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Potential Titles: Drum

Make uproar loud as drums - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Dream"

With drums before and roses showered after - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

With arms reversed and muffled drum - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"

The surf dreamily fingering his drum - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

The loud death drum, thundering from afar - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Freedom's drums in the blood of the world - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

From that drum of terrible stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

And the drums of defeat before me - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Of voice-over and steel drums - Tommye Blount "But the Weather, the Weather"

Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

A drum echoing through a crowded cave - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Beats no drums to her battles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"

Drumming on a distant tuft of cloud - Adrian Castro "The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping"

With booming war drums of bacchanalia - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"

Those born under the drum - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Its drums and darkest blowing leaves ignore - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Acknowledgment of their unthinking drums - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIV: In Shadow"

Ocean drums his grand march beat - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

With faint drum-tones of thunder - John Gould Fletcher "Mutability"

Walk where drums are buried - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"

Romance, beating his distant magical drum - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"

Ashlar whereon the gales might drum - Thomas Hardy "The Old Workman"

The muffled drumming of ten thousand engines - Seamus Heaney "Funeral Rites"

Thunder drums the skin of sky - Georgia Heard "Room of Nature"

Faint drums and hungry insects - Conrad Hilberry "Mario"

Not with drums or trumpet blare - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"

The throbbing drum of the pheasant - William Dean Howells "Louis Lebeau's Conversion"

Death is a drum beating forever - Langston Hughes "Drum"

Beat the drums of tragedy - Langston Hughes "Fantasy in Purple"

Makes hammer beat of drum beat - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

With drums and guns and guns and drums - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

The air is a red drum - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"

Dancing to the shadow drums - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

The brave Music of a distant Drum - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Beats dead like a slackened drum - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"

Drumming the Old One's own tattoo - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

With his clarions and his drums - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"

No sound of muffled drum - George Martin "Charles Heavysege"

Snapped into drummed orbits around the Sun - Adrian Matejka "Mail-Order Planets"

Abandon, feathers, and drums - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

The air is valiant with drums - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

Drums whose loudness is their emptiness - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"

Like a hundred beating drums - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"

Ghostly drums that only seem to beat - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Had a drum in his chest - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

The Five Mountains drumming and dancing - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

The beat of daybreak like a drum - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner

With his leather drum and stone trumpet - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Beat the drums of spring - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"

Hypnosis of flute and drum - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

Fall's white glare and drumming zest - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"

The drums and the darkness within - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

After the drums of time - Wilfred Owen "The End"

Treading slow with muffled drums - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"

Where the whole body becomes a drum - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Of blackberry juice and drums - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Drums rattling like curses - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The drumming of our stars - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

The drum of departure - Rumi "The Journey to the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Let the woodpecker drum and drum - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

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

They know us as the drums in their dirt sky - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"

Bell and drum on the south river bank - Su Tung-p'o "Following the Rhymes of Chiang Hsi-shu" transl. by Burton Watson

Songs and drums jar the hills- Su Tung-p'o "Rhyming with Tzu-yu's 'Treading the Green'" transl. by Burton Watson

First flicker drumming on a dead ash - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Tooth and tail and cobweb drum - Dylan Thomas "Poem [Your breath was shed]"

The drums of time beating against oblivion - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"

The ill-omened drum of dropping rain - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Every muffled drum and grieving bugle - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"

even in the dead of space, a drumming - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

While the devils beat the warlike drum - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

Poured abroad widely by the drum - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The living song descended upon the drum - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Let the drum be ready for the dance - "XXIV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


The drumbeat of a ghost - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"


On the dusty earth-drum beats - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Rain Music"


We shall know by the kettle-drums - R.L. Gales "Waiting for the Kings"


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