Potential Titles: Perfume
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somethingdarkerSurrounded with perfume and beauty untold - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
A vial half-full of harsh perfume - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
And Odin's daughters breath distilled perfumes - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Perfumes herself with myrrh - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited
Cast elusive perfume on each hour - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"
The invisible recklessness of perfume - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"
Perfumed with a thousand years - Willa Cather "London Roses"
Perfumes, in hawthorn boughs distilled - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"
Like a lotus in perfumed repose - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
His perfume in the sun - Hilda Conkling "Only Morning-Glory That Flowered"
That have beauty but no perfume - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
Grief a perfume lodged in our throats - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
A gesture of immaculate perfume - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
The maroon perfume of the chocolate cosmos - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Tropical birds and rare perfumes - Julia C.R. Dorr "Maud and Madge"
Rich spice-fields and perfumed sands - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
Her strange synthetic perfumes - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land II: A Game of Chess"
Have drunk the night's perfumes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
And add a perfume to our dust - William Habington "To Castara. The Reward of Innocent Love"
The crack of a perfumed nightmare - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Lend to the gale a rich perfume - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
And drink my fill of their perfumes - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "When June Comes"
Where the dead shop for perfumes - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"
Full of winy perfume and mystical yearning - William D. Howells "Clement"
Shaking out honey, treading perfume - Jean Ingelow "Divided"
Ten square feet of haunting perfume - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"
Brushed with someone else's perfume - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Wafts perfume to pride - Sir William Jones "An Ode: in Imitation of Alcaeus"
Would give you whole fields of wild perfume - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"
Sweet with their timeless perfume - Ted Kooser "Mother"
With perfume of shy grief - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley
As perfume clings to wounded flowers - George Martin "Hallowe'en in Canada"
Moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"
To be again fury and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Dressed in immense perfume - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Like roses made of whips and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Those wreaths of brilliance and perfume - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Perfumed the kingdom of kitchens - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The green perfume of the vineyard - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Smell of Firewood" transl. by Mark Strand
The perfumed luxuries of summer - Linda Pastan "The Serpent to Eve"
Fanned by perfume from fruitful miles - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
With a nostalgia so perfumed by misery - David St. John "Beeches"
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"
And turn the skies to perfume - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The insistent perfume of plain water - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"
Splendid summer and perfume and pride - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Lift your perfumed thoughts aloft - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
Where mint and jasmine lace their perfumes - Ocean Vuong "Kissing in Vietnamese"
A fresh carnation to remember her perfume - Wan Ts'u "Floating Narcissus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
To bite the haunch of some passing perfume - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"
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A vial half-full of harsh perfume - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
And Odin's daughters breath distilled perfumes - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Perfumes herself with myrrh - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited
Cast elusive perfume on each hour - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"
The invisible recklessness of perfume - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"
Perfumed with a thousand years - Willa Cather "London Roses"
Perfumes, in hawthorn boughs distilled - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"
Like a lotus in perfumed repose - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
His perfume in the sun - Hilda Conkling "Only Morning-Glory That Flowered"
That have beauty but no perfume - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
Grief a perfume lodged in our throats - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
A gesture of immaculate perfume - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
The maroon perfume of the chocolate cosmos - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Tropical birds and rare perfumes - Julia C.R. Dorr "Maud and Madge"
Rich spice-fields and perfumed sands - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
Her strange synthetic perfumes - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land II: A Game of Chess"
Have drunk the night's perfumes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
And add a perfume to our dust - William Habington "To Castara. The Reward of Innocent Love"
The crack of a perfumed nightmare - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Lend to the gale a rich perfume - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
And drink my fill of their perfumes - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "When June Comes"
Where the dead shop for perfumes - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"
Full of winy perfume and mystical yearning - William D. Howells "Clement"
Shaking out honey, treading perfume - Jean Ingelow "Divided"
Ten square feet of haunting perfume - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"
Brushed with someone else's perfume - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Wafts perfume to pride - Sir William Jones "An Ode: in Imitation of Alcaeus"
Would give you whole fields of wild perfume - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"
Sweet with their timeless perfume - Ted Kooser "Mother"
With perfume of shy grief - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley
As perfume clings to wounded flowers - George Martin "Hallowe'en in Canada"
Moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"
To be again fury and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Dressed in immense perfume - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Like roses made of whips and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Those wreaths of brilliance and perfume - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Perfumed the kingdom of kitchens - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The green perfume of the vineyard - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Smell of Firewood" transl. by Mark Strand
The perfumed luxuries of summer - Linda Pastan "The Serpent to Eve"
Fanned by perfume from fruitful miles - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
With a nostalgia so perfumed by misery - David St. John "Beeches"
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"
And turn the skies to perfume - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The insistent perfume of plain water - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"
Splendid summer and perfume and pride - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Lift your perfumed thoughts aloft - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
Where mint and jasmine lace their perfumes - Ocean Vuong "Kissing in Vietnamese"
A fresh carnation to remember her perfume - Wan Ts'u "Floating Narcissus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
To bite the haunch of some passing perfume - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"
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