Potential Titles: Delicate/Delicacy

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Delicate hold and tender rearrangement - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"

Delicate rumor of peace - Maya Angelou "Woman Me"

Gentle and delicate as Ariel - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Delicate lanterns, star-kindled - Louise Morey Bowman "Song [Dew... Delicate lanterns, star-kindled anew]"

Engraved with delicate devices - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIX. The Amulet of Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Delicate riders of the storm - Hart Crane "Praise for an Urn"

Delicate flowers of sin - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For Daughters of Magdalen"

And words of delicate breath - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

Grasses strewn with delicate stars - John Gould Fletcher "The Endless Lament"

All delicate leaf and toxic petal - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Supervillain Studies: For the Love of Ivy"

Such delicate flowers falling silent - Leslie Harrison "[December]"

Layered in delicate ash - Zoe Hitzig "I Looked on My Right Hand and Beheld"

Delicate with the infinite - Omotara James "Half Girl, Then Elegy"

The most delicately useful of breezes - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

While the willow trails its delicate amber - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A heart of delicate super-faith - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Instinct more delicate than the moon's - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

The delicate pearl and the adamantine jewel - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The delicate flowers of delight - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

From delicately petalled memories - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"

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

Armour me with delicate wit - Theodore Maynard "Warfare"

Its irrevocable delicate thorn - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

A delicate heart beats upon the snow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Control is a delicate science - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hydrangeas"

The delicate aristocracies of bloom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Delicate uplifts of dust-colored skin - Mary Oliver "Look Again"

In delicate opulent silence - Ezra Pound "Salvationists"

The maker of terrible delicate decisions - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Any delicate report of you - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"

Those delicate wanderers - "Sacrifice"

A soft haze of delicate hyacinth - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"

The self's delicate apparatus crumpled - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

Drawing us with delicate tension upward - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

In the delicate snow of the moon - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"

Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Honeycombed with delicate coral branches - Keith Taylor "Drummond Island Fossils"

Walks delicately as a stray spectral cat - Iris Tree "Streets"

Each delicate, rival thread - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Melodious tears of delicate complaining - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

Contrives her delicate masonry - Marguerite Young "Spring"


The fragile delicacy of a charcoal snake - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"

An array of eight delicacies - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson

With what stoic delicacy - John Updike "Endpoint"

Here sprinkle delicacies - Virgil (translated by Kristina Chew) "The Georgics, Book IV, lines 58-66"


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