poppied

• “Foster feeling, your poppied gaze is all the lunar tide it takes to float the deadweight of our days.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Best American Poetry 2008

• “Blossoms and grass from blood in battle spilt, And poppied corn, I bring.”

  Lay Morals

• “Quick on the screen of my mind flashed two pictures, side by side — the little four-rayed print in the great dust of the crumbling ruin and its colossal twin on the breast of the poppied valley.”

  The Metal Monster

• “For within the ring, close to the clustering globes, was a miniature replica of the giant track in the poppied valley!”

  The Metal Monster

• “The fields, as we swept rapidly past them, were as bathed in peace as when we had left them; there was even a more voluptuous content abroad: for the twilight was wrapping about the landscape its poppied dusk of gloom and shadow.”

  In and out of Three Normady Inns

• “Here were no melting-yellow mustard-fields, nor flame-lit poppied meadows, nor blue-bells lifting their baby-blue eyes out of the grain.”

  In and out of Three Normady Inns

• “Tawny-haired, erect, and astonishing in the perfection of his childish beauty, Peter Carolan advanced her a bronzed, firm little hand, and gave her with it a smile that seemed all brilliant color -- white teeth, ocean-blue eyes, and poppied cheeks.”

  Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

• “We who took the poppied potion of our life, and quaffing deep5”

  The Meaning of Man

• “At such times, it is to the novelists, to the inventors of stories, that we most willingly turn for the poppied draught that we crave.”

  Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations

• “But sometimes when I do not try to write, and only lean back and close my eyes, I can catch again a little of their breath and sweetness; I can see the purpling vineyards and the poppied fields; I can drift once more with Elizabeth and our girls through the wonderland of France.”

  Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm

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