Potential Titles: Willow
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somethingdarkerTill the red rose blooms on the willow tree - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
For the willows' wind-blown hair - Willa Cather "Fides Spes"
Above the spot the willows weep - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Feel the willow's tender kiss - Benjamin Copeland "The Meadow Air Is Sweet"
A cradle of gold on the bough of the willow - "The Cradle of Gold" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
o'er whose night three willows wail - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"
From the willow-stitched islands - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Raft of uprooted willow - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
The yellow willows waving slow - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"
When the floods are silver under willow - John Drinkwater "May Garden"
My thoughts are willow branches already broken - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"
The grey willow that danced to the moon - Goethe "The Erl-King" transl. by Sir Walter Scott
Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"
Our church the alleyed willow boughs - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
Black willow shadows for walls - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Lingers in the shade of bending willows - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"
Leaves them on the willows hung - George Moses Horton "Memory"
Throw pebbles into the willows - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
Tangled in the hair of willows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
Long-legged Naiads appear in the willows - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"
While the willow trails its delicate amber - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Meet him on the far side of the willow - Mihee Kim "time travel"
Blake's angel parting willow leaves - Stephen Kuusisto "Only Bread, Only Light"
Spun from the moon and woven dark with willow - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"
A mist of light stains the willows - Li Ching-chao "Tune: Endless Union" transl. by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Glinting through the willow-boughs - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley
Black willows and stars - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
Within the water where the willows sleep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
From the rustle of the willow - George Martin "Laleet"
The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"
Running clouds behind hands of willows - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Mistook the willow tree for a home - Joseph Millar "One Day"
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank - John Milton "Sabrina"
A coiling glitter of willowy streams - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Bind my brow with willow - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Strands of willow in my pelt - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"
Asleep beneath the willow's umbrella - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"
The cool descent of the willow's branches - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"
Wand cut from the willow tree - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Three Child-Songs II: Willow Wand"
Willows plunging their bloodless roots - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"
Tall crying in the willow reeds - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"
Silver tongues of waters where the willows blush - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"
Till the wizard willows waved in the wind - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"
Met at morning by the willowed river - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Slant willows by the flooded bog - George Santayana "Cape Cod"
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Makes the willow shiver in the sun - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
The full fountain and the willow-tree - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "In the Still, Star-Lit Night"
Willows whiten, aspens quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Below the willows while they wept - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Tie the boat to the willow-trees - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Bound him with wythes of the willow and fir - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"
On the wrinkled stream the willows lean - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
A willow when summer is over - William Carlos Williams "Willow Poem"
Only broke the arms of willows - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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For the willows' wind-blown hair - Willa Cather "Fides Spes"
Above the spot the willows weep - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Feel the willow's tender kiss - Benjamin Copeland "The Meadow Air Is Sweet"
A cradle of gold on the bough of the willow - "The Cradle of Gold" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
o'er whose night three willows wail - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"
From the willow-stitched islands - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Raft of uprooted willow - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
The yellow willows waving slow - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"
When the floods are silver under willow - John Drinkwater "May Garden"
My thoughts are willow branches already broken - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"
The grey willow that danced to the moon - Goethe "The Erl-King" transl. by Sir Walter Scott
Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"
Our church the alleyed willow boughs - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
Black willow shadows for walls - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Lingers in the shade of bending willows - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"
Leaves them on the willows hung - George Moses Horton "Memory"
Throw pebbles into the willows - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
Tangled in the hair of willows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
Long-legged Naiads appear in the willows - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"
While the willow trails its delicate amber - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Meet him on the far side of the willow - Mihee Kim "time travel"
Blake's angel parting willow leaves - Stephen Kuusisto "Only Bread, Only Light"
Spun from the moon and woven dark with willow - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"
A mist of light stains the willows - Li Ching-chao "Tune: Endless Union" transl. by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Glinting through the willow-boughs - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley
Black willows and stars - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
Within the water where the willows sleep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
From the rustle of the willow - George Martin "Laleet"
The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"
Running clouds behind hands of willows - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Mistook the willow tree for a home - Joseph Millar "One Day"
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank - John Milton "Sabrina"
A coiling glitter of willowy streams - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Bind my brow with willow - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Strands of willow in my pelt - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"
Asleep beneath the willow's umbrella - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"
The cool descent of the willow's branches - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"
Wand cut from the willow tree - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Three Child-Songs II: Willow Wand"
Willows plunging their bloodless roots - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"
Tall crying in the willow reeds - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"
Silver tongues of waters where the willows blush - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"
Till the wizard willows waved in the wind - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"
Met at morning by the willowed river - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Slant willows by the flooded bog - George Santayana "Cape Cod"
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Makes the willow shiver in the sun - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
The full fountain and the willow-tree - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "In the Still, Star-Lit Night"
Willows whiten, aspens quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Below the willows while they wept - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Tie the boat to the willow-trees - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Bound him with wythes of the willow and fir - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"
On the wrinkled stream the willows lean - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
A willow when summer is over - William Carlos Williams "Willow Poem"
Only broke the arms of willows - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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