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In the wind of night the arras swells and swings - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
And shadows on the arras flit - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The blue arras of nightmare - Iris Tree "Moods II"
Backpack:
In waves of backpacks and barrel fires - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"
Bag.
Bandage.
Bedclothes:
Folded in the bedclothes of night - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"
Bedsheet:
Bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
Blanket.
Briefcase:
Carrying briefcases full of bats - Frank Stanford "Politicians"
Brocade.
Canopy.
Carpet.
Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.
Cloth/Fabric [category].
Clothing [category].
Counterpane:
A daisied counterpane weave - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Dead Friend"
Coverlet:
Weaves a coverlet of dust - George Sterling "Old Anchors"
Time's ashen coverlet - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"
Curtain.
Cushion:
Cushioned between two storms - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"
using the fog's opaque cushion - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
In proton loops, on cushioned air - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Drape/Drapery.
Duffel Bag:
Duffel bags of ancestors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"
Duvet:
The duvet built in honey - CM Burroughs "The Wait"
Eye-Patch:
Eye-patches and clockwork hands - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Flag.
Hammock:
Midnights hammocked in unrest - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
Making hammocks out of figs and accidents - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
A hammock of memories swinging - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Hand-Me-Down:
That my hand-me-down is out of style - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Handkerchief:
Salt rubbed out with a handkerchief - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"
Knapsack:
Knowledged strapped down like a knapsack - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
His knapsack of sunshine - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Bobolink's Song"
To carry in your knapsacks death - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"
Laundry:
A lifetime's heap of laundry - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Over the crumpled bodies of laundry - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
The brew in the alchemist's laundry room - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
Mat.
Mattress:
Mica embedded in a mattress of slate - Mary Jo Bang "Hotel Incognito"
Napkin:
Unloads clean, bone-colored napkins - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"
Net.
Parachute:
Drifting down through the dissolving parachutes - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"
Swinging upon Time's parachute - Harold Acton "Invocation"
Shredded the parachutes to confetti in celebration - C. A. Conrad "Frank"
The only parachutes we need - Jenn Givhan "Of Color of Landscape of Tenuous Rope"
Parasol:
Sad as summer parasols in a hurricane - Maya Angelou "Forgive"
Parasol of amber grief - Lucie Brock-Broido "Portrait of Lucy with Fine Nile Jar"
Patch.
Pennon:
The pennons of morning advance - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Pillow.
Pillow Case:
Pillow cases shaking out white signals in the sun - Sarah Getty "The Wash"
Pleat:
The mushroom's black underpleats - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Pocketbook:
A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Prayer Flag:
Bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
Prayer Rug:
Instead of a prayer rug, I stitch Him a pillow of false proverbs - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Purse.
Quilt.
Red Carpet:
Before they made the red carpet shine - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"
Rucksack:
Never unpack the rucksack of happiness again - Carl Adamshick "Loss"
Ruffle.
Rug:
Your own tragic edge of a rug - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
Walk on the rug of the inquiring millennium - Pablo Neruda "Celebration" transl. by Richard Schaaf
Sack/Sackcloth.
Satchel:
The melancholy meaning of open satchels - Jane Kenyon "Going Away"
A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"
a satchel of laments for a basket of hibiscus - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Sheet.
Shroud.
Suitcase.
Surplice:
Of sect, surplice, or synod - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""
Tapestry.
Tassel.
Tent.
Thong:
By thongs directs the ponderous auger - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
Tote Bag:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"
Umbrella.
Windsock:
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
In the wind of night the arras swells and swings - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
And shadows on the arras flit - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The blue arras of nightmare - Iris Tree "Moods II"
Backpack:
In waves of backpacks and barrel fires - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"
Bag.
Bandage.
Bedclothes:
Folded in the bedclothes of night - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"
Bedsheet:
Bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
Blanket.
Briefcase:
Carrying briefcases full of bats - Frank Stanford "Politicians"
Brocade.
Canopy.
Carpet.
Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.
Cloth/Fabric [category].
Clothing [category].
Counterpane:
A daisied counterpane weave - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Dead Friend"
Coverlet:
Weaves a coverlet of dust - George Sterling "Old Anchors"
Time's ashen coverlet - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"
Curtain.
Cushion:
Cushioned between two storms - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"
using the fog's opaque cushion - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
In proton loops, on cushioned air - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Drape/Drapery.
Duffel Bag:
Duffel bags of ancestors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"
Duvet:
The duvet built in honey - CM Burroughs "The Wait"
Eye-Patch:
Eye-patches and clockwork hands - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Flag.
Hammock:
Midnights hammocked in unrest - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
Making hammocks out of figs and accidents - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
A hammock of memories swinging - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Hand-Me-Down:
That my hand-me-down is out of style - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Handkerchief:
Salt rubbed out with a handkerchief - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"
Knapsack:
Knowledged strapped down like a knapsack - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
His knapsack of sunshine - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Bobolink's Song"
To carry in your knapsacks death - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"
Laundry:
A lifetime's heap of laundry - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Over the crumpled bodies of laundry - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
The brew in the alchemist's laundry room - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
Mat.
Mattress:
Mica embedded in a mattress of slate - Mary Jo Bang "Hotel Incognito"
Napkin:
Unloads clean, bone-colored napkins - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"
Net.
Parachute:
Drifting down through the dissolving parachutes - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"
Swinging upon Time's parachute - Harold Acton "Invocation"
Shredded the parachutes to confetti in celebration - C. A. Conrad "Frank"
The only parachutes we need - Jenn Givhan "Of Color of Landscape of Tenuous Rope"
Parasol:
Sad as summer parasols in a hurricane - Maya Angelou "Forgive"
Parasol of amber grief - Lucie Brock-Broido "Portrait of Lucy with Fine Nile Jar"
Patch.
Pennon:
The pennons of morning advance - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Pillow.
Pillow Case:
Pillow cases shaking out white signals in the sun - Sarah Getty "The Wash"
Pleat:
The mushroom's black underpleats - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Pocketbook:
A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Prayer Flag:
Bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
Prayer Rug:
Instead of a prayer rug, I stitch Him a pillow of false proverbs - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Purse.
Quilt.
Red Carpet:
Before they made the red carpet shine - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"
Rucksack:
Never unpack the rucksack of happiness again - Carl Adamshick "Loss"
Ruffle.
Rug:
Your own tragic edge of a rug - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
Walk on the rug of the inquiring millennium - Pablo Neruda "Celebration" transl. by Richard Schaaf
Sack/Sackcloth.
Satchel:
The melancholy meaning of open satchels - Jane Kenyon "Going Away"
A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"
a satchel of laments for a basket of hibiscus - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Sheet.
Shroud.
Suitcase.
Surplice:
Of sect, surplice, or synod - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""
Tapestry.
Tassel.
Tent.
Thong:
By thongs directs the ponderous auger - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
Tote Bag:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"
Umbrella.
Windsock:
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
