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Potential Titles: Melody

Murmur dim melodious secrets - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"

The wild Swan's melodious melancholy - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

A sad Muse in the melodious choir - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"

Melodious in the ale-house - "The Hosts of Faery" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Ghosts of melodious prophecyings - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Melodious thunders shake the ground - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Apollo"

Melodious wanderings in leafy refuge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"

Melodious tears of delicate complaining - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"


Courted by melodies and incantations - Elmaz Abinader "The Last Lesson We Learn"

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"

Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

In a melody of cold and hot - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Gives voice to sobbing melodies - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Whose every day was made of melody - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Through the night's mad melodies - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"

Only the sweet ghost of his melody - Willa Cather "Eurydice"

To find it filled with melodies - Arthur Colton "In Port To-Day"

Will make no melody at my will - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

On crested waves of melodies - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"

Girdled with melody of murmuring swans - Nirupamā Debī "The Dancer" transl. by Miss Whitehouse

The incessant rain of melody - Edward Dowden "From April to October: IV. The Skylark"

Demands her atom of intense melody - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Your honeysuckle melody - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"

Joined in the heavenly melody - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"

Mimic the melody and its blank harmony - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"

Line and green and melody - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

What melody rolls over mountains and water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Ghosts of long-dead melodies - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"

Wind bruised into melody - torrin a. greathouse "Belt Is Just Another Verb for Song"

Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"

The melody that earth affords - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

The melody the brave hear - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

In ceaseless melodies of plaintive tone - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

My love's despairing cry filled hell with melody - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Eurydice"

Backing off for another stretch of melody - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"

What endless melodies were poured - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Voiceless"

A faint tinkling melody, warped with time - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

All his art breathes melody - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

Guard your magic beyond the wing of melody - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"

The melody Time whets its teeth with - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"

The dreary melody of bedded reeds - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

To ease my breast of melodies - John Keats "Faery Song"

Poems of unconscious melody - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Some wild snatch of ancient melody - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Whatever melody my voice had steeped in tears - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Francie"

The wild bird's untutored melodies - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Bears a melody laden with spells - Henry S. Leigh "Bow Bells"

The organ sounding off the melody - Keith Leonard "Museum"

All the melody that she employs - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"

Jets and sprays of melody - Don Marquis "Sea Changes I: Morning"

All melodies of earth and heaven - George Martin "Keats"

The soul's spoken melody - George Martin "Thomas D'Arcy McGee"

The melodies were pieces of moonlight - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

Flung out a magical wild melody - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"

Can yield to melody's sweet spell - J.C. McCabe "First Love"

Melodies of dim remembered runes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"

Of golden melody and lofty grace - Yone Noguchi "Upon the Heights"

The demon of discord our melody mar - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

May sail on lakes of melody - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Interlude"

Bathed in streams of endless melody - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Thoughts"

Robbed the flowers of their melodies - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Windy June"

Had this tendency toward melody - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

And feel its broken melody - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

A melody in the throats of morning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

A windy vibration-less melody of counterpoint - Ed Roberson "The Neighbor's Street Sirens Sing"

The melodies of dissent - Luis J. Rodriguez "Making Medicine"

Soft melody, outpoured in June - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"

A melody old as rain and excellent of voice - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

A hundred melodies for every wing - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull

And half-hidden melody - Margaret E. Sangster "Colors"

Pouring crystalline melody from thrones of Light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Tempests of solar melody, vibrant and far-winged - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Sighing melodies to a strange giant - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Showers a rain of melody - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

Wake up and catch the melody - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

Melody in pure and ordered unison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Jolly little dancers and the frolic melody - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Distant echo from dead melody - Wallace Stevens "Sonnet [Lo, even as I passed beside the booth]"

A melody made up of rain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"

The pine-tree's soft melody - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"

All the echoed melodies of your soul - Iris Tree "[Washed at my feet by the curded foam of sluggish waves]"

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Dropped like pearls of melody - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"

Whose melody the heart obeys - Helen Maria Williams "Sonnet, To Mrs. Bates"

Into a vague melody of harsh threads - William Carlos Williams "Trees"


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