Potential Titles: Distill
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Distilled from a banana republic in fire - William Archila "Spirits"
And spotted plagues from putrid fens distill - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
And Odin's daughters breath distilled perfumes - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
An apertif distilled of wormwood - Jaswinder Bolina "Postcards"
Distilled in the hard flesh of the moment - Bruce Boston "When Clock Is Egg"
Perfumes, in hawthorn boughs distilled - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"
By drops, distil my streaming heart - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman
Where the lake distils its misered bounty - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
Distilled the tar of cigarettes - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
The sweetness distilled of my strength - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Ecstasy distilled from old desire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"
Arrows dipped in honey, thrice distilled - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Archers"
Distiller of the balm of rest - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
And a vapor of azure distills - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"
Exquisite, distilled in separation - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"
The distilled essence of hell - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"
The manna's sacred dew distil - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"
Once again the heart distills them - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Dictionary" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Distilled blood from its crown - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Distil their soundless syrup - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
And horrible vices their poisons distil - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Distill'd from limbecks foul - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIX"
Distilled from asphodels - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Distil its rich and silent dews - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"
Distilling light from volatile darkness - Natasha Trethewey "Give and Take"
Distils a charm of silence over all - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Distilled itself like dews in rue and asphodel - Helen Hay Whitney "To E. D."
The sap that love distills to joy - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"
A garden in mid-distillation - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 11"
A distillery of virtue & fiction - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fasting"
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And spotted plagues from putrid fens distill - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
And Odin's daughters breath distilled perfumes - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
An apertif distilled of wormwood - Jaswinder Bolina "Postcards"
Distilled in the hard flesh of the moment - Bruce Boston "When Clock Is Egg"
Perfumes, in hawthorn boughs distilled - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"
By drops, distil my streaming heart - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman
Where the lake distils its misered bounty - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
Distilled the tar of cigarettes - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
The sweetness distilled of my strength - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Ecstasy distilled from old desire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"
Arrows dipped in honey, thrice distilled - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Archers"
Distiller of the balm of rest - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
And a vapor of azure distills - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"
Exquisite, distilled in separation - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"
The distilled essence of hell - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"
The manna's sacred dew distil - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"
Once again the heart distills them - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Dictionary" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Distilled blood from its crown - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Distil their soundless syrup - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
And horrible vices their poisons distil - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Distill'd from limbecks foul - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIX"
Distilled from asphodels - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Distil its rich and silent dews - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"
Distilling light from volatile darkness - Natasha Trethewey "Give and Take"
Distils a charm of silence over all - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Distilled itself like dews in rue and asphodel - Helen Hay Whitney "To E. D."
The sap that love distills to joy - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"
A garden in mid-distillation - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 11"
A distillery of virtue & fiction - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fasting"
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