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Vision-isles and fairy shore - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

In the veins and sinews of a pine on a lone isle - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

The subject isles uplift the paean of glory - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

Sceptred Gorgon of the Isles - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

All the isles that fleck this turning star - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

An isle with utter clearness lit - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Down through all the saints' isles - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Still pining on Negation's desert isle - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

This remote and new-struck isle of time - John Freeman "Waking"

The shelter and rest of the Isle of Time - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

Embrace each distant isle - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Left Glory's isle another name - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."

Thrice fifty distant isles - "The Isles of the Happy" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Crimson reefs and isles of amber - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Isles of blades and laughter - Kenneth MacLeod "The Reiving Ship"

In the isles of bread and honey - Pablo Neruda "Letter on the Road" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

In the throat of the fortunate isles - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin

We sailed to the isle of parrots - Pe Kin-yi "A Lady from Afar" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Despise starry isles in light embosomed - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Drift towards a mystic isle - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"

Where Circe's isle floats purple - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

Fragrant zephyrs there from spicy isles - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Round the flinty shores of my bleak isles - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]

To isles of timeless summer - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

From the surf of boreal isles - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"

Each isle had fenced a saint recluse - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Breaking into isles of light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

Hovering over sacred isles - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson


Snag and fall and siren-haunted islet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"


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