Potential Titles: Hedge

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His way is hedged with thorns - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Through the hedge and down the furrow - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"

All the friendless way hedged with offence - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"

To chase gold butterflies by green hedgerows - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

And hides behind the hedges - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

Hedging all the hills of time - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

Mends the broken hedge with icy thorn - George Crabbe "The Village"

Only hedge the cuckoo in - Fulke Greville "Love for Love"

Red earth and a hawthorne hedge - Florence Hoatson "Summer Picture"

Girds itself with myrtle hedges - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

That hedge yourselves about with silence - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

The elm-trees sadden in the hedge - John Masefield "August, 1914"

A hedge where ragged robins grew - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

The twisted dark of the hemlock hedge - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

In threes and fives by thorn hedge gates - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson

Through high hedges of the green rain - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"

Chrysanthemums by the eastern hedge - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Drinking Wine 5" transl. by Burton Watson

Come under the trembling hedge - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"

Setting sumac hedge aflame - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"

Rose hedges to the very water's brink - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]


With the smile of the hawthorn-hedge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"


Drag her silent from the hedgerow maze - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Between the hedgerow thorns - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

Hedgerow waifs and ragamuffin strays - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"


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