Potential Titles: Ruby

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Its ruby, a searchlight in the center of its head - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

My throat turning to rubies - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

The girl with the ruby tattoo - Mary Jo Bang "On to the Onslaught: A Little Millennial Dirge"

Sunlight where a ruby bled - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"

Pay it back with diamonds and rubies - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Ruby kindling, rippling fringed with molten gold - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Before the hills like hindered rubies - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IV: Day's Parlor"

The flame in the heart of a ruby set - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"

Translucent globes of ruby wine - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"

Ruby lights and devil's wine - George Blackstone Field "The Bonnets"

Bring wine that has the ruby's blaze - Hafiz "The Divan VIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Build with fadeless rubies - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"

Cities that glittered like rubies - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"

The ruby's and the rainbow's song - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

And with his ruby eye out-threatened Mars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Left its ruby throne on high - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Lost Pleiad"

We'll fill Time's glass with ruby tears - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

In a liquid mass of rubies sleeps - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"

The ruby sun feel from a cloud's bent claws - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Spilling their exploding rubies - Pablo Neruda "My Crazy Friends" transl. by Alastair Reid

Set afire by a secret ruby - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

All with pearl and ruby glowing - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"

Shells with ruby lips - Alexander Posey "Seashells"

The ruby in turn supports an angel - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

A ruby path between the earth and sky - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"

Ruby poppies embossed across the handle - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"

The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"

Set in ruby rays serene - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"


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