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A song without ears - Stephanie Adams-Santos "from Xibalba [Outside the water sings]"

Their ears will hear the Wakhan ridge call - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Soothe his ear with chiming creeds - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

To vivisect the ear's dear pleasure - Mary Jo Bang "She Couldn't Sing At All, At All"

A gentle word in sorrow's ear - Cora C. Bass "No Blessing Ever Comes by Chance"

A precious something for an absent ear - Charlotte F. Bates "Unsaid" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.31, Oct. 1873]

Wild ravings in Night's frighted ear - James Beattie "Elegy"

Hoard dirt in my ears - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"

Remains frozen in my ears - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

I stuffed my ears with faded stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"

In my ears a great triumphant song - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

Sound cannot satisfy the ear - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"

Wind whispering blandishments in his ears - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"

Let my ears go secret agent - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

And oceans echoed glories in her ear - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

Iron voices rolling on her ears - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

When the ears of the sow yield us purses - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Ringing fire songs in her ears - Tiana Clark "How to Find the Center of a Circle"

Scant with lean ears of harvest - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Hold the relic to your ear - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"

In starry ears a bridal song - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

With my ear at the keyhole of Eternity - Benjamin De Casseres "The Peeper"

Put our ears to the earth to hear the rumblings - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"

The clock ticked desolation to their ears - Geoffrey Dearmer "To the Uttermost Farthing"

Reaching for the ear of the sky - Diane DeCillis "Arranged Marriage"

Like hot lead into foreign ears - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni "Indian Movie, New Jersey"

Earnest language breaks upon my dreaming ear - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Afraid of the paradise in my ear - Carolina Ebeid "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick and Mum Petals"

With her ear against a dead wasp nest - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

The foghorn booming in his ears - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Whispered from one listening ear to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Whispering in my dreaming ear - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]

By which Vice cheated eye and ear - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

The cry of hounds fell on her ear - John Gay "Fable L: Hare and Many Friends" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Spare my jest and save my ears - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

No nonsense will offend their ear - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

And the songs of April were in my ears - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Close my ears to the beat of your tides - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"

Whose angry labours wound the ear of Noon - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Once freed to mortal ears - Louise Imogen Guiney "For a Child"

To unheard choirings lent his ear - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

A word unwelcome to his ears - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Like thunder on my startled ear - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

Turn a deaf ear to thy supplicants - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]

Whisper madness in our invisible ears - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"

A jewel of blue magic in your perfect ear - Joy Harjo "Desire"

I'd keep one trick in my ear - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Breathe that name in Memory's ear - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."

Ears bewildered with silence - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Night on a Mountain"

I keep pressing my ear to the current of air - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

Close their ears to the truth - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Surprise you inside your ears - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Then whispers wound into my ears - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"

Let handfuls of the fat ears fall to them - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Follows ear and echo - Erica Hunt "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"

To sing in thoughtful ears - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"

The sun will whisper it in my ear - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

The hearts of those very few with open ears - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

The music of stopped ears - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Naming Ceremony"

a whisper in someone else's ear - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"

Spreads to the ears of the bee - Kaneko Misuzu "Dewdrop" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Poured the vial of poison into the betrayer's ear - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Split ears of morning earth - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

On the listening ear of night - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Shouted in our ears for free - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"

Though your Witchcrafts strike my Ear - Anne Killigrew "A Farwel to Worldly Joys" [sic]

Their ears are full of night - Ted Kooser "The Old People"

When I set my ears into the wind of the hall - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Noises upon listless ears - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

Which haunt some dying ear - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

In her ears were rings of dead men's bone - Charles G. Leland "Bone Ornaments" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

His ears are stone to the organ - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Third Movement"

And spends three days washing out his ears - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

Ancient Oak hears with ancient ears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"

On ears that had wiser employ to seek - George Martin "The Woodland Walk"

Is my ear whispering its own soft calls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 73: Libidella (Secret Dirge)" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The silence of the cold stones met the ear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Pitched so low your ear can't find it - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

My ear of shadow - W.S. Merwin "At the Bend"

With all the cannons at your ear - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"

My ears begged for camouflage - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"

The minutes prick their ears and run - Harold Monro "Solitude"

Ears human enough to hear - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Transfusions"

The winds of sin whispered in my ear - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

Trained our ears to wake and comprehend - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

Delight is in her ears - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"

Song before two thousand uneven ears - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XVII" transl. by William O'Daly

The sky echoes in my ears - Margaret Noodin "Northern Lights" transl. by the author

Into the sky's wide ear - Naomi Shihab Nye "Almost, Never"

Peals along the quickening ear - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]

whispered them into the right ears - Jose Olivarez "poem where no one is deported"

Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Whisper in the ears of Galileo - Linda Pastan "Time Travel"

Through the feathered ear of the angel - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

Though the sea-shell cheats the ear - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Trying to breathe that word into the well's ear - Adrienne Rich "Well in Ruined Courtyard"

Time is a frenzied music in my ears - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Form words for reluctant ears - Lynn Riggs "Those Who Speak in Whispers"

Sad songs that live in earnest ears - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

The north wind round my ears - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"

Mad slanderers by mad ears believed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"

Give ear to the march of Time - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"

On the terrified drum of his trembling ear - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

Its ears of quivering stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"

Came back clanging about my ears - George Soule "Solitude"

Crystal voices lifted to thine ears - George Sterling "Yosemite"

The promise of rhyme bending my ear - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"

On his ear a low rumble - Alfred B. Street "Buttermilk Falls: Racket River"

If you bend a listening ear - "A Summer Holiday" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Though we sang as angels in her ear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

To hand in the ear of thought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"

Feel nothing but the wind rush past my ears - Keith Taylor "Conditions"

To all true wants Time's ear is deaf - Henry David Thoreau "Independence"

The burden of that sound falls ever on my ear - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Speak directly into the ear of the sky - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: Twilight"

With anxious heart and wondering ear - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"

First to embody for the listening ear - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]

Unrelated to jealous ears and eyes - William Carlos Williams "These"

Too rare for the human ear - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"

The whisper of dusk in the drowsy ear - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Sundown"

Beauty’s ignorant ear - W.B. Yeats "The Scholars"

My ears clams with mouths full of sand - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"


That crop-eared horror who haunted deserts - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"


Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"

With its hard spine & dog-eared corners - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"


Beating in the sky's eardrum - Deema K. Shehabi "Vista"


And mouths his words at earless owls - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

Across the earless face of the moon - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"


The earmarks of the actual - Kay Ryan "Blast"


The dead yawn out of earshot - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"


Shaking grains against the three wired bones of my inner ear - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]


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