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Dream of flying lift a marble bird - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"

Long shadows under the marble arches - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"

The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]

Through marbled gold and green - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"

Misaligned marbles worthy of Elgin - Mary Jo Bang "A Tour of the March Equinox"

Where the marble fountains weep - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

The deep heart of a black marble - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited

A riddle basking under its marble - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady I"

Where poppies heap the marble vats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Dance and sing down the steep marble stairs - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

On a marble pillar in the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Whose marble flowers bloom - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

And cave deep into the marble snow - Annie Finch "Frozen In"

I build a marble Rome, I give it to the wind - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

The sculptor saw the god in marble - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

Poised in marble thought - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"

The many-tinctured veins of precious marble - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

What trophied marble could record - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

Aisles with walls like marble foam - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

Blue crystals frothing on marble front steps - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"

The music of those marbles - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

A marble made of hot pink plastic - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

Kiss the marble and the gold - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

The marble walls of men's cold hearts - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Marble halls and dirty stairs - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Balance marbles on their fingertips - John Masefield "King Cole"

Patrolling a kingdom of marble slabs - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Collect marbles inside of mason jars - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

Fell in marble precipice of white - R.M.S. Pasley "The Diver"

To persuade iron and fire and marble - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

To marble carry this regret - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"

Marble mornings through the slate of evening - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"

Glass marbles under my skin - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"

Carved out of marble clouds - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

As though marble should be pithed with flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Made marble blossom in quarries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

Roses thrown on marble stairs - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Gift of God"

The wreck of their marble glory lies - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Deserted streets of marble halls - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

A cloud of granite and marble light - Tom Sleigh "The Parallel Cathedral"

Fills like sand between glass marbles - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"

Whose inlaid marbles mock the flowers - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Dropped into a cold marble bowl of thought - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"

Amid a marble solitude - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

washing their marbles in the vestry - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"


With marble-dust and vitriol - "Bogus Champagne" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]


Till the marble-stone was rent and riven - "Young Svejdal" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier


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