaz Abinader "Arsenal"

Glowing forms in silk embroideries - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Receiving the silk drip of sleep - Mary Jo Bang "And No Signs Will Mark the Midpoint's Passing"

The brighter silk of summers past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"

A single bird would rip it like silk - Ellen Bass "Any Common Destination"

Weaving glass and silk into a dream - Stephen Vincent Benet "Ghost of a Lunatic Asylum"

Receive the kiss of silk - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"

Lined with the silk of our dreams - Anthony Butts "Triptych"

In dazzling robes of silk and gold - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from Beneath" transl. by Frank Sewall

The dunes were lit like ancient silk - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

Silk braided between her fingers - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

The flowers, orchids, all made of silk - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Mimic flowers from out my silk and velvet garden - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

A robe of curious silk - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

Knit her a verb of silk and dew - Lois P. Jones "Between Fulmination and Adoration"

Grey silk sound pulled out by hooks - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"

Tied up her sleeves with ribbons of silk - "King Erik and the Scornful Maid" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Seeing the faces of silk - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

Sunlight climbing a thread of spider's silk - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

Spider's silk in a gentle breeze - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

Ermined floors and tangled seas of silk sheets - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Passion of the silk - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

A walking stick of silk - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

In the bloody silk of the poppy - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XXXIX" transl. by William O'Daly

Spun silk of mercy - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

Had dressed me in silk to meet him - Dorothy Parker "The Trifler"

A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Hoisted up their sails of silk all on the golden mast - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Your hands of oak and silk - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Undulant rustlings of oncoming silk - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

A dais of silk and down - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

Their silk ties and their secret economies - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

The silk pavilions of the sea - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"

Silk zigzagged to flannel - Richard Solomon "Possession I: Blanky"

Such a fire of silks and laces - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

Wads of silk stretched in lengths - Saheed Sunday "Fluorescence"

Full of looking-glass and silk - D.A.E. Wallace "The Beggar-Maiden"

Whiter than silk and redder than thread - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

The incense and silk of memory - Jay Wright "Sasa"

To scrub away the silk threads of pain - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu


Silken harlots, velvet wine - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

The lustrous silken veiled faces of the water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Breaks through an opaque silken sky - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Mallards carved in oily silken water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

braille on silken canvas - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

Molten over toughened silken hide - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"

Silken mittens soft and quaint - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Her First Season"

In the silken light - Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Tony Lopez "Sea Holly"

Wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Poet"

A silken web of dreams and joys - Olive Custance "Beauty"

In silken talk with wind - Zona Gale "A Meeting"

The spider's silken whisper from its web - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

Quivering on their silken threads - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

Silken mat for Saturn's feet - John Keats "Hyperion"

A silken thread of my own hand's weaving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

The silken skirts of Spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

With crowns and silken spoils - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

Too great for silken fetters - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"

Knits the silken bond of peace - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"

The silken sad uncertain rustling - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

Meadows sown with silken grass - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"

Upon the silken silence of his feet - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Snow with its devilish and silken whisper - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

That loitered with silken slippers - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

Silken slippers upon the pinnacles - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

The silken weavings of our afternoons - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

A silken basket catching our paper airplanes - Bryce A. Taylor "Cartilage"

Silken tissue spun from the blue distance - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Silken mists above shining trees - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"

no less binding for being silken - Monica Youn "Blueacre"


A tangled mess of silky string - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Cement themselves to the silky water - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

The white and silky trumpet of nothing - Mary Oliver "At the Shore"

A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"


Dropping brambles and silky-spite - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"


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