Potential Titles: Olive

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Set olive twigs in my hair - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

Like silver through the olive's green - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"

The familiar pitch of olive harvest - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

Entwined a wreath of peaceful olive - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Bitter as raw olives - Diane DeCillis "Milk"

Darkling beneath still olive boughs - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"

Welcomed the dove with an olive - George Blackstone Field "The Coming of the Line"

The plains of the olive and hills of the vine - Felicia Hemans "Guerilla Song"

Trampling the vine and olive - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

Grieving on his rock under olive trees - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Die slowly from the olive sky - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

With an olive-sprig in his mouth - D.H. Lawrence "The American Eagle"

Thousands of feet below the olive-roots - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Breading and olives and cherries - Joseph Lease "America [Try saying wren]"

The olive with its fruit of peace - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

One talon for the olive branch - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Lands of olive and the rose - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

No olive trees or mint leaves in their forest - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"

Olives on the mountain's crest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"

Drank brine and left the olives - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Moved amid the multitude of olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Blew a golden horn among the olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Proclaims olives of endless age - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"

Legend of the maroon and olive forest - Wallace Stevens "The Green Plant"

Eating olives as the sun goes down - Chase Twichell "Never"

Played against olive and smoky lime - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"

That measures its life in olive groves - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"

Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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