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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-08-10 02:54 am

Potential Titles: Twine

Entwine.


Intertwine.


A knot of life intwined with faith - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster


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


That round our heart-strings twine - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"

Where the sea-snakes coil and twine - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

Wrists twined with a red thread of electricity - Mary Jo Bang "The Ana of Bliss"

Tied with twine of invisible hue - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

Twines with oak the laurel leaves - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Their hundred twined and dancing arms - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"

A ball of twine in the grey sky - Tamiko Beyer "February"

A garden of twined scars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

Twine ten dollars into every stitch - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Twines the jasmine with the rose - Elizabeth A. Davis "The Sun-Kiss" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

In exquisite tendrils twining - Arthur Davison Ficke "Rupert Brooke"

And twine around the year's fermenting wine - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Rogue electrons twining around those almond nuclei - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

Rotting pillars where the woodbines twine - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Divide & twine a scarlet thread - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"

All with myrtle twined - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

With flowers of Eden twines - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Lime and silver hawthorn twined - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Twining wreaths of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "Wayfarers"

Young hearts round this new life can twine - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

In a nest of straw and baling twine - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

Seek to twine a coronal of song - Henry S. Leigh "The Miseries of Genius"

Disengage our twined fortunes - Amy Lowell "Leisure"

Twining subtle fears with hope - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

Twine in the kingdom's portico - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Electrical poles held up by a neighbor's twine - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Twine a chaplet of deathless flowers - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"

Each minor Planet which around him twines - Philo "The Tribute"

Twined with every thorn - Joseph Mary Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"

Twined up in loose fog, time-shocked - Khadijah Queen "Dementia Is One Way to Say Fatal Brain Failure"

Who wears a glory of Orions twined around her brow - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Conversations twining cold between my vertebrae - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

The Jasmine clambers up the wall to twine her wreaths - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Ivy twined around the oars - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

My heart a fist of twine - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"

Twined marvellously together - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

That twined elm-boughs hold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell

Catch the wind and twine the evening stars - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

The ball of twine has just run out - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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