Potential Titles: Opal

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Sliding along a smoking opal ladder - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

Many as the opal's dyes - Hartley Coleridge "To a Lofty Beauty, from Her Poor Kinsman"

Opals that pop like champagne - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Contemplates a Mutiny"

Blossoms of opal fire - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Under a sky of opal fire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"

Strews the land with opal bales - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XIII: The Sea of Sunset"

Twilight, withdrawal, an opal blame - Bernard Ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Reaching out towards the opal stool - Carly Inghram "Praise Poem"

Points of opal in the crescent coronet - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

An opal from some elfin treasury - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Sea Spell"

Burn like opal arrows - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

Mystic as the opal's blaze - James Russell Lowell "With a Seashell"

Blackened the opal knowledge - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"

Matte black backlit with raw opal - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill

Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

On wings of flowing opal - Herbert Randall "The Winnetuxet"

O'er crags of opal and amethyst - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

In an opal, opaque atmosphere - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: Lights in Fog"

Opals aglow in saffron seas - Clark Ashton Smith "The Cloud-Islands"

Irised with pallors of an opal's heart - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"

Opalled with the changing colours of unrest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Burned like a heated opal through air - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Voyage"

Bubbles blown from the opal stone - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

A splatter of opals - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


Through veils of ether opaline - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"


The opal-eyed vampires of hell - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Pacifist"

An opal-hearted country - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"


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