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Into the shrill dirge of birds - Lou Barrett "Death of a Son Before His Time"

Shrill the wind-winged heralds blew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Whom shrill dawn devours - George Cronyn "Disillusion"

The cricket shrills from stone to stone - Walter de la Mare "The Ruin"

Shrill evensong the cricket sings - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"

A robin shrills his lonely tune - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

Crying his sorceries shrill and clear - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

An axe shrill singing - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IX: April"

The shrill short crying of the sea-lark - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

With crests of shriller scarlet - Wilfrid Gibson "The Parrots"

A zillion crickets shimmeringly shrill - Tony Hoagland "Frog Song"

In every key from soft to shrill - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Lighter than the bat's shrill cry - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"

Herald lightning and the crane's shrill cry - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Silenced shrill blizzard voices' call - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Endurance"

Shrill thunder blares at midnight - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson

Forests shrill with one-legged goblins - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

None but the lark so shrill and clear - John Lyly "The Spring"

The shrilling trumpets broke the halt - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

Where loneliest the shrilling cricket calls - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Starlight turned them shrill as crystal - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Harping its shrillest, searching tone - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"

Sharp and shrill as swords at strife - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"


The shrill-piped curlew's song - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"


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