Potential Titles: Rare

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An air less rare than longing might - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"

Forego your redolent draughts of rare Pekoe - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

In the land of strangers pity is sweet and rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"

Be less lavish with her kisses rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

Adorned in solid silver and rare bright coral - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

Too wild to last, too rare to die - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

No rare jewels to give thee - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Offering"

Rarest flowers, their odors vaguely mixed with amber - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Heaps of rare drifted salvage - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

Down a rare path - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"

Piles of porcelain rare - Charlotte Bronte "The Letter"

With portals of bluebells and lilies rare - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

Picking river sage and rare angelica - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Made rare mockery of her broken vow - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]

That rare loss that vanishes with your bewildered will - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

opening in a rare Slowness of gloried air - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

Tropical birds and rare perfumes - Julia C.R. Dorr "Maud and Madge"

Shakes rare incense at your feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"

Rare wisardry in characters vermilion - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

With dreams of rare and breathing grace - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A chant of rare, exultant certainty - Florence Earle "Morning" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]

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

The lure of the roses is rare - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"

Rare jewels delved from a fairy mine - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"

The world so rarely lets us in - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Rarer than soft honey cells - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Whose breath is fierce and rare - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"

Bold converse with things rare - Lionel Johnson "Plato in London"

Scarce stirred beneath its burden rare - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

A rare antidote for deadly poison - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

A cordial old and rare - Sidney Lanier "The Stirrup-Cup"

In this rare ether slake my reverential lips - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"

So rare a picture should not pass away - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Change is that rarest light - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"

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

Vain is the blood of rare and spotless herds - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Rare companions at my side - Arthur Macy "At Marliave's"

From the hull of bows and rare imagination - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"

And fill all hearts with rare delight - D.M. Matheson "The Bard of Ayr"

Golden moment rare like wine - Claude McKay "The City's Love"

Taking my breath with their rare symmetry - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The rare lonely spirits - Claude McKay "To a Poet"

Still my hunger's rarest food - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet III from A Few Figs from Thistles

And plucked me fruits and flowers rare - "My Mother" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]

Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Rarest fruits in that garden grew - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Two Angels"

Laments in a language, uncommon, and rare - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Where startled Echo rarely calls - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

When such rare delights as these abide - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"

Kindle leaves & clay with rare copal - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

Of that leviathan so rare - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"

Rarer songs of gods - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"

A rare tissue of fine mysteries - W.W. Story "Sonnet"

Impose rare sigils on your gem-like souls - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta: The Epilogue of the Dreaming Women"

All thy gifts were made more rich, more rare - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: V"

Ivory spools with rare embroiderings - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"

Exquisite triflers and deceivers rare - Paul Verlaine "A la Promenade" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

For the rarest flower seeks - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

A rare touch of most effective art - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

Of rare Aladdin's wondrous cave - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Too rare for the human ear - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"


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