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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-09-18 05:59 pm

Potential Titles: Iris

Hunting snails in the irises - Mary Jo Bang "Day Two of a New Bear"

Irises edging a back wall - Mary Jo Bang "An Individual Equinox Suitable for Framing"

Purple iris in the woodland sedge - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"

Where time is an iris mirror - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"

Iris-flowers above the waves - H.D. "Sea Iris"

The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

The irises and their harsh tongues - Lois P. Jones "Between Fulmination and Adoration"

The delusion of lilacs or iris - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Grow"

But I mistook the sky for an iris - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

Clustering irised bubbles - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Gather wild irises out of the air - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

Irised with pallors of an opal's heart - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"

Plucks dark iris from the rippling shallows - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Yellow iris stood on guard - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

A blur behind the sharpness of irises, waiting - T.D. Walker "Iris"

Glimpsing the iris gateway barred ahead - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

That mock the painted bow of Iris - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Iris of tumbled nautilus - Francis Brett Young "Five Degrees South"

To Iris grown resplendent - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"


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