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Grass completely enrobed in ice - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

Enrobed in morning's mounted fire - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"


The fox who wears the robe of men that rule - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XCI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Give a queenly air to this crimson robe of mine - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"

Quiet Jews robed in earth and light - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

May come to robe thy brow in sadness - J.H.B. "Stanzas [Thine is the hour of joy]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

And all things robed in shadow - Park Benjamin "Sonnet [Loved of my soul! I seek in vain for thee]"

Robed in fires of hell - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"

Hailed the purple robe of air - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

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

Our monks go robed in rain and snow - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Robed in the livery of spring - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Robes of angels touch these heights - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

With robe and girdle laid aside - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Full-veiled in peerless robes of light - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

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

The wet grey robes of the hours - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

On a robe of marten skins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"

Old robes worn for new beginnings - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"

When earth lay robed in resurrection bloom - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

The white mists robed and throned her - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Robed in moonlight's ancient gold - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"

His ample robes on the wind unrolled - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Touched the hem of the dark mountain's robe - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

The skirt of night's descending robe - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

To make a robe you'll wear ten thousand miles - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson

Robed in her pride she comes - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

With an ermine robe around her - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Icicle"

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

Robed by the full moon - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Offer you warm robes if you arrive in winter - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]

Should wear the martyr's robe of flame - John Keble "Fire"

Shake the fading stars from her robes of light - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

The sun gems their pale robes with diamonds - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

The thistle sheds its royal robes - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Rainbows for robes, wind for horses - Li Po "Song of a Dream Visit to T'ien-mu: Farewell to Those I Leave Behind" transl. by Burton Watson

They reign in robes of magic round me - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: Reflection"

In her robe of folden sunshine - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Indian Summer"

In his robe of falling stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"

Strange traditions drag their spectral robes - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

And the rich robe of Autumn withdrawn - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"

Robed in all her beauty sere - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"

When the earth was clad with her robe of buds and flowers - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

In robes of woven diamond dust - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

Her jewelled robes, her granite draperies - Samuel McCoy "A Sweetheart: Thompson Street"

In robes of smouldering flame - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"

That robe of printed hours - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Elysian creatures robed in fleecy light - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Shedding desire's heavy robes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Disbelief"

Since night's robes trailed Eden's sky - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Danced in clinging robes of Light - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"

Robes of sorrow - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

A thousand starlets glisten in the robe of night - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Habited in robes of light - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Winter weaving from flakes a robe - Rumi "I Saw the Winter Weaving" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie

The Waters lace her robes with silver cords - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Weaving robes of slumber for her mistress - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

All stern and robed in gloom - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

Robes of asbestos do we wear - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

In robes of gold and crimson fire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

Lying, robed in snowy white - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"

The skinning gales unpin the winter's robes - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"

Where the heath laughed to heaven in robe of green - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

Robed in aerial amethyst - Henry van Dyke "Sierra Madre"

Setting out wearing robes of clouds - Wang An-Shih "On this side, flood-strewn" transl. by David Hinton

Spring tides robed in rain - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

Trailing the robes of the immortal woe - John Hall Wheelock "Tchaikovsky: Fifth Symphony"

Shall wear their robes of praise - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Dressed in your robe of experience - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"

A false prophet robed in attitude and labels - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"


Day's death-robes glitter fair - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]


Disrobe in night's cold maw - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Uncrowned, disrobed, bereft - Winifred Welles "Exile"


Gray-robed and cold-breathed and frozen-eyed - Lucy H. Hooper "Winter" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873]


And smirch-robed Justice feebly scold at Crime - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]


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