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Potential Titles: Jasmine

Drooping eyes of jasmine-flowers - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

The days of jasmine in Rome - Cyrus Cassells "Jasmine"

Twines the jasmine with the rose - Elizabeth A. Davis "The Sun-Kiss" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

secret imaginings of romance and jasmine - Layla Azmi Goushey "Dream Particles"

Jasmine rising from a valley somewhere in Egypt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Burying melancholy with jasmine and sweet osmanthus - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Jasmine garlands to adorn her bed - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"

The jasmine of our exhausted human spring - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The moon caught up in the jasmine - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Trains of dejected jasmine - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The shy, dispersed jasmine - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Silver stars upon the jasmine's hair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Doubly wreathed in jasmine - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Amid the plumbless jasmine of the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

The Jasmine clambers up the wall to twine her wreaths - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Where mint and jasmine lace their perfumes - Ocean Vuong "Kissing in Vietnamese"

Ants still emerge from a jasmine bloom - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

The kisses were ghostly with jasmine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ghost"

Jasmine tea miraculously appears - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

The jasmine lightness of the moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

Winter jasmine wilts in its glass vase - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi


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