Potential Titles: Frog

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Frogs are croaking near the mill - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

The fears inspire'd by frogs or mice - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Muttered to the frogs - Robert Bly "The Man Who Walks Toward Us"

Watched the antic frogs - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

The discordant dialects of the frogs - Onyedikachi Chinedu "Snail-Picking"

Each particle a Basho frog slipping into the pond - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

A hiccup of frog's tiny heart - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Creatures"

Frog and lizard in holiday coats - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

With a wise old weasel, a rat and a frog - Rose Fyleman "The Grouse"

And the song of frogs floated up - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Wind in Mexico"

Frogs, pipe loud your song - Joyce Kilmer "The Use of Night"

Only the frogs and the gray owl know - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"

The frogs would tell you if they could - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"

An origami frog in a vellum crown - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"

Frogs perfect their symphony at dusk - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"

The frogs came in their tide in late July - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

A unanimous vibrato of frogs - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Play at leap frog with the grass - Alexander Posey "The Idle Breeze"

Frogs don't understand mercy - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Tlaltecuhtli"

And frogs obeyed a wooden king - George W. Ranck "The War of the Rats and Mice"

In time may become a respectable frog - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Crowded with whippoorwills and frogs - Kenneth Rexroth "A Singing Voice"

The frogs in frenzied chorus - Robert W. Service "The Logger"

The only ones still singing are the frogs - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"

With his deep bassoon chimes in the frog - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

When shores clicked with frogs - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"

Already a falling of frogs has begun - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"


The burble of the bull-frog in the well - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Bogs churning with bullfrogs - Diane Seuss "Curl"


Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"

When the tree-frogs chant in choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"


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