Potential Titles: Sang

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Of a song that outsang the lark - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"


God's word is a melody I sang once then forgot - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"

They sang words without falsehood - "Alexander the Great"

Sang a song that sounded blue - Kwame Alexander "Jazz Jive Jam: Celebrating Langston Hughes"

Orpheus sang to life his buried joy - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

Sang the soul of wine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

When the wind sang like a scream - Oliver Baez Bendorf "New Moon Newton"

What poets sang in Atlantis? - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

The words you sang were wrong - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"

Trembled when he sang - Hilda Conkling "Yellow Summer-Throat"

The rocks where gold-haired syrens sang - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The famished arrow sang before - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Sang at the sun's great golden doors - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"

And sang as they neared us - Mary Mapes Dodge "Nell and Her Bird"

One bird sang the song I chose - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

While the violins sang with him - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Sang copper into velveteen shells - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Sang with the mourning wind a dirge - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Writhed and sang wordless rage - Paul Guest "Walking the Land"

Sang the sky to eternity - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"

Distanced itself and sang of its guilty blood - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Who sang to the angels of the deep - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

And the wild winds sang requiem - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When we first met, dark wintry skies were glooming]"

No one sang until one person began - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

Wasps sang at the windows - Mary Oliver "Flare"

The orioles sang in chorus - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of Big Plans"

Where we sang with midnight - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"

Sang above the vineyards of the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

When morning sang the genesis - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

That sang to rest old bones of warriors - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"

Sang beneath the sunset sky - Christina Rossetti "An Apple Gathering"

Three sang of love together - Christina Rossetti "A Triad"

Ashes that sang and dust that shone with thought - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"

The pale Boreal Child sang to the soul of Naught - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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

Who caught and sang the sun in flight - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"

The calves sang to my horn - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Sang in my chains like the sea - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush - Edward Thomas "The Brook"

The ancient star trails that sang them home - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"

The ocean sang in my father's hands - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

Proof of where the hot blood sang - Emily van Kley "Rules of the Game"

Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"

Sang in the house the litany of Zeus - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: I. Pheidias"

Sang as if her song could have no ending - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"

Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


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