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The scent of orange bloom made redolent - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

Fragrant with the scent of love and longing - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجار"

Scent of thyme and summer - Raymond Antrobus "His Heart"

In vain with orange blossoms scents the gale - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The secret scent of ancient waters - Lou Barrett "Young Fisher King"

beneath the crystal scent sweet leaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"

Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Set upon the scented Lotus flower - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Scenting the shadows at set of sun - James C. Bayles "In the Gloaming"

Inhale the posh scent of ragweed - Jaswinder Bolina "Apologia Matilde"

The familiar scent of bonfires - William Brewer "Housesitting"

Bearing the scent of their dying - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"

Thread the scented paths of pine - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Wild hymns upon the scented air - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Breathed no scent of herb - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

Toward the sweet scent of oncoming storm - Sue Budin "Reclamation"

The scent of April's fruitful showers - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

First light, last scent, lost country - Chen Chen "First Light"

Embellished with scent and sparkle - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

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]

The scent of an oilman determined to drill - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

Leaving a scent of lilies on the air - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

Where scent comes forth in every breeze - W.H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"

The surprise of purple and the scent of rain - Kwame Dawes "Purple"

Follow the long scent home - Diane DeCillis "Room Full of Children Staring at Me"

The spell of the sea's one scent - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

The scented dew long cupped in lilies - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Golden maze of stinging scented fire - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"

Inside the scent of tangerines - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

Envy her scent for water - Rae Gouirand "Petrichor"

Hounds scenting out the retreat of the stag - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Watch for the echoes of their scent - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Above the scent of raw water - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

Venom in the scented flower - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Bring our hands there scented of a river - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Wafting scented wreaths of love - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: May"

Distil those pearly tears to scents - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]

A scent of earth in the night - Louisa Humphreys "All Souls' Night"

The foxes will scent out my slaughter - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Whose Scent exhaled the Asphodel - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

No strength in the scent of death - Allison Eir Jenks "Painting the Dead"

Some flowers waft scent to the skies - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]

Scented with the most fragrant of spices - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"

The scent of gardenias and gasoline - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

The knowing scent hidden in each bloom - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

The scent and silence overwhelming me - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

As with hounds on the scent - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

Goes out by the scented stairs - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

Scented of roses and fire - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

Scenting the air with protective promises - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"

The delicate scent of age-old dreams - Naomi Long Madgett "Funereal"

A July night scented with gardenia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Still hounds seek his scent - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

Days like scented leaves - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

Quiet worship at our scented shrine - Claude McKay "Commemoration"

The scent of the unsilenced sea - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

The scent of pure winter - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Scent of harsh rosemary - Pablo Neruda "Exile" transl. by Alastair Reid

Towards the ancient scent of moss - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The scent of its own full shape - Naomi Shihab Nye "Words When We Need Them"

By matching its scent - Andrea Perry "The Sure-Footed Shoe Finder"

Still hungry for the scent of laurel - Linda Pastan "Firing the Muse"

Scent of indigo incense - Willie Perdomo "Let Me Ask You Something"

The hounds that hunt on the Scent of Gold - Frank L. Pollock "The Trail of Gold"

Where the scent of primrose clings - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"

Sugar scents dancing through the liquid ripples - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"

Scents of vineyards and beer - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason

Scenting the heels of war - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"

The scent of nameless Calypsos - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

The warm scent buried like a promise - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

Whose scent swallowed all nightmares - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"

Unfolds like a primrose, pale and scented - Joyce Sidman "Love Poem of the Primrose Moth"

The scent of yellow sapphires - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Learns What She Learned"

Always losing the scent when it crosses the Styx - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"

Their meek breath scenting the cowl of winter - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

The scent of the milkweed brings it back - Arthur Stringer "Milkweed"

But one tires of scented time - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

A skein of foxfire and the bruised scent of vervain - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"

Whining to the scent of darkness - Iris Tree "Streets"

And thyme to scent the winter through - Katharine Tynan "The Choice"

The scent of his regrets - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"


Stirred by apple-scented wind - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"

Haunted by the death-scenting shark - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"

Crossing the fern-scented frontiers - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Melt into a faintly honey-scented mist - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"

The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Which spread like scentless, soundless fog - Boris Dralyuk "Universal Horror"

The azure blaze of scentless flowers - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

With snow-scent and lavender bless you - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"


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