Potential Titles: Silk
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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"
Silkworm.
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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"
Silkworm.
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