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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-04-04 06:50 pm

Potential Titles: Distill

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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