Potential Titles: Lute

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Nor serpent's eye, nor siren's lute - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

The lute that was his laughter - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

In swamps the lizard's lonesome lute - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"

An ivory lute with strings of gold - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Imagined lutes make voiceless harmonies - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Thread the silence with a lute - Zona Gale "To a Poet"

A lute with one string left unstrung - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

Or lute in land of dreams - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]

And Sappho's lute has lost its power - L.E.L. "The Skylark"

The words my lute can never say - Frances Ledwidge "In September"

The single quaver of a lonely lute - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"

Dead leaves drift on the lute - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"

And silence strings her lutes - Theodore Rand "The Whitethroat"

The lute of the deep - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"

And so I give you but the hollow lute - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"

Heart breaking hand upon the lute - Muriel Stuart "Leda"

Gave my whole heart to my lute - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

Blue fingers of the moon still play on my old lute - Wang-Wei "Best Happiness of All" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

A sad song with a sad lute playing beside it - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Lyre, or lute, or subtle spell - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"


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