Potential Titles: Whisper
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somethingdarkerWhisper into the neighborhood acacia - Anne Carly Abad "The Last of Us"
Summer whispering in the ferns - George Abraham "Unarcheology of 'Father'"
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
And whisper tenderly of generous love - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"
The winds with their enticing whispers - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
Vaguely caught through whispers fallen from tradition's lip - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Do not accept, we whisper down the soul-webs - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Some whispers refuse to translate - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"
Whispers exposed themselves as arrogant echoes - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
A call that requires you to hear your own whisper - Mouna Ammar "What it's Like"
False tongues three have whisper'd evil - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Whisper white lies to the dead - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"
Each snowflake whispered a secret - James Armstrong "First Snow"
The aspen whispers in the breeze - T.H.W. Armstrong "Loneliness"
Though never winds have whispered it - Matthew Arnold "Religious Isolation"
Locked doors & heavy whispers - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
Whispering promises to ourselves - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
A dark angel whispering to me - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"
Shrouds itself and whispers exits in the dark - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"
Abandoned love kept whispering hope - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
That faint, persistent whisper that drives one to speak - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Whispers at the mouth of the maze - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
And whispered fears, creating what they dread - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Whispers the tale of waning years - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
Wanders like a whispering stream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
Like angel whispers floating by - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Whispering sea and the stars like lace - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Pipes that Pan left whispering under a tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Whispers its name from a waterfall's hairline - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
The whisper through the tansies run - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"
Generations mingle and whisper in tongues - Leah Bobet "Leonid's Family Reunion"
Whisper into the cage of exile - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
The whispered secret of a deed of blood - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Whispers in an undisclosed room - Jari Bradley "Unruly"
Whispered queries marlin-sharp - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Your voices in the whispering trees - Vera M. Brittain "To Them"
And whisper when the wild winds blow - Anne Bronte "Memory"
While heaven and earth are whispering - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
To cloak the sky with pillow whispers - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
Hope whisper'd her first fairy tales - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Comes not the faintest whisper of dissent - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The many whispers before rain - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
Not a single star to whisper - F. O. Call "Calvary"
Where the standing corn whispers - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
The hoarse whisper of the corn - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"
Whispering things nobody knows - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Just a whisper in the hall - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]
All oracles that whispering speak - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Whispers like sorrow - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Wave"
Beneath the whispering trees we lingered - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
Whisper of things beyond the Present's reach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
In the dance of the whispering snakes - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
who will their hungering whispers hear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
A meek thrush whisper to the dark - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
And winter's earliest whisper roams - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
The house if full of whispering ghosts - Olive Custance "The Storm"
Send whispers across water - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Whispering shades on Lethe's shore - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"
Not a whisper comes again - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"
Turns away from the whispering shore - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"
Where the breeze whispers and the sun bubbles - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
Dreamed in heaven and on the whispering sea - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
Soft whisperings of the wheat - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
And whisper to the ground - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
A hundred winged whispers - Anna Harriet Drury "The First of May"
Buried whispers in pine needles - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"
Stars whispering behind veils - Cheryl Dumesnil "What You Were Doing Up There"
Whispers through mist his flowered prayer - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
Put a whisper into a jar - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
To be drunk among whispers - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Deceives with whispering ambitions - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Whispering lunar incantations - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
Forgot to whisper your death to the bees - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
What the elf prince whispered to his ivy vine bride - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Whether they roar in storm, or whisper peace - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
The wash and whisper of far waters - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
Whispered from one listening ear to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Wheeling and whispering come - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
Whispers in a ghostly tavern - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
That whispers courage in the void - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon
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]
My long scythe whispering to the ground - Robert Frost "Mowing"
And whispers into every next- Rose Fyleman "The Cuckoo"
A whispered pray blowing the crumbs - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"
The village network of whispers - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
Whispering their fables by the fire - Dana Gioia "The Ancient Ones"
The spider's silken whisper from its web - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Seek for rhythmic whispering - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
But a whispered echo through the dark - Mona Gould "Some Quiet Day ... Perhaps"
The shadow of the Grail falls like a silver whisper - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
Whispered love and muttered fears - Robert Graves "The Spoilsport"
Chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath - Angelina Weld Grimke "A Winter Twilight"
Wherein with silver sound a brooklet whispers - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]
A whispered vow beneath the budding elm - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"
Clasping my knees in the whispering cold - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
Whisper madness in our invisible ears - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
A whisper from ancient roots - Avis Harley "The Skyway to Mexico"
The whisper reaches its goal - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 2"
Hear whisperings of the infinite - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"
Listening for those whispers clear - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"
Whispering through the cedar shade - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Whispers of sultry ages - B. Higgins "Gallipoli: An Epitaph"
Whispers finding their way down and out - Conrad Hilberry "Bowl"
Then whispers wound into my ears - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"
A dry whisper of withered rain - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
Rustling in silvery whispers - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
The sun will whisper it in my ear - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Whispers old advice for summer - Laura Riding Jackson "The Spring Has Many Silences"
While the sand whispered spells of protection - Marcus Jackson "Evasive Me"
When you whisper to the moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "Where Leaps the Ste. Marie"
a whisper in someone else's ear - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
As it whispers the way forward - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
As if only whispers could make the world hear - Patricia Spears Jones "SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen)"
In each slant rain's worried whispers - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Whispering imagination to the trees - June Jordan "Poem for South African Women"
Their spirits whisper old recipes - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
With all his whispering reeds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Whispered stories of stars - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"
Beneath the whispering roof - John Keats "Psyche"
Fraught with whispering sweet - John Keble "Fire"
And utter but a whisper of the woes - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"
Whispering wind of the shadow - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"
Whispering a stone's promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Guernica"
Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
And comfort them with whispers of their home - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Filling the night with whispers - Lam Lai "I, New York"
The wind's whispers round me roll - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
Take the whisper of sulphur - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"
Whisper to the despairing exiles - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Whispered the runes of Truth - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Such a whisper as hidden in a shell - Richard Le Gallienne "A Love-Letter"
Seldom whispers to the wind anymore - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Howling its iron, seeping whispers - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Whispered in language of stone and rock - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"
Her unheard voice is whispering clear - Amy Levy "The Old Poet"
Whisper hush to eternity - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"
Becoming her own wild whisper - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"
Fountain of whispering and mystery - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Whispers float upon the liquid air - Francis J. Lys "To the Muse"
Whispered in the tangled deeps - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Let the world's whispers call you in - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "barn owl"
If you whisper when the wind blows - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "willow"
Hermes' whisper in the flutes - Edwin Markham "Song of the Followers of Pan"
Are whispering to the leaves - George Martin "The Blind Minstrel of the Market Place"
Whispers ripening in the same breath as ruin - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Some swarming whispers above - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
All tooth and whispered want - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"
A fine veil of whispered voices - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"
Shaken veils still whispering - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
Your fortune in a whisper - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"
Hear that whisper call you back - Rajiv Mohabir "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"
Beautiful in the whispers of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
A perfect destiny on a whisper of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Shade"
Lost whispers of the Magdalen - N. Scott Momaday "Spectre"
A whisper of freedom - jessica Care moore "I used to be a roller coaster girl"
Long nights and the whisperings of new ones - William Moore "Dusk Song"
The winds of sin whispered in my ear - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
The whisper of despair - Walter Dean Myers "John Brambles, 55, Numbers Runner"
Woods filled with nests and whispers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Whisper runes of bliss - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips - Pablo Neruda "Morning VI" transl. by Mark Eisner
Whispers fermenting the night air - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"
Plays his role to the last whispered word - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Different echoes whispered - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
A wand of whispering magic - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Ripe corn whispered inside its perfect sheaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
whispered them into the right ears - Jose Olivarez "poem where no one is deported"
Beauty can both shout and whisper - Mary Oliver "Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way"
Dark and fearful whispered words - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Whisper for rain - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
A whisper among the hazel bushes - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"
And joined their notes with whispering breeze - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
The voice of the dead whispering history - Joy Priest "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over"
Whisper in the ears of Galileo - Linda Pastan "Time Travel"
Our whispers were careful and exact - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"
Whispering everything twice - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"
A whisper, a shadow, a lullaby - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"
To depths of whispering woods - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - Edward Sprague Rand "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Send a whisper up by a moonbeam - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Ballad of the Fairy Spoon"
Match the whisper of the leaves - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [Come to the river's side, my love]"
Over the whispering congregation of the lilies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"
A silvery whisper upon the morning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Snow with its devilish and silken whisper - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
A weed we named white whisper - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Her thought's fine whisper - James Whitcombe Riley "This Dear Child-Hearted Woman that Is Dead"
One word spoken, one whisper of regret - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
Pig whispers and games of chance - Karen A. Romanko "Bosch in Hollywood"
Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
On a dark night when lovers pass whispering - Carl Sandburg "Still Life"
Into cramped stillness whispering, Wait - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
The aether swells with arias & whispers - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Dying whispers on the shore - Clinton Scollard "On Caragh Lake"
Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
A whisper on the night-wind - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"
With the whisper of the unseen shores - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"
Respond in whispers from the shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The whispering waves were half asleep - Shelley "The Recollections"
Whispers away the dying - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"
Thorned whispers well below a human's capacity to hear - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Honeyed whispers composed millennia ago - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Whispering the glorious proofs - Charles Simic "The Chair"
Whispering to the spirits - Charles Simic "Early Morning in July"
Whisper your name alike - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"
Whispering terrific and sacred words - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
A breeze in the whispering fern - E.M. Smith-Dampier "The Riding of the Shee"
Slumberous ripples whispering repose - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
From that height a voice shall whisper - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
To whisper what their roots had found - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
A whisper touched the wind - George Sterling "Justice"
Whispering her vespers to dolls - Meghan Sterling "Chickadee"
Beneath your whispering shadow - Arthur Stringer "The Day"
The call of the ages whispers and the countless ghosts awaken - Arthur Stringer "If I Love You"
Decades of dry winds that whisper once - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Whisper once into the heart of the agave - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
A soundless word, a ghostly whisper - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Threw their heads back and whispered to the stars - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
Who answer when such whispers bid - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"
A few words whispered at dusk - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
To whispers of pointed demons - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Fortune of whispered temptation - Michael Torres "Pockets"
Where murder creeps and whispers - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"
And whispered omens flew like bats - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."
Whispered spells and shameful lore - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
And whispers through your walls - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"
Whispers of a thousand lures - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Whispered friendly oracles - John Updike "Endpoint"
And the desert sands whispered in the wind - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
Camped in the whispering forest of pines - Henry van Dyke "Salute to the Trees"
Whispered a story of creatures in sand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
Will never hear their whispers leak through the dirt - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"
Counting crows and listening to cricket whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Inside it whispers candlesmoke - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Whose virtues are whispered above - Kate Louise Wheeler "Mother"
Whispers peace to each pensive pine - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Whispering phantom hosts - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Ghosts"
Every unheard whisper - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
And heard whispers back - C. K. Williams "Self-Love"
The whisper of dusk in the drowsy ear - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Sundown"
With a whisper no one understands - Elinor Wylie "Escape"
Whispering friends in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
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Summer whispering in the ferns - George Abraham "Unarcheology of 'Father'"
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
And whisper tenderly of generous love - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"
The winds with their enticing whispers - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
Vaguely caught through whispers fallen from tradition's lip - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Do not accept, we whisper down the soul-webs - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Some whispers refuse to translate - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"
Whispers exposed themselves as arrogant echoes - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
A call that requires you to hear your own whisper - Mouna Ammar "What it's Like"
False tongues three have whisper'd evil - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Whisper white lies to the dead - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"
Each snowflake whispered a secret - James Armstrong "First Snow"
The aspen whispers in the breeze - T.H.W. Armstrong "Loneliness"
Though never winds have whispered it - Matthew Arnold "Religious Isolation"
Locked doors & heavy whispers - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
Whispering promises to ourselves - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
A dark angel whispering to me - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"
Shrouds itself and whispers exits in the dark - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"
Abandoned love kept whispering hope - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
That faint, persistent whisper that drives one to speak - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Whispers at the mouth of the maze - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
And whispered fears, creating what they dread - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Whispers the tale of waning years - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
Wanders like a whispering stream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
Like angel whispers floating by - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Whispering sea and the stars like lace - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Pipes that Pan left whispering under a tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Whispers its name from a waterfall's hairline - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
The whisper through the tansies run - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"
Generations mingle and whisper in tongues - Leah Bobet "Leonid's Family Reunion"
Whisper into the cage of exile - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
The whispered secret of a deed of blood - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Whispers in an undisclosed room - Jari Bradley "Unruly"
Whispered queries marlin-sharp - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Your voices in the whispering trees - Vera M. Brittain "To Them"
And whisper when the wild winds blow - Anne Bronte "Memory"
While heaven and earth are whispering - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
To cloak the sky with pillow whispers - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
Hope whisper'd her first fairy tales - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Comes not the faintest whisper of dissent - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The many whispers before rain - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
Not a single star to whisper - F. O. Call "Calvary"
Where the standing corn whispers - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
The hoarse whisper of the corn - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"
Whispering things nobody knows - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Just a whisper in the hall - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]
All oracles that whispering speak - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Whispers like sorrow - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Wave"
Beneath the whispering trees we lingered - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
Whisper of things beyond the Present's reach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
In the dance of the whispering snakes - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
who will their hungering whispers hear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
A meek thrush whisper to the dark - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
And winter's earliest whisper roams - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
The house if full of whispering ghosts - Olive Custance "The Storm"
Send whispers across water - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Whispering shades on Lethe's shore - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"
Not a whisper comes again - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"
Turns away from the whispering shore - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"
Where the breeze whispers and the sun bubbles - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
Dreamed in heaven and on the whispering sea - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
Soft whisperings of the wheat - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
And whisper to the ground - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
A hundred winged whispers - Anna Harriet Drury "The First of May"
Buried whispers in pine needles - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"
Stars whispering behind veils - Cheryl Dumesnil "What You Were Doing Up There"
Whispers through mist his flowered prayer - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
Put a whisper into a jar - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
To be drunk among whispers - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Deceives with whispering ambitions - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Whispering lunar incantations - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
Forgot to whisper your death to the bees - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
What the elf prince whispered to his ivy vine bride - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Whether they roar in storm, or whisper peace - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
The wash and whisper of far waters - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
Whispered from one listening ear to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Wheeling and whispering come - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
Whispers in a ghostly tavern - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
That whispers courage in the void - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon
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]
My long scythe whispering to the ground - Robert Frost "Mowing"
And whispers into every next- Rose Fyleman "The Cuckoo"
A whispered pray blowing the crumbs - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"
The village network of whispers - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
Whispering their fables by the fire - Dana Gioia "The Ancient Ones"
The spider's silken whisper from its web - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Seek for rhythmic whispering - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
But a whispered echo through the dark - Mona Gould "Some Quiet Day ... Perhaps"
The shadow of the Grail falls like a silver whisper - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
Whispered love and muttered fears - Robert Graves "The Spoilsport"
Chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath - Angelina Weld Grimke "A Winter Twilight"
Wherein with silver sound a brooklet whispers - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]
A whispered vow beneath the budding elm - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"
Clasping my knees in the whispering cold - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
Whisper madness in our invisible ears - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
A whisper from ancient roots - Avis Harley "The Skyway to Mexico"
The whisper reaches its goal - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 2"
Hear whisperings of the infinite - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"
Listening for those whispers clear - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"
Whispering through the cedar shade - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Whispers of sultry ages - B. Higgins "Gallipoli: An Epitaph"
Whispers finding their way down and out - Conrad Hilberry "Bowl"
Then whispers wound into my ears - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"
A dry whisper of withered rain - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
Rustling in silvery whispers - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
The sun will whisper it in my ear - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Whispers old advice for summer - Laura Riding Jackson "The Spring Has Many Silences"
While the sand whispered spells of protection - Marcus Jackson "Evasive Me"
When you whisper to the moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "Where Leaps the Ste. Marie"
a whisper in someone else's ear - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
As it whispers the way forward - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
As if only whispers could make the world hear - Patricia Spears Jones "SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen)"
In each slant rain's worried whispers - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Whispering imagination to the trees - June Jordan "Poem for South African Women"
Their spirits whisper old recipes - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
With all his whispering reeds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Whispered stories of stars - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"
Beneath the whispering roof - John Keats "Psyche"
Fraught with whispering sweet - John Keble "Fire"
And utter but a whisper of the woes - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"
Whispering wind of the shadow - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"
Whispering a stone's promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Guernica"
Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
And comfort them with whispers of their home - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Filling the night with whispers - Lam Lai "I, New York"
The wind's whispers round me roll - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
Take the whisper of sulphur - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"
Whisper to the despairing exiles - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Whispered the runes of Truth - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Such a whisper as hidden in a shell - Richard Le Gallienne "A Love-Letter"
Seldom whispers to the wind anymore - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Howling its iron, seeping whispers - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Whispered in language of stone and rock - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"
Her unheard voice is whispering clear - Amy Levy "The Old Poet"
Whisper hush to eternity - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"
Becoming her own wild whisper - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"
Fountain of whispering and mystery - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Whispers float upon the liquid air - Francis J. Lys "To the Muse"
Whispered in the tangled deeps - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Let the world's whispers call you in - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "barn owl"
If you whisper when the wind blows - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "willow"
Hermes' whisper in the flutes - Edwin Markham "Song of the Followers of Pan"
Are whispering to the leaves - George Martin "The Blind Minstrel of the Market Place"
Whispers ripening in the same breath as ruin - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Some swarming whispers above - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
All tooth and whispered want - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"
A fine veil of whispered voices - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"
Shaken veils still whispering - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
Your fortune in a whisper - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"
Hear that whisper call you back - Rajiv Mohabir "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"
Beautiful in the whispers of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
A perfect destiny on a whisper of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Shade"
Lost whispers of the Magdalen - N. Scott Momaday "Spectre"
A whisper of freedom - jessica Care moore "I used to be a roller coaster girl"
Long nights and the whisperings of new ones - William Moore "Dusk Song"
The winds of sin whispered in my ear - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
The whisper of despair - Walter Dean Myers "John Brambles, 55, Numbers Runner"
Woods filled with nests and whispers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Whisper runes of bliss - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips - Pablo Neruda "Morning VI" transl. by Mark Eisner
Whispers fermenting the night air - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"
Plays his role to the last whispered word - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Different echoes whispered - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
A wand of whispering magic - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Ripe corn whispered inside its perfect sheaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
whispered them into the right ears - Jose Olivarez "poem where no one is deported"
Beauty can both shout and whisper - Mary Oliver "Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way"
Dark and fearful whispered words - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Whisper for rain - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
A whisper among the hazel bushes - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"
And joined their notes with whispering breeze - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
The voice of the dead whispering history - Joy Priest "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over"
Whisper in the ears of Galileo - Linda Pastan "Time Travel"
Our whispers were careful and exact - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"
Whispering everything twice - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"
A whisper, a shadow, a lullaby - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"
To depths of whispering woods - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - Edward Sprague Rand "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Send a whisper up by a moonbeam - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Ballad of the Fairy Spoon"
Match the whisper of the leaves - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [Come to the river's side, my love]"
Over the whispering congregation of the lilies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"
A silvery whisper upon the morning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Snow with its devilish and silken whisper - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
A weed we named white whisper - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Her thought's fine whisper - James Whitcombe Riley "This Dear Child-Hearted Woman that Is Dead"
One word spoken, one whisper of regret - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
Pig whispers and games of chance - Karen A. Romanko "Bosch in Hollywood"
Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
On a dark night when lovers pass whispering - Carl Sandburg "Still Life"
Into cramped stillness whispering, Wait - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
The aether swells with arias & whispers - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Dying whispers on the shore - Clinton Scollard "On Caragh Lake"
Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
A whisper on the night-wind - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"
With the whisper of the unseen shores - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"
Respond in whispers from the shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The whispering waves were half asleep - Shelley "The Recollections"
Whispers away the dying - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"
Thorned whispers well below a human's capacity to hear - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Honeyed whispers composed millennia ago - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Whispering the glorious proofs - Charles Simic "The Chair"
Whispering to the spirits - Charles Simic "Early Morning in July"
Whisper your name alike - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"
Whispering terrific and sacred words - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
A breeze in the whispering fern - E.M. Smith-Dampier "The Riding of the Shee"
Slumberous ripples whispering repose - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
From that height a voice shall whisper - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
To whisper what their roots had found - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
A whisper touched the wind - George Sterling "Justice"
Whispering her vespers to dolls - Meghan Sterling "Chickadee"
Beneath your whispering shadow - Arthur Stringer "The Day"
The call of the ages whispers and the countless ghosts awaken - Arthur Stringer "If I Love You"
Decades of dry winds that whisper once - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Whisper once into the heart of the agave - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
A soundless word, a ghostly whisper - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Threw their heads back and whispered to the stars - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
Who answer when such whispers bid - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"
A few words whispered at dusk - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
To whispers of pointed demons - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Fortune of whispered temptation - Michael Torres "Pockets"
Where murder creeps and whispers - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"
And whispered omens flew like bats - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."
Whispered spells and shameful lore - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
And whispers through your walls - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"
Whispers of a thousand lures - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Whispered friendly oracles - John Updike "Endpoint"
And the desert sands whispered in the wind - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
Camped in the whispering forest of pines - Henry van Dyke "Salute to the Trees"
Whispered a story of creatures in sand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
Will never hear their whispers leak through the dirt - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"
Counting crows and listening to cricket whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Inside it whispers candlesmoke - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Whose virtues are whispered above - Kate Louise Wheeler "Mother"
Whispers peace to each pensive pine - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Whispering phantom hosts - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Ghosts"
Every unheard whisper - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
And heard whispers back - C. K. Williams "Self-Love"
The whisper of dusk in the drowsy ear - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Sundown"
With a whisper no one understands - Elinor Wylie "Escape"
Whispering friends in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
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