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Potential Titles: Shade

you in your shades of blue - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"

Sit under a pyramid's shade - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

Fairies dancing in shady bowers - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Glory fades in a thousand shifting shades - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

What august Shade at midnight here convene - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"

Rimmed with light, shaded with night - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Shade the countryside with outstretched wings - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Drowse in the shade of their whirling sphere - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

Winter casts its shade before it - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"

Where all is shade and gloom - "B--The Bittern" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

In the cypress-shaded valleys - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

A line of hibiscus drawn in shade - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"

To meet those shades that ruled the realms of mind - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A table in the shade of a parasol tree - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"

In the shade and tears of gall - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited

Gloom invests the howling shades - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Deep in the crumbling bridge's shade - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

A gathering of shades - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"

A dream did weave a shade - William Blake "A Dream"

Spreads the dismal shade of Mystery - William Blake "The Human Abstract"

What cannot be known of shade - Brian Blanchfield "In Their Motions"

Walking two by two beneath the shade - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

Beneath the wry shade of the architrave - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"

Sleep safe in the shade of civilization - Bruce Boston "Children of the Mutant Rain Forest"

From out the thickleaved oaken shade - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

Shades instead of stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Birds soft singing through the shade - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"

Throngs of insects in the shade - William Cullen Bryant "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood"

Underneath their fragrant shade - Robert Burns "Highland Mary"

We to the quiet shades descend - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Obscure with crowds of visions and of shades - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Horror and the shade of harm - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

To a shade by terror made - Arthur Hugh Clough "Duty"

Hide now so long those crimson shades among - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

The light every shade of gold - Katie Condon "Big with Dawn"

This shady path of happiness - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"

From outside the shade - Hilda Conkling "Rambler Rose"

A damp and chilling shade - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

Stoop to shade the scented cups of flowers - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Quits his own vine's securing shade - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Beneath this walnut shade - William Cowper "Epitaph on a Hare"

And chase the trembling shades away - Richard Crashaw "Verses from the Shepherd's Hymn"

Dreams of light eclipsed in shade - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"

When Evening spreads her shades around - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Whispering shades on Lethe's shore - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"

The tempest does not reach her shade - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Living shade from beechen branches - Edward Dowden "From April to October: V. The Mill-Race"

Greening aisles of sacred shade - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Bright blossom of the shady woods - Lucinda Elliott "The Linnaea Borealis" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.418, 3 Jan. 1852]

Floating 'neath the alder's shade - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Give my dust their funeral shade - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

Shady moments of rest - Margarita Engle "Sharing Peace"

Shades of faith that different show - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Burned gowns gathered in the shade - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"

Shades of death are round me closing - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]

The gathered shades of many years - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Beneath whose far projecting shade - Philip Freneau "The Indian Burying Ground"

Gave them back their shade - Robert Frost "The Exposed Nest"

Dim grey with shade - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Night's shades are coming - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"

And claim the cast of green shade for ourselves - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Sunlight, treefall, decaying signals, shade - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Gallons of different shades stored in the basement - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"

Give us no relieving shade - Robert Hayden "Zeus Over Redeye"

The warp of shade, the weft of light - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

In the lap of solitude and shade - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Far in the cedar shade - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Graves of a Household"

Relieved by depth of shade - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"

In all the blending shades of Time - Felicia Hemans "Rural Walks"

Whispering through the cedar shade - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Laughter flickering back from shine to shade - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Lingers in the shade of bending willows - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

Through storm, and shade, and shine - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"

Who ever knew sorrow in all its shades - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

In the shade of a fortress of snows - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"

The tower divides the shade and sun - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXI: Hughley Steeple"

Flints in the shade of tall nettles - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

Besides the shades of the night - Louisa Humphreys "All Souls' Night"

And weeping shades come after - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"

Just a dirty shade of yellow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "DeBarge"

Within the shade of freshly chill - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

Shading into sky of gold - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "In Summer Twilight"

The shades and monsters of our night - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"

Postulate the exact shade of the astral self - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

A shady boon for simple sheep - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks - John Keats "Hyperion"

Inexorable princess of the shades - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Out of four other shades of grace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Shade by shade and line by line - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

Emerges from inward shades of our night - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"

The cool of an oak's unchequred shade - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Across the silence and the shade - Amy Levy "In the Night"

With fleeting grace of shade - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Who rules the shades in banishment - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Even his shade by Charon ferried - James Russell Lowell "On Planting a Tree at Inverara"

Flowing silent in the shade - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

Blooms ever in sunshine and shade - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"

Their substance but a shade - Don Marquis "Hymn (1914)"

Picking black daffodils in the shades of broken stones - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

A green thought in a green shade - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

In the flame-heart's shade - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"

The edge of shade and shine - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

On violet shaded snow - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The tree's traces of changing shade - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"

Ribbons of shade and eclipse - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"

Their shades and glory threw - James Montgomery "The Common Lot"

Planting shade trees upside down - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

To rob the grey shade of its spoil - Francis Neilson "Resurrection"

The vivid shades of dissolution rival the desert - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Arranged its shade to let hearts of sunlight fall - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Magnolias gloom the earth with densest shades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Feeling not a shade of doubt - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

A shade of stifled grief - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

With evening shades, return no more - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Nor cast a single shade upon the past - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]

In deep oblivion's shade - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

Lure the sunlight into shade - Lynn Powell "The Argument for Zero"

With all her makeup shades of gray and red - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

My valley of shade and dreams - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "My Valley"

Glide athwart the sunshine and the shade - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Swirling blades through inky shades - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

This twinkling shade of waving bushes - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: V. The Mohawk Girl"

A phantom in the myrtle shade - Ronsard "Of His Lady's Old Age" transl. by Andrew Lang

By the shade of our souls - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"

Into night's deep shades - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"

Our bold search flashing through the shade - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

Beneath the myrtle's fragrant shade - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"

With false shades to conceal the emptiness - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Violet-shadows to haunt the shade - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

One vast mass of mingling shade - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Sinking to autumnal atlantean shade - Cedar Sigo "Green Rainbow Song"

Of rocky realm and haunted shade - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Shade nor lightening of her flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

Shades by nature's pencill drawn - William Somerville "The Chase"

The shade throwing himself into the river - Frank Stanford "Lament of the Land Surveyor"

Shades of grief have darkly gathered - E. Clementine Stedman "Lines: To the Author of the Requiem, 'I See Thee Still'"

Shrunk in the shade of the cypress - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Heliotrope"

The world's arisen shade - George Sterling "Yosemite"

For the shade of a word - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"

In the shade of fluttering oaks - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Autumn"

Sister shade and phantom brother - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

That live down here in shade - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Lipstick shades to tranquilize - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"

In midsummer storing up clear shade - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

To the shades of eternity past - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

Shades from the night of forgetfulness - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

These orbs of light and shade - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

With quartered shades of sun and moon - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Lights and shades hid what has never been - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"

While the relentless shade draws on its veil - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"

Thoughts through narrowing glooms of shade - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"

And quake in shades of mutation - Edwin Torres "The Circle at One End"

When the shades of night descend - "U--The Ursine Opossum" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Old snow in their shade - John Updike "Stretch"

A plentiful feast in the maple-tree shade - Henry van Dyke "A Noon-Song"

Tracing flakes in shades of dark - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Lichens"

Cumbered with her clinging shades immense - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell

Influence of the silence and the shade - Paul Verlaine "En Sourdine" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Making sunshine out of shade - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

Gentleness in the shade of shadows - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

Where high walls shade the steep old streets - Mary Webb "Market Day"

In the sun they cast no shade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Spill the shaded flame - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"


A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"


Whose path the darkest clouds o'ershade - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXII: Unhappy Bride" transl. by Sir John Bowring


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