Potential Titles: Crown
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somethingdarkerWaiting for my lost crown - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Night is crowned with dreams - Etel Adnan "Night"
My carrion crown finally slackening - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
Crown him with gems and roses - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"
Rocks adorned with crowns of fallen branches - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Whose crown was points of flame - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
To crown the hills with bliss - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
A glorious crown adorns - "Antiphon" transl. by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
Triumphant wear a crown of light - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"
The demon's crown of woe - Benjamin West Ball "Lucifer Redux"
Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
To crown the brow of day - Cora C. Bass "Even-tide"
Crowned your hall with granite thorns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
With riches enough to purchase a crown - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"
Crowned with leaf and bud - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"
The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Steady strife for a deathless crown - Vera M. Brittain "That Which Remaineth"
A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"
My sorrow crowns me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Crowned for vanquishing - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
The brow of art by fancy crowned - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Sonnet"
To crown the soldier's cup - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
Spares not his crown in elemental storms - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Cast crowns for rosaries away - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
We crowned her with rosebuds and evergreen - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
To the muse impart the laurel crown - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall
Crowned with her hundred castles - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall
The crown and sword alike relentless - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall
That crowns the upward track - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"
A naked people under a naked crown - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
A crown of flinty spines about the rose - W.R. Childe "The Gothic Rose"
Crowns fit to deck Apollo's brows - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
So crowned with cunning - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]
Had made a crimson crown - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"
I'll make you a crown of the pretty white daisies - "A Comforter" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
Celandines as heavenly crowns - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"
And saints miss their crown - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
To win the crown of all the year - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
And a crown of honey-flowers - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
Crowned with bright berries of the bitter-sweet - Danske Dandridge "The Spirit of the Fall"
What glorious empire crown'd their toils - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
And moonbeams weave a crown - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"
Acid green on the crown of his head - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
The blue-flowers crown of ecstasy - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"
little sisters belong beneath crowns - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Whom angels crowned with grace - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
To crown you glorious - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "To the Negro Farmers of the United States"
On my brow be the crown of the wise - A.E. "Love"
Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
The crown and flower of the world - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"
Fixed the sacred crown inside your sacred court - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
A crown of glittering desire - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Upon her head a crown of gold - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
God's first dream as her crown - Michael Field "Virgo Potens"
One of the leaves in the crown is gold - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
A hundred horizons wearing a thousand crowns - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
A crown of prints in snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"
Wreathed with a crown of diamond frost - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
And I will wager my golden crown - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Had learned to wear the crown of sorrow - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Her crown is jeweled with seven sorrows - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"
Still had hopes my later hours to crown - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"
To crown our devotion - "The Golfer's Garland"
A wreath or crown of mouths - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"
The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Luna, with her star-gemmed, glorious crown - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
The prime and crown of their fleeting years - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Exalt and crown the hour - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"
And saints were casting down their crowns - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Fishers of Men"
The saints all crowned with glory - Frances E.W. Harper "Jamie's Puzzle"
Wear a thornless crown - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIII"
The victors' tents with ivy crown'd - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"
And kept thenceforth the crown conferred - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"
Above the crown of oak and elm - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"
Where hidden stars crown a miraculous dome - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
And he is crowned with the red, red gold - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Crowned queen above the lilies - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Make the savage Czar in terror clutch his crown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
With golden death was crowned - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"
Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"
And a god died at the crown - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Dianthus crowned with hint of cinnamon - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Wearing a steadfast floral crown - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
The blossoms of the New Year's crown - Helen Hunt Jackson "New Year's Morning"
With her cannon as crown - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"
A rose crowned song - Fenton Johnson "Your Soul and Mine"
To whom all crowns of song - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"
A crown of roses and of bay - Lionel Johnson "Men of Assisi"
Whom the vast stars crown - Lionel Johnson "To a Traveller"
With spires and turrets crowned - Sir William Jones "An Ode: in Imitation of Alcaeus"
The rampart's glowing crown - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Sixth: Uma's Espousals" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Crowned with the halo of liberty - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."
Believe a crown of kingfishers - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
A crown, a wound, a consequence of birds - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Cherries falling from the crown of sky - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Crowned and swathed with weed - Archibald Lampman "September"
Crown of spiked green metal - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
With crowns and silken spoils - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
As the carousel twirled its crown of lights - Keith Leonard "Museum"
In many an Old World palace, uneasy sits the crown - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Behead each hollyhock crown - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
By presence of viper and crown - Chip Livingston "San Benito"
Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Crowned Apollo enters in - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
Crowned on the twilight battlefield - Percy MacKaye "Kruppism"
Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"
Aims to smash tradition's crown - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"
Crowned to the full her proud magnificence - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
And crown the spring with fire - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
A lily crowned with powdered gold - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"
Below blackened crowns - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"
An origami frog in a vellum crown - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Weave you crowns of living laurel - Theodore Maynard "L'Envoi"
To build a crown of flames - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Transfixes joy's brief crown - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
A crown of glory from the skies - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Black rock by sunbeams crowned - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
Readings of the crown and sword - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"
Jewels bled from weeping crowns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
With its crown of histories - Alice Meynell "To Antiquity"
Crowns thee lord of an unpurchasable word - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"
Gems that drop from off a Calif's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Bees are dreaming in a blossom's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
The crown the years have brought you - Adam Mickiewicz "On Juda's Cliff" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Stolen gems that decked the Crown - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Crowned with vocal reeds - John Milton "Lycidas"
Studded with stars in belt and crown - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"
Yellow harvest seldom crowned his head - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Don a flower crown for the sacrifice - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Shine as your beloved crown - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"
A shipwrecked horse crowned with slow trees - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A violet with its crown of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
A languid crown of the sea's flowers - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Under the crown of lethargy - Pablo Neruda "Opium in the East" transl. by Alastair Reid
A savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Distilled blood from its crown - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Confirmed the morning glory's crown - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
The crown of the wind - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
With summer's thickest garlands crowned - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
With the growth of awful ages crowned - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
A glittering jewel in virtue's crown - Dorothy Parker "Biographies"
And wear their house as a crown - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"
Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
If she'll crown me with thunder - Kiki Petrosino "Sermon"
Bubbles reflecting an inverse crown - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Inscribed in bubbles reflecting an inverse crown - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"
Every blossom wears a silver crown - Miriam Clark Potter "The March of the Shadows"
Crowned with stars for flowers - John Presland "The Deluge"
Crowned and throned by lightning-legions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Virtue weaves for it a deathless crown - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Scraped from dust to crown our bruises - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Knows not the meaning of a broken crown - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Crowned in the aureole of dawn - M. Regan "The Hollow"
In the crowns like resurrection show - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Crowned me with such pretty poppies - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Or his crown and kingdom, for ever resign - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
To crown your honoured name - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"
Sunbeam for a crown, loam for a throne - R.S. Saha "Kin"
A crown made of this visible sky - Sanai "Energetic Work" transl. by Coleman Barks
Wears a rainbow for a crown - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"
Twenty temples in a granite crown - George Santayana "Avila"
Iron crowns of Ruin and Death be mine - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Let us crown him where he sits apart - Robert W. Service "The Man Who Knew"
And crowns of starry ice - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Crown the pale year weak and new - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Cities under crowns of snow - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"
Fulfilment's crown to visions - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Brows that starry Grief had crowned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Solemnly, crowned as Nero was - Marin Sorescu "Solemnly" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
That wears this hour like a crown - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
And crowns utility with rose - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"
Crowned with trailing plumes of sable - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
The crown of all our hopes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Crowning their victory by loose despair - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
With tinsel crowns put by - George Sterling "The Faun"
That crown his labor done - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
Crowned upon the ashen sun - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Crown of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"
On my brow the iron crown of sorrow - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"
Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
A passion that Time has crowned - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
Crowned with all their moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 106: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Other blazing objects out around its crown - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
From the crowning star of the seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
That crown the north world's head - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Of days without crown - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
The haloes of a holy fool to crown you - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Crown you double-tongued and quicksilver - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
A bloodied clutch of crowns - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
The vine's bright blood shall crown the bowl - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Blinded by a leafy crown - Sara Teasdale "Leaves"
The crown affection weaves and wears - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]
How their Glory me did crown - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
Yet wear a crown of hazy dream - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"
A crown of curious stones - Iris Tree "Flame"
Still wrangled for a crown that lay amid the dust - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"
A crown of shining endurance - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"
With crowning brilliancy and rich rewards untaxed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
With crowns of kelp and frantic purple flowers - Genya Turovskaya "Wisterical"
Eat a crown of lead - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"
Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"
Thy banks with alders crowned - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
Crowns his defeat with light - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Which royally did wear her crown of weeds - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
Their crowns in a straight blaze to nowhere - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"
New generations get crowned and walk away - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
Changed from the spur to the crown - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
The unfading crown of sacrifice - Francis Brett Young "Sonnet [Not only for remembered loveliness]"
Crown us like flowers - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"
All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"
A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"
The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"
Such hopes as time discrowns - Algernon Swinburne "Past Days"
A Halo-crown of vapoured Vortex Rings - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Uncrowned, disrobed, bereft - Winifred Welles "Exile"
Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
In a crown-fire forest blaze - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Crown-jewel of our fame - Benjamin Copeland "Hail to the Chief!"
And ascends flower-crowned to her vernal throne - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Bounty of the grape-crowned year - Caroline D. Swan "Stars of Cheer"
To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore - John Milton "L'Allegro"
If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Of all the rose-crowned year - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Where the sun-crowned souls sit peerless - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
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Night is crowned with dreams - Etel Adnan "Night"
My carrion crown finally slackening - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
Crown him with gems and roses - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"
Rocks adorned with crowns of fallen branches - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Whose crown was points of flame - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
To crown the hills with bliss - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
A glorious crown adorns - "Antiphon" transl. by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
Triumphant wear a crown of light - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"
The demon's crown of woe - Benjamin West Ball "Lucifer Redux"
Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
To crown the brow of day - Cora C. Bass "Even-tide"
Crowned your hall with granite thorns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
With riches enough to purchase a crown - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"
Crowned with leaf and bud - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"
The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Steady strife for a deathless crown - Vera M. Brittain "That Which Remaineth"
A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"
My sorrow crowns me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Crowned for vanquishing - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
The brow of art by fancy crowned - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Sonnet"
To crown the soldier's cup - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
Spares not his crown in elemental storms - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Cast crowns for rosaries away - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
We crowned her with rosebuds and evergreen - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
To the muse impart the laurel crown - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall
Crowned with her hundred castles - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall
The crown and sword alike relentless - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall
That crowns the upward track - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"
A naked people under a naked crown - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
A crown of flinty spines about the rose - W.R. Childe "The Gothic Rose"
Crowns fit to deck Apollo's brows - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
So crowned with cunning - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]
Had made a crimson crown - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"
I'll make you a crown of the pretty white daisies - "A Comforter" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
Celandines as heavenly crowns - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"
And saints miss their crown - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
To win the crown of all the year - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
And a crown of honey-flowers - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
Crowned with bright berries of the bitter-sweet - Danske Dandridge "The Spirit of the Fall"
What glorious empire crown'd their toils - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
And moonbeams weave a crown - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"
Acid green on the crown of his head - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
The blue-flowers crown of ecstasy - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"
little sisters belong beneath crowns - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Whom angels crowned with grace - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
To crown you glorious - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "To the Negro Farmers of the United States"
On my brow be the crown of the wise - A.E. "Love"
Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
The crown and flower of the world - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"
Fixed the sacred crown inside your sacred court - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
A crown of glittering desire - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Upon her head a crown of gold - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
God's first dream as her crown - Michael Field "Virgo Potens"
One of the leaves in the crown is gold - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
A hundred horizons wearing a thousand crowns - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
A crown of prints in snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"
Wreathed with a crown of diamond frost - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
And I will wager my golden crown - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Had learned to wear the crown of sorrow - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Her crown is jeweled with seven sorrows - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"
Still had hopes my later hours to crown - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"
To crown our devotion - "The Golfer's Garland"
A wreath or crown of mouths - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"
The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Luna, with her star-gemmed, glorious crown - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
The prime and crown of their fleeting years - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Exalt and crown the hour - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"
And saints were casting down their crowns - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Fishers of Men"
The saints all crowned with glory - Frances E.W. Harper "Jamie's Puzzle"
Wear a thornless crown - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIII"
The victors' tents with ivy crown'd - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"
And kept thenceforth the crown conferred - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"
Above the crown of oak and elm - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"
Where hidden stars crown a miraculous dome - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
And he is crowned with the red, red gold - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Crowned queen above the lilies - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Make the savage Czar in terror clutch his crown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
With golden death was crowned - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"
Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"
And a god died at the crown - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Dianthus crowned with hint of cinnamon - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Wearing a steadfast floral crown - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
The blossoms of the New Year's crown - Helen Hunt Jackson "New Year's Morning"
With her cannon as crown - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"
A rose crowned song - Fenton Johnson "Your Soul and Mine"
To whom all crowns of song - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"
A crown of roses and of bay - Lionel Johnson "Men of Assisi"
Whom the vast stars crown - Lionel Johnson "To a Traveller"
With spires and turrets crowned - Sir William Jones "An Ode: in Imitation of Alcaeus"
The rampart's glowing crown - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Sixth: Uma's Espousals" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Crowned with the halo of liberty - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."
Believe a crown of kingfishers - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
A crown, a wound, a consequence of birds - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Cherries falling from the crown of sky - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Crowned and swathed with weed - Archibald Lampman "September"
Crown of spiked green metal - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
With crowns and silken spoils - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
As the carousel twirled its crown of lights - Keith Leonard "Museum"
In many an Old World palace, uneasy sits the crown - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Behead each hollyhock crown - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
By presence of viper and crown - Chip Livingston "San Benito"
Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Crowned Apollo enters in - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
Crowned on the twilight battlefield - Percy MacKaye "Kruppism"
Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"
Aims to smash tradition's crown - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"
Crowned to the full her proud magnificence - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
And crown the spring with fire - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
A lily crowned with powdered gold - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"
Below blackened crowns - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"
An origami frog in a vellum crown - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Weave you crowns of living laurel - Theodore Maynard "L'Envoi"
To build a crown of flames - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Transfixes joy's brief crown - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"
A crown of glory from the skies - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Black rock by sunbeams crowned - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
Readings of the crown and sword - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"
Jewels bled from weeping crowns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
With its crown of histories - Alice Meynell "To Antiquity"
Crowns thee lord of an unpurchasable word - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"
Gems that drop from off a Calif's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Bees are dreaming in a blossom's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
The crown the years have brought you - Adam Mickiewicz "On Juda's Cliff" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Stolen gems that decked the Crown - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Crowned with vocal reeds - John Milton "Lycidas"
Studded with stars in belt and crown - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"
Yellow harvest seldom crowned his head - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Don a flower crown for the sacrifice - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Shine as your beloved crown - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"
A shipwrecked horse crowned with slow trees - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A violet with its crown of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
A languid crown of the sea's flowers - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Under the crown of lethargy - Pablo Neruda "Opium in the East" transl. by Alastair Reid
A savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Distilled blood from its crown - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Confirmed the morning glory's crown - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
The crown of the wind - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
With summer's thickest garlands crowned - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
With the growth of awful ages crowned - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
A glittering jewel in virtue's crown - Dorothy Parker "Biographies"
And wear their house as a crown - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"
Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
If she'll crown me with thunder - Kiki Petrosino "Sermon"
Bubbles reflecting an inverse crown - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Inscribed in bubbles reflecting an inverse crown - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"
Every blossom wears a silver crown - Miriam Clark Potter "The March of the Shadows"
Crowned with stars for flowers - John Presland "The Deluge"
Crowned and throned by lightning-legions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Virtue weaves for it a deathless crown - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Scraped from dust to crown our bruises - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Knows not the meaning of a broken crown - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Crowned in the aureole of dawn - M. Regan "The Hollow"
In the crowns like resurrection show - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Crowned me with such pretty poppies - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Or his crown and kingdom, for ever resign - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
To crown your honoured name - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"
Sunbeam for a crown, loam for a throne - R.S. Saha "Kin"
A crown made of this visible sky - Sanai "Energetic Work" transl. by Coleman Barks
Wears a rainbow for a crown - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"
Twenty temples in a granite crown - George Santayana "Avila"
Iron crowns of Ruin and Death be mine - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Let us crown him where he sits apart - Robert W. Service "The Man Who Knew"
And crowns of starry ice - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Crown the pale year weak and new - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Cities under crowns of snow - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"
Fulfilment's crown to visions - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Brows that starry Grief had crowned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Solemnly, crowned as Nero was - Marin Sorescu "Solemnly" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
That wears this hour like a crown - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
And crowns utility with rose - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"
Crowned with trailing plumes of sable - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
The crown of all our hopes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Crowning their victory by loose despair - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
With tinsel crowns put by - George Sterling "The Faun"
That crown his labor done - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
Crowned upon the ashen sun - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Crown of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"
On my brow the iron crown of sorrow - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"
Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
A passion that Time has crowned - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
Crowned with all their moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 106: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Other blazing objects out around its crown - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
From the crowning star of the seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
That crown the north world's head - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Of days without crown - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
The haloes of a holy fool to crown you - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Crown you double-tongued and quicksilver - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
A bloodied clutch of crowns - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
The vine's bright blood shall crown the bowl - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Blinded by a leafy crown - Sara Teasdale "Leaves"
The crown affection weaves and wears - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]
How their Glory me did crown - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
Yet wear a crown of hazy dream - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"
A crown of curious stones - Iris Tree "Flame"
Still wrangled for a crown that lay amid the dust - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"
A crown of shining endurance - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"
With crowning brilliancy and rich rewards untaxed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
With crowns of kelp and frantic purple flowers - Genya Turovskaya "Wisterical"
Eat a crown of lead - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"
Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"
Thy banks with alders crowned - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
Crowns his defeat with light - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Which royally did wear her crown of weeds - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
Their crowns in a straight blaze to nowhere - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"
New generations get crowned and walk away - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
Changed from the spur to the crown - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
The unfading crown of sacrifice - Francis Brett Young "Sonnet [Not only for remembered loveliness]"
Crown us like flowers - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"
All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"
A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"
The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"
Such hopes as time discrowns - Algernon Swinburne "Past Days"
A Halo-crown of vapoured Vortex Rings - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Uncrowned, disrobed, bereft - Winifred Welles "Exile"
Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
In a crown-fire forest blaze - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Crown-jewel of our fame - Benjamin Copeland "Hail to the Chief!"
And ascends flower-crowned to her vernal throne - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Bounty of the grape-crowned year - Caroline D. Swan "Stars of Cheer"
To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore - John Milton "L'Allegro"
If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Of all the rose-crowned year - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Where the sun-crowned souls sit peerless - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
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