Potential Titles: Burnish

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Veined shells and burnished scales - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Lit up to brilliance by the burnished moon - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"

Poseidon's burnished axle drifts - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Burnished by expandable light - Mary Jo Bang "What Is so Frightening"

Each epoch a burnished stratum - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

The glow-worm burnishes its lamp - John Clare "Summer Images"

Screen after screen of burnished sapphire - Olive Custance "Peacocks. A Mood"

A sentinel of burnished steel - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon

The memories of the lost turning in their burnished locks - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Burnishes her prized vocations - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Or tossed his burnished share - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Writ in burnished rows of steel - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

In a carven censer of burnished words - Joyce Kilmer "Thurifer"

The burnished cup of the marigold - Archibald Lampman "Freedom"

Follow their trail of burnished arrows - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

When the sun burnished all the green to gorse - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"

Any mountain sheet burnishing in colors bright - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"

What suns of burnished brass - Theodore Maynard "Apocalypse"

To praise each beetle's burnished wing - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"

The burnished cypher of the sky - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Burnished like chalcedony - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Scene"

While katydids burnish the day - Tim Seibles "Naive"

Our lines bristle with burnished steel - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

On the burnished disk of the marigold - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"


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