somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Rich

Sugar-loaves from Paradise enriched our bread and milk - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

The rich tribute of a heart that trusts - A.L.O.E. "The Wise Men from the East"

Buying the riches of the sea - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLII: Sea Merchant" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich

we bask in the richness of legends - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

Wove a rich asbestic web - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Rich in rhetoric's winning wiles - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

May harvest richest blessings - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garland"

To be rich of earth - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"

How bright is Earth's rich gown - Paul Bewsher "Three Triolets: Colours"

Rich the crops that fall - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Love's rich and trusting light - Edmund Blunden "The South-West Wind"

Held a rich full moon upon your heart - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

Her riches round them spread - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

How rich the hawthorn's blossoms - Robert Burns "Highland Mary"

Spent their rich inheritance of years - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"

Love's richest music flowing - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

The rich, wild sweetness of her song - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Behind the rich silence of red-running sunsets - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

Too rich for one soul to swallow - May Chong "Catering"

Adorned with richest fate - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Lynne Lawner

The rich things stolen from the earth - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The stain of rich red wine - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

How rich and great the times are now - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

Farm soil too rich in microbes - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Grew rich with vanilla - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Eager to take the riches of renown - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Rich with Immortal Green above - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Rich spice-fields and perfumed sands - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"

Ransack earth for riches rare - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

A beggar in the richest dream - Elaine Equi "Rococo"

Sleeping in the richness of those petals - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"

Around no heart do richer feelings cluster - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Rich with mischief - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 12"

In the windows of the technically not that rich - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

In rich pavilion of the skies - Paul Gerhardt "Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud" transl. by James W. Alexander

With rich twilight of witchcraft - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Rich with the spoils of time - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Now the rich stream of music winds - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The virtues of method and rich supply - Linda Gregerson "Half Light"

Strange in that rich peace - Ivor Gurney "Interval"

Floods of light rich with all hues - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

The rich evening of a southern heaven - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Rich province of the western star - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

Lend to the gale a rich perfume - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"

Rich with ripe sorrow, needful of no word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Offers fair omen for a rich year - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

The rich dews of fortune - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Removed from Vain Fashion"

One fostering sunbeam matured the rich gem - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Removed from Vain Fashion"

The rich mist of purple grapes - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Laid a rich state on frugality - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

With Fancy richly fraught - Anne Killigrew "To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of Cleanor"

Had so rich a store of Sacred Wreaths - Anne Killigrew "Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another"

The richest flowers blowing - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

You unlade your riches unto death - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

In the rich court of royal Solomon - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Feast richly on a little bread - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XIII: Met Once More"

Promise me the rich can't sleep - Joseph Lease "Free Again [excerpt]"

Whenever something rich and rare - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"

The rich, rich song of my hunger - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"

Herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers - Amy Lowell "To an Early Daffodil"

And the rich robe of Autumn withdrawn - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"

His tatters rich with Indian dyes - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

In some rich year become a dream - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Take the riches of the rain - Alice Meynell "The Spring to the Summer"

Rich with the darkness of forgetting - Dante Micheaux "Funhouse"

Rich instruments with which to experiment - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

The rich soaked mulch of sheer regret - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Where no fresh stream temper the rich salt wave - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

Rich doors to richer guests were opened - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

While the rich man's mill is strife - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"

That offer wary windmills to the Rich - "Nonsense"

And only memory making us rich - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Grandmother in the Stars"

Climb their rich ladder of choruses - Naomi Shihab Nye "Open House"

Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

A rich and enduring night - Sharon Olds "The Task of Naming Me"

If the rich want payment - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"

So rich with the bewildering past - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"

Golconda's pearls and diamonds rich - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Who set rich wine upon the lees - Gilbert Parker "Their Waving Hands"

Rich as the shower of Danae - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Of rich and radiant dyes - Josephine Pollard "The Peacock's Train"

To some rich desert fly - Punch "Ballad of Bedlam"

His riches and impudence safely would carry - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Until the gold ran rich and thick into jars - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

And pours rich glory on me - John Rollin Ridge "Random Thoughts of Her"

Down into rich and endless darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

What Abraham was rich in - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"

For her glory's rich harvest - Sir Walter Scott "Song"

And all arrogance of earthen riches - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

With earth and sea's rich gems - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

To one more rich in hope - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIV"

The rich chord of full darkness - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

With the richest love he feeds me - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"

Truth's rich and deathless blue - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"

a richness of choices - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

Tap the rich treasures of Time - Robert J.C. Stead "The Homesteader"

In one rich embassy of gold - "The Summer"

As if fortune's rich tide never ebbed - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

The rich dark clusters of the Vine of Death - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Woven of Nature's richest stuffs - Henry David Thoreau "Haze"

Distil its rich and silent dews - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"

With crowning brilliancy and rich rewards untaxed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Rich in broken glass - John Updike "Chicory"

Flowers in the place of riches - "VII: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The riches of the whole world's rhyme - William Watson "To Lord Tennyson"

The dusk so royal and so rich - Winifred Welles "Exile"

No riches from his scanty store - Helen Maria Williams "A Song"

No riches now can raise me - George Wither "I Loved a Lass"

This city of riches has fallen empty - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

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