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Potential Titles: Speech

Can we reduce echo's sadness by synchronizing our speeches? - Rae Armantrout "Two, Three"

Henceforth our speech is with spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"

Of one speech and one endeavour - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

Precursor & remnant of speech - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"

Utter their hollow speech - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

My speech with my thoughts keeps no pace - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

As cool to speech as stone - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XVII: Asleep"

Little ghostly syllables of speech - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

The penitentiary of free speech - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"

Speech with Ceres' ghostly daughter - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

The faint flowing speech of the friendly blue - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

The mystic speech of nature - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

In the slight predictability of speech - Leah Naomi Green "Almanac"

At what gold-laced speech - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"

The speech of my forgotten soul - F.W. Harvey "Out of the City"

And rained down flowers of speech - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Where love needs no speech - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

Speech that could be a poem - Eunsong Kim "[asian]"

Raw airs uncloven by speech - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

The speech of wind and water - Archibald Lampman "The Islet and the Palm"

Older and stranger than speech - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"

Through purple mists of riddled speech - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love V: The Day of the Two Daffodils"

Your kindness in refusal of speech - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

To comprehend the speech of brick and beam - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

The speech of many sorrows - Jeannette Marks "Proem"

Bridged with speech and sight - Don Marquis "Across the Night"

Some bitter speech in my mouth - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

The speech of prophets writ - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Nearer than the sirens' speech - Frank O'Hara "For James Dean"

For the silence in his speech - Kiki Petrosino "I Married a Horseman"

Dream-dark piers of speech - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

Of elegant speeches sadly wasted - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Teufel-Haus"

In speech of beauty's lore - Theodore H. Rand "To W."

Erased from the roaring volume of speech - Rumi "Sanai" transl. by Coleman Barks

A soapbox famous for its speeches - Charles Simic "Le Beau Monde"

Seek lives outside of speech - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Our speech of silence made - George Soule "Winter's Pride"

All too wild for speech - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

The sea alone hath speech - George Sterling "Forenoon by the Pacific"

Poverty's speech that seeks us out - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Tart speech and full-ripe reason - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Delivers an eloquent speech on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Sustains themself on empty speech - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

To thieve speech and sense - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"

Along the slender wires of speech - Henry van Dyke "Rendezvous"

Without speech to drown our words - Cecilia Vicuna "The Disappeared" (translated by Rosa Alcala)

Seeking lucid speech in colonies of darkness - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"


Held speechless by the vine - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Old Bell"

beheld night's speechless carnival - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

That still and speechless hour - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

Whose speechless song being many - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"

Speechless in a foreign country - Richard Solomon "Crossing Borders (For Ray Helfer, M.D.)"


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