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Drink our dreams like milk - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Dead Men" transl. by Allan Francovich

The milk of their laughter - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Amber wine mellowed to milk - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

Sugar-loaves from Paradise enriched our bread and milk - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Pawning our milky eyes for any clues - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

One drop of milk from the bright Milky Way - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

And the truck-master's pail holds unmystified milk - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

And drink to them in rum and milk - Charles Dalmon "Early Morning Meadow Song"

A barge of plywood and empty milk cartons - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Milk we drew at the barrier of Time - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Wax burned in the land of milk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

The full night's milk - Andrew Feld "Opium Poppies I"

Drink only the milk and eat pearls - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"

Gathers milk from the dragon's nest - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"

That sours the Milk of Life and blasts the nascent Flowers - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

We will prepare you chai with cinnamon, sugar, ginger, peppercorns, milk - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]

Milk contributing to the mesh - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"

Sap that curdles milk - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"

A jug of bloody milk, poured - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"

The milk of earth, the honey of dust - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

Silver shavings whitened with milky oil - Philip Levine "Drum"

Diluting song in milk and water - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

All of honey and milk the air is - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

When the waves are mingled milk and fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Bitter orange and almond milk - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

A yoke of honey in a glass of cooling milk - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

Love and anger and white-gold milk - Maggie Nelson "The World"

The broken halves of a milky sun - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

From them no milk of kindness flow - James Parkerson "An Address to the Norfolk Yeoman on the Importation of Foreign Grain"

Weaving the universe out of milky strings of chaos - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

Who shares the milk of regret - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Only camel's milk to drink - Rumi "Someone Digging in the Ground" transl. by Coleman Barks

pour dragon milk into paper cups - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"

In the vespers' milky hush - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"

dreaming of soap suds & milk - Danez Smith "& even the black guy's profile reads 'sorry, no black guys'"

And webs as white as milk - George Sterling "Sails"

Fresh milk from a cup of leaves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 132: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Fondling the milky spring wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson

A drop of ink in a dish of milk - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"

Water and milk in such strange ratios - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

The galaxy as a fable of spilled milk - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

New milk and ale for drink - "Wooing of Etain: Mider's Call to Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Had bathed my burning eyes with milk - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Only the milk makes sense - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

The milky dreams of seeds - Yvonne Zipter "Seeds"


All the sweet buttermilk watered the plain - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Milk and Honey

Pillows made from breath captured in milk cartons - Kyle Dargan "Olympic Drive" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

White and milk-warm sphinx - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"

Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"

A be-jeweled lair of pear-milk for the deer - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Your body made full with starmilk - Sara Eliza Johnson "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"


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