Potential Titles: Briar

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Walked through the briars with her eyes wide open - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

The briar was in his thumb - Henry A. Beers "Ye Laye of ye Woodpeckore"

And binding with briars my joys - William Blake "The Garden of Love"

And burst through brier and thorn - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"

Break out of the briar's boughs - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

Through realm of briar - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LVI"

Briars and dust upon my brow - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

By briar, branch and broken stick - Anthony Euwer "Snoots"

Loiters with the briar rose - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"

Your ramparts green with briar fortify - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Must keep a lung of briars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

Birds in the berry bushes and briars - Theodora Goss "My Garden"

If the briars have tangled Time - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"

Coatless and a shirt of briar - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

Grown over with brier and thorn - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 1" transl. by Burton Watson

A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

A space of briar ambition - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

The briar thrilled into jocund life - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Hangs icicles from the skeletons of briars - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

And honest as a briar - Edna St Vincent Millay "She Is Overheard Singing"

Out of the wild briar evoked the rose - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

By black doll or briar thorn - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"

History of fox briars of legend - Adrienne Rich "Fox"

The truth of briars - Adrienne Rich "Fox"

Ash-trees standing ankle-deep in brier - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

Brier and bramble act the parts - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

Just as the nature of briars - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"

Alleys overgrown with briars - Matthew Wimberley "Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing"


Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"


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