Potential Titles: Dye

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Allergic to hair dye and silver - Hala Alyan "Truth"

Weaves it with less gaudy dyes - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

So deeply stained with sorrow's dye - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Dyes with an Excess of Joy - Aphra Behn "In Imitation of Horace"

Stained with amethyst and amber dyes - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"

The rose assumed a dye more deep - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Dyed with the red wounds of fear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"

Many as the opal's dyes - Hartley Coleridge "To a Lofty Beauty, from Her Poor Kinsman"

Summon gold and crimson, bright as dyed in blood - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

And shine with a thousand changing dyes - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

And is not shattered into dyes - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"

Peach and plum in lacquered dyes - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"

A metal rain of radiant dye - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"

The dyes of your mountain and lake - Alfred Perceval Graves "Lough Leane"

Are dyed with tints of glory - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

No stain of deep and Stygian dye - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

With golden dyes are glowing all around - "The Hunt Is Up"

Bright dyes of saffron - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

In a Hell's debauch of dyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Their soft dyes had steeped my soul - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"

Dyed in blood, tangled in dreams - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

His tatters rich with Indian dyes - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Soaked in the ditch's dyes - George Meredith "Seed-Time"

The lamp of my soul dyes your feet - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Dyed with the hue of spring rivers - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Of rich and radiant dyes - Josephine Pollard "The Peacock's Train"

With girdle of a sombre dye - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"

Canker blooms have full as deep a dye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIV"

Bring in the coal that dyes our hands black - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

Wherewith the suns and worlds were dyed - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

And forms in restless crimson dyed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

My heart is dyed a color so deep - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 44: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Notes and dyes of jay and towhee - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

Dyed with blood and dreams - Iris Tree "[The adored, wild, strange, irresistible]"

Tinted by the dyeing dusk - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

The sulphurous clouds of war dyed red in lurid light - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]


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