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"

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"

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

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


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