Potential Titles: Velvet

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Silken harlots, velvet wine - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

With a velvet curtain over your eyes - Mary Jo Bang "Dwelling in Our Time"

The velvet howl of a holding leech - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

red for something velvet deep - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

A velvety multitude of moths and insects - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

Velvet fingers at midnight's hush - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"

Arrayed in velvet plumage - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"

No finishing school's velvet etiquette - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

A voice like ice and velvet - Hilda Conkling "Little Papoose"

Diademed by earth's velvet mantle - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"

And you shall dance in the velvet sky - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"

A smooth dry carpet of velvet - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

Velvet deer stalking the moon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"

Lie in the velvet depths of silence - Ben Hecht "My Island"

A gilded mote on blue velvet - Nazim Hikmet "On Living" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Mimic flowers from out my silk and velvet garden - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

A velvet purse that holds a hundred pounds - "Jack Jingle and Sucky Shingle"

Sweetening into the blue velvet - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

Dark velvet edges them round - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

His sails were all of velvet - Charles Kingsley "Earl Haldan's Daughter"

Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"

Velvet courtesy or caution cold - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Lest moths pillage my velvet capes - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

Wrung them from startled velvet midnights - Naomi Long Madgett "If There Were Songs to Sing"

Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"

Velvet stiff with gold device - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"

To drink the velvet sun - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Velvet near a laced up tree - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

Velvet hides an empty breast - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Where it sleeps in green velvet - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"

In the velvet knife of night - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

Dark's velvet dialectic - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"

On velvet bales of the dark - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Lifting their velvet shadows - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"

Crawl into a dusk of velvet - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

A wonderful state of black velvet and feathers - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

To rob the velvet of its hue - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

Dressed me in velvet dignities - Iris Tree "[Loneliness I love]"

Knee-deep in velvet peace - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Preserved behind velvet doors - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"

All the velvet warp to silver kindle - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"


Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"


Velvet-winged spirits of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"


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