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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-12-02 01:44 am

Potential Titles: Laurel

From rival's brow to wrest the laurel - Duncan Anderson "The Death of Wolfe"

Spiraled with lashes of laurel - Mary Jo Bang "Belle Vue"

Twines with oak the laurel leaves - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

To the muse impart the laurel crown - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall

Three boughs of sacred laurel and myrtle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Always on the road of docile laurels borne - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

We laughed together by the laurel-tree - George Eliot "Self and Life"

And bloodless the laurels we reap - "The Golfer's Garland"

Where English oak and holly and laurel wreaths entwine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Let its greener laurels flourish - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

Though bright the laurels waved - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Grinding a path through elderberries and laurel - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Flowering laurels spring from diamond vases - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

To snatch a laurel from Apollo - Henry S. Leigh "My Ultimatum"

Pining for chaplets of laurel - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

To bring his mother laurels back - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]

Weave you crowns of living laurel - Theodore Maynard "L'Envoi"

Surrounded by infinite laurel - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Still hungry for the scent of laurel - Linda Pastan "Firing the Muse"

To mingle with thy laurelled lily - John Reade "To Louis Frechette"

Ahead a rose wreathed laurel - Clarence Victor Stahl "Push Onward"

Dust and laurels and gold and sand - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The Muse's laurel unbestowed - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"


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