Potential Titles: Pearl
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somethingdarkerNo food but these gray mosses, no drink but pearls of rain - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
A pearl dissolves into winter's mood - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
A ceiling of amber, a pavement of pearl - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"
If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Pearls strung on Life's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Friend on Her Birthday"
Pearls of the outer sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Unseen Mermaids' pearly song - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"
Blurry pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
Where pearls of joy keep bubbling up - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"
Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Richard Bruce "Cavalier" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Pearl ships upon a sapphire sea - F. O. Call "The Answer"
Bordered with broken pearls - F. O. Call "Omnipresence"
Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Pearly foam from golden bridles - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
Brighter than jewels or pearl - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Within a craft of pearl and crystal light - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
An eastern star set like a pearl atop a steeple - Nicholas Christopher "Lake Como"
To see the pearl of light - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"
A great pale apple of silver and pearl - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
Sown the ground with diamond and with pearl - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
As the sea develops pearl and weed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"
Till qualified for pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IV"
Yield her moat of pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love IX: Possession"
My shoes would overflow with pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIX: By the Sea"
Little I could care for pearls - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life I: Real Riches"
Golden oriflames and tents of pearl - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Every pearl in the world releases its oyster - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Fetch a pearl from the well - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani
Drink only the milk and eat pearls - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"
A trove of pearls and stones - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
Bastions fair of coral, and pearl - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"
Pearls command the sky in hushes - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
The city of gems and pearls of light - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
A precious pearl that will not leave the oyster - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"
Distil those pearly tears to scents - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
Hoards his pearls of frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "October"
Pointing the way to the pearly everlasting - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"
A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Decked with pearls and paved with sapphires - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Make believe mushrooms are pearls - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
The delicate pearl and the adamantine jewel - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Behind thy pearly veils opaque, mysterious woof - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
His promise of gold and of pearl - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"
The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
From passion's impregnable pearl - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (12)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Make each tear a pearl - Francis Neilson "Hebe"
Mirrored in the pearly dew - Francis Neilson "Sweet Face, I See Thee Shine"
In a cradle of aggressive pearl - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"
Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"
Golconda's pearls and diamonds rich - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Pearls of acid advice - Grace Paley "I Invited"
As if pearls to flowers were grown - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Pearls of thought to string for thee - Percie "Lines [Ask me not with simple grace]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.436, 8 May 1852]
Little pearls falling on a plate of jade - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
All with pearl and ruby glowing - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
A shiver riveted with a mouth full of pearls - Sina Queyras "Years"
An atom cast in the pearly gray - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Sharks in an ocean of mermaids and pearls - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"
The gates are ivory set with pearls - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Johnny's By-Low Song"
Strands of pearls on a silver vase - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. I" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Each hour a pearl - Anon. "The Rosary"
Sped on the Great Meridian for jetty pearls - Sir Ronald Ross "Ariel and the Hippopotamus: Dedicated to the Rural Magnates"
Pearls of white enchantment I bestrew - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
With chains of shackled pearls and bands of foam - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
The pearl of matchless Prudence drew - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"
A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"
The pearled chaplet of spring - Wallace Stevens "The Rock II: The Poem as Icon"
As a seashell spawns a pearl - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 5: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The pearls in the part of her hair - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
In a courtyard of emeralds and pearls - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 101: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
I am grateful for the two pearls you offer - Tchang Tsi "A Loyal Wife" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson
Precious beads of hope are pearled on each sorrow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
Pearled on each sorrow through the world - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen
In the lake are black pearls set in amethyst - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Dropped like pearls of melody - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
Harboring bright pearls in mud and sand - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Blackthorn petals pearl the breeze - Mary Webb "Green Rain"
A silver string to pearls of sun - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"
The self stripped of alimonies, stripped of pearls - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
A polished pearl of light above - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
Landscapes drawn in pearly monotones - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Bartered forty summers for black pearls - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
The pearls in the soul of my sea - Melike Ziyawudun "Top Secret" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"
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A pearl dissolves into winter's mood - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
A ceiling of amber, a pavement of pearl - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"
If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Pearls strung on Life's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Friend on Her Birthday"
Pearls of the outer sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Unseen Mermaids' pearly song - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"
Blurry pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
Where pearls of joy keep bubbling up - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"
Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Richard Bruce "Cavalier" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Pearl ships upon a sapphire sea - F. O. Call "The Answer"
Bordered with broken pearls - F. O. Call "Omnipresence"
Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Pearly foam from golden bridles - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
Brighter than jewels or pearl - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Within a craft of pearl and crystal light - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
An eastern star set like a pearl atop a steeple - Nicholas Christopher "Lake Como"
To see the pearl of light - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"
A great pale apple of silver and pearl - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
Sown the ground with diamond and with pearl - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
As the sea develops pearl and weed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"
Till qualified for pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IV"
Yield her moat of pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love IX: Possession"
My shoes would overflow with pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIX: By the Sea"
Little I could care for pearls - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life I: Real Riches"
Golden oriflames and tents of pearl - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Every pearl in the world releases its oyster - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Fetch a pearl from the well - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani
Drink only the milk and eat pearls - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"
A trove of pearls and stones - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
Bastions fair of coral, and pearl - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"
Pearls command the sky in hushes - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
The city of gems and pearls of light - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
A precious pearl that will not leave the oyster - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"
Distil those pearly tears to scents - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
Hoards his pearls of frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "October"
Pointing the way to the pearly everlasting - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"
A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Decked with pearls and paved with sapphires - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Make believe mushrooms are pearls - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
The delicate pearl and the adamantine jewel - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Behind thy pearly veils opaque, mysterious woof - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
His promise of gold and of pearl - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"
The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
From passion's impregnable pearl - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (12)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Make each tear a pearl - Francis Neilson "Hebe"
Mirrored in the pearly dew - Francis Neilson "Sweet Face, I See Thee Shine"
In a cradle of aggressive pearl - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"
Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"
Golconda's pearls and diamonds rich - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Pearls of acid advice - Grace Paley "I Invited"
As if pearls to flowers were grown - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Pearls of thought to string for thee - Percie "Lines [Ask me not with simple grace]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.436, 8 May 1852]
Little pearls falling on a plate of jade - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
All with pearl and ruby glowing - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
A shiver riveted with a mouth full of pearls - Sina Queyras "Years"
An atom cast in the pearly gray - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Sharks in an ocean of mermaids and pearls - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"
The gates are ivory set with pearls - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Johnny's By-Low Song"
Strands of pearls on a silver vase - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. I" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Each hour a pearl - Anon. "The Rosary"
Sped on the Great Meridian for jetty pearls - Sir Ronald Ross "Ariel and the Hippopotamus: Dedicated to the Rural Magnates"
Pearls of white enchantment I bestrew - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
With chains of shackled pearls and bands of foam - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
The pearl of matchless Prudence drew - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"
A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"
The pearled chaplet of spring - Wallace Stevens "The Rock II: The Poem as Icon"
As a seashell spawns a pearl - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 5: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The pearls in the part of her hair - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
In a courtyard of emeralds and pearls - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 101: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
I am grateful for the two pearls you offer - Tchang Tsi "A Loyal Wife" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson
Precious beads of hope are pearled on each sorrow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
Pearled on each sorrow through the world - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen
In the lake are black pearls set in amethyst - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Dropped like pearls of melody - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
Harboring bright pearls in mud and sand - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Blackthorn petals pearl the breeze - Mary Webb "Green Rain"
A silver string to pearls of sun - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"
The self stripped of alimonies, stripped of pearls - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
A polished pearl of light above - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
Landscapes drawn in pearly monotones - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Bartered forty summers for black pearls - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
The pearls in the soul of my sea - Melike Ziyawudun "Top Secret" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"
Navigation Links:
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