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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-08-02 01:46 am

Potential Titles: Tarnish

A tarnished button, a scrap of blue - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Packed with tarnished tinfoil - Elizabeth Bishop "The Fish"

With tinsel lace tarnished and tattered - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Child's Favourite"

These tarnished clouds have refused to accept our suffering - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

Bent on a tarnishing scythe - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

Filled my hands with tarnished gems - Beulah Field "Beggar-Man, Thief"

A tarnish that goes at the touch of a hand - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

Just as the soil tarnishes with weed - Robert Frost "Putting in the Seed"

That will tarnish from want - Rae Gouirand "Persimmon"

Tarnish of moth and rust - Frances E.W. Harper "Mother's Treasures"

A tower in the tarnished game - J. Patrick Lewis "The Slugger"

Another stain across his tarnished honour - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"

His dazzling fame tarnished by insult - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Tarnishing the homes where water-beasts are born - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

Transmute the house from tarnish - Claire Millikin "Rust"

Transfigured tarnish of another's mirror - Claire Millikin "The Unpopular Dress"

Even the sun has black spots to tarnish - A.R. Narayanan "Man"

A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"

Silver dollars like tarnished moons - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Peace kiss and blot their tarnished light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Her mystery eclipses tarnished stars - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

A tarnished lamp with a genie inside - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

Dragging her tarnished light - Leonora Speyer "The Last Morning in the Country"

Without a speck of tarnish - Elizabeth Spires "Story of a Soul"

Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"

Selling their tarnished twilights - Iris Tree "Thoughts of London"

Gold of tarnished masonry - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Tarnished with smoke of the flood - Elinor Wylie "Sea Lullaby"

And wide seas tarnish in the sun - Francis Brett Young "Lettermore"

Hawthorn tarnished in the sun - Francis Brett Young "Testament"


Made of sweet, untarnished silver - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"


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