Potential Titles: Shrill
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somethingdarkerInto the shrill dirge of birds - Lou Barrett "Death of a Son Before His Time"
Through the shrill singing breezes we go - George H. Boker "Mosoor Pacha" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
The sentinel marmot's shrill whistle of fear - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Shattering the air with terror loud and shrill - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"
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"
Five thousand miles away a shrill wind's screaming - Li Po "Waiting on the Tower" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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
That sent the gibbering echoes shrilling after - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
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"
In ecstasy crickets outshrill on another - "Night Fall in the Ti-Tree"
The shrill-piped curlew's song - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
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Through the shrill singing breezes we go - George H. Boker "Mosoor Pacha" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
The sentinel marmot's shrill whistle of fear - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Shattering the air with terror loud and shrill - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"
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"
Five thousand miles away a shrill wind's screaming - Li Po "Waiting on the Tower" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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
That sent the gibbering echoes shrilling after - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
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"
In ecstasy crickets outshrill on another - "Night Fall in the Ti-Tree"
The shrill-piped curlew's song - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
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