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Lounging nude atop the roses on the mantle - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Her wild mantle on the hawthorn-tree - Wilfrid Blunt "A Day in Sussex"

Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"

Tinder and steel her mantle - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XLIII. The Impeachment of Night" transl. by John Addington Symonds

In thy scanty mantle clad - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Who own the mantle of the sky - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

Gathering mallows to be my mantle - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Diademed by earth's velvet mantle - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"

A mantle of rainbows shall wrap you about - Rose Fyleman "The Fairy Lover"

A mantle of witching grace - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"

The Storm his cloudy mantle spreads - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Pale flowers on his mantle, dark leaves on his hair - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"

Rude mantles of the birch-tree's rind - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

The night upholds its mantle - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XI: A Wave"

His mantle of sand so white - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"

Wearing the crimson mantle of the sun - George Martin "Aspiration"

Venus' mantle lined with stars - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"

Over the roofs a mantle of husked sun - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Her mantling spell of silver - Grace Nichols "The Shilling and the Princess"

That sable mantle of the sky - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Her mantle she flung to the wind - "The Outlaw of Loch Lene" transl. by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

A mantle of starlight hung - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Moon's Message"

That king whose tattered mantle beckons from the dark - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

Put mantles on our words - Wallace Stevens "Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly"

Take up the mantle but beware the war - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

With her mantle veils the Sun's bold eyes - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

The luminescent mantle of the kerosene lamp - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"


On the mantelpiece an Invitation to the Dance - T.S. Eliot "A Cooking Egg"


The seven champions of the silver-mantled shield - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

The shining of some silver-mantled star - "I Am Coming!" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]


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