Potential Titles: Sound
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somethingdarkerNo sound but inside our hands - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"
The night sounds like a murder of magpies - Kelli Russell Agodon "Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror"
It must be rage because it makes no sound - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"
Sang a song that sounded blue - Kwame Alexander "Jazz Jive Jam: Celebrating Langston Hughes"
The sound that awakened all of everything - Mike Allen "Pulse"
A sound of tears the moment after - William Allingham "A Dream"
The meanings that exist beside sounds - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
A story of want and sound - Alise Alousi "Imitation Spring"
Mimicking the sound of dusk - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
And come to where all sounds are strange - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The huntsman's horn sounds from afar - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
In search of sounder orbits - Raymond Antrobus "Dear Hearing World"
The sound of our separation - Raymond Antrobus "The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame"
Every painstaking sound I utter - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
In mazes of heat and sound - Matthew Arnold "Requiescat"
As if honey was a sound - Atticus "Magic in Youth"
Applause in broken scattering sound - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Dock Drama"
The broken sound of a puppet's voice - Mary Jo Bang "Awake, I Listened"
Begins with the sound of a cat - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"
Silence kept sounding its silver bell - Mary Jo Bang "Staying Is a Form of Haunting"
As if history were a sound - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"
Whose silences detach each sound - Natalie Clifford Barney "A la Campagne"
Shaped the color and sound of mountains - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
For the sound of the daffodil - James C. Bayles "In the Gloaming"
With the horrors of discordant sound - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Astride the sound barrier - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
Faint interlocking tentacles of sound - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
In a low harshness of diminished sound - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A wordless sound of birth and anguish struggling - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Sounds which can stop time - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
The sound of a timid harp - Julius Berstl "Highland" transl. by William Saphier
Deep thrills of ordered sound - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
With sounds uncouth and accents dry - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
The woodpecker sound of an old retreat - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
The strange sounds of flowers - Richard Blanco "When I was a Little Cuban Boy"
Sounded through the haze of harvest - Edmund Blunden "The Canal"
Still sounds like vision's voice - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"
Make an incense of sound - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"
The dangerous sounds of unattained realities - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
A long shadow and a light sound - Louise Bogan "Knowledge"
And the tipped bell make no sound - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
The cicada hum sounds for you - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"
Sounds not the secrets of its silences beneath - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
As a sound deepens into silences - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
The sound of your body forgetting - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"
As the sad curfew sounds - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
A fit of trumpets and trombones sounding - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
When the dark makes its largest sound - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"
This red sound of wolves coming - William Brewer "Relapse Psalm"
Have known the sound of sirens - Geoffrey Brock "Odysseus Old"
Sound cannot satisfy the ear - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
Sound a language that calls all language home - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
The reptile caress of empty sound - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"
A brazen sound excluding others - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
In fountains of sweet sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Scarce old enough for sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Unnumbered sounds and universal motion - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"
Mingling of unnumbered sounds and universal motion - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"
Each sound is a Soul - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"
Falls in the well of sound - Sue Budin "Synesthesia"
Somber is the sound the heart makes - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
A labyrinth of sound and sight - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"
At the trumpet's startling sound - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
A drum that sounded centuries ago - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Lost music in each echoing sound - F. O. Call "The Old Gods"
The sound of whose footstep is vengeance - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Sounds that glad anthem of the glimmering day - Edward Carpenter "The Evernew"
To haunt these sounding miles - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
The sound of my past catching up with yours - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
Before the nightjar sounds his autumn note - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
While I drank the sound with joy - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"
What sound does a subatomic particle make? - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
Of all good sights and sounds bereft - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
On wings of wavy sound - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
Hear the edgeless sound - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"
Sounding from the gates of hell - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
You know the sound of a hungry dog - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
Farewells are a sound unknown - William Cowper "Lines on Receiving His Mother's Picture"
From the muzzle broke the sound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Zeal sleeps soundly by the foes she fought - George Crabbe "The Library"
How bitter sweet the sound - Brody Parrish Craig "Baby You Ever Seen a Wretch Like Me?"
Dissolved in streams of silver sound - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Where the Rhine pours down its sounding tide - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
The sound of her voice is fleeting - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
Within the wind a core of sound - John Davidson "In Romney Marsh"
Beyond that merry sound of moths - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
As deep as plummet sounds - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"
On the first day there was no sound - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"
A pale sound like running - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"
Wear themselves ruthless for a sounding name - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
The formula of sound - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature III"
A cuckoo sounds the hour of rest - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"
His silence sweet with sounds - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
The sound of dawn's first sacrifice - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Raptures through logs of sound - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"
The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
No sound across a windless sky - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Sound like liars to the young - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
And blessings in a storm of sound - Toru Dutt "Savitri"
Sweet as the sound of a calf - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 14. E-Gida, the Temple of Ninazu in Enegir" transl. by Sophus Helle
Where we drown to the sound of lullabies - Heid E. Erdich "Sisters Stay on the Other Side"
The sound of a promise breaking - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star"
Like the motion of sound or sight - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
And rings perhaps with hollow sound - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
The sounds of their own grief - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"
Listening for sounds that will never be made again - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
With dauntless feet and sound of silver bells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
The sound of my immaterial twin - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen b"
Vortex streets of cylindrical sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
No sound to the forgetting - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"
How hollow the sound left behind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"
Drowning the sound of your retreat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"
A sound without dimension - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
Zigzagging pressed sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen F"
Eroding edge of unattainable sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen G"
Bidding earthly sounds grow dumb - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
Sleep to the sound of it - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
as soon as the sound stops shaking in the ocean salt air - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Sound of insects carried with me - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"
Sound the spiral of a flute - Zona Gale "To a Poet"
And fails like sound - Zona Gale "Wonder"
The sound of my heart finally opening - Andrea Gibson "Letter to the Editor"
O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The sorrow of thirsting for sounds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Summer Songs"
The curve of your throat is a troubling sound - Mona Gould "Women are Like That"
When I sound the fairy call - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"
Comes with the sound of breaking chains - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
The likeness of substance and sound - Linda Gregerson "Slip"
Some silver thread of sound - Ivor Gurney "Old Martinmas Eve"
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]
Autumn crickets sound their willful cries - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
Every sound moves memories - Thomas Hardy "A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence"
Till it catch the sound of that western sea - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
In an ocean of telephone sound - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: III. Drowning Horses"
The sound of a thousand silences - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Echoes of sound flooding the earth - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
Navigate by sound magnified through muscle - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
A sound of gathering tumult - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"
Prophetic sounds along the earthquake's path - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"
Their subtly colored chips of sound - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
Stood outside the gates of permissible sound - Brenda Hillman "Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind"
Lifts the sound of ancestral migrations - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
And shook the forest with his sound - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
An owl from nowhere with no sound - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Through all the web of sound - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
While through the sounding sky - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
The witchcraft of harmonic sound - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
And Truth walk down the sounding aisles - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
In the ocean where'er the plummets sound - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Hope sounds like the adult word for magic - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Misers of sound and syllable - John James "April, Andromeda"
To open them without a sound - Allison Eir Jenks "The Prisoner"
Disappeared into sound dressed in gray - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Sounds of the sands have sped - Emily Pauline Johnson "Good-Bye"
To sound their glamouring haze - James Weldon Johnson "Her Eyes Twin Pools"
If echoes are shadows of sounds - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"
The cicadas sounding out the future - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
Sounding out the future through repetition - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
the tiny sounds of faraway birds - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
through a downpour of sound - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
Sent sound in all directions - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"
Grey silk sound pulled out by hooks - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"
The sound of teeth just shy of sinew - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"
And the sound of perpetual praise - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Told by the sound of bells - Lawrence Joseph "A Fable"
A dry scatter and sound of snares - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
Unspoken because nothing makes a sound - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"
Wrapped in a mist of sound - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Sounded out by ant feet - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Spirit of all sweet sounds - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"
The laugh with silver sound - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the dawn]"
Wakes with its joyous sound the soul of mirth - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"
Every sound of war triumphant - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"
Sounds of loud and fierce commotion - Henry Kendall "Australian War Song"
This testament offers no sound or silence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
That only jarring sounds had heard - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
a goose opens its chest to a sound - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"
Our stories all sound alike - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
breaking space and time with an iron sound - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
And sound, like ropes of heat - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
The veering sound of bells - Archibald Lampman "Storm"
In a bubble of sound and self - Michael Lauchlan "Haul"
Like sound plays the Guitar - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"
Sobs of love whose sound appalls - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Mock each sound of human woe - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
The organ sounding off the melody - Keith Leonard "Museum"
The sound shall echo ever when we shall have passed away - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Turn it into fire or the sound of fire - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
With stabbing wounds of bitter sound - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
His chest a cavern of hollow sound - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Hoping the sound spins into a tune - Tariq Luthun "After Spending an Evening in November Trying to Convince My Mother We'll Be Fine"
Your kingdom of murmurous sound - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Song of the Sleeper"
The sound of your coming feet - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
The tender sound of seashells - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"
My song shall not sound cold to him - Katherine Mansfield "The Earth-Child in the Grass"
My electrons black with heat and sound - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
And haunted by its sea of sound - George Martin "Aspiration"
No sound of muffled drum - George Martin "Charles Heavysege"
Solitary, the clock circumvents sound - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
When sounds exchange questions - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
Half blind with the same sound - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
This night of joyous sounds - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Moonlit blowhole plumes of sound - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Re-echoed in the liquid sound - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
The silver chain of sound - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Evolved of sound into sight - George Meredith "Melampus"
Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"
Translates from those rags of sound - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"
The sounds remembered by water - M.S. Merwin "The Cisterns"
The sound of blue at night - W.S. Merwin "Coming to Hear"
Threads of old sound heard - W.S. Merwin "Remembering"
Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"
Everything shimmers with the sound of the train - Joseph Millar "One Day"
The sound of the train rattling over the bridge - Joseph Millar "One Day"
The sound of cold sweet water - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet V from Second April
Sounded the keynote against you - Carlos Montezuma "I Have Stood Up for You"
Unable to shake the sounds of leaving - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
The subtle sound of survival - jessica Care moore "Mixed"
Sound the cosmic depths for the measure of glory - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Poseidon's voice sounds in the storm - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
My tree beneath all sound - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"
A hive without sound - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid
Dressed in gray and bitter sounds - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
Pensive light and wistful sound - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
The sound of sun-steeped weather - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
know the sound of smoke - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
Bigger weapons to sound the void - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Sounds of nothingness strung between - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
With a sound that bleached me - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"
The lonely sound of ice - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"
Builded without the sound of hammer or chisel - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Sounds the sweetest of all silvery tones - P. "Sonnet: On Overhearing a Little Child (a Visitor) Saying 'Mamma' in the Next Room" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 24 April 1852]
That a simple sound should reach so deep - P. "Sonnet: On Overhearing a Little Child (a Visitor) Saying 'Mamma' in the Next Room" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 24 April 1852]
Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
The perilous sound of hail on a tin roof - Linda Pastan "Ah, Friend"
That flutter with a living sound - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
An elegant verticality of sound - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Touching the colorful cacophony of sounds - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
The sound of sadness stepping barefoot - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Walking toward the sound of water - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"
A cacophony of inverted sound - Xan Forest Phillips "Hull"
A glaze of cricket sounds & cool air - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Sound as cracked as an eggshell - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 06801"
Tunes the sounding lyre - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
With mocking voice repeat the sound - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Make bright music give forth a sound of pain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Rummage in the ash in search of sound - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Surrounded by the sound of darkness - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Want to have the last sound - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
Warm with memories of sounds - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Interlude"
Sound in your audacious symphony - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Running over my soul without sound - Lola Ridge "Secrets"
Lights that sound the sunset - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
the sound of your thoughts' running - Ed Roberson "Come On in the Song of the Changes"
That unnamed, tremendous chord Arcturus sounds - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Ascription"
Weigh anchor to the sound of psalms - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"
Then disappear in a hurricane of sound - Amy Redpath Roddick "Our Art"
The sound that held her listening - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
Follow the sound of thawing snow - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
Remembering your sound - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
The sound of honeybees and monarchy - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"
Their sounds a frenzied symphony - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
The true concord of well-tuned sounds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"
All measures of delightful sound - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Listening to the curious beauty of the sound of a million voices - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
A feast of sound and spark - Joyce Sidman "Welcome to the Night"
Like the sound of the moon - Marilyn Singer "First Good Snap"
The sound of bees perforating the air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
The harp of the forest sounds music - "Song of Summer" transl. by Kuno Meyer
To sound the silent skies - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"
A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"
Vanished at the sound of voices - A.E. Stallings "Extinction of Silence"
For the sound of insomnia - A.E. Stallings "Handbook of the Foley Artist"
The sound of a broken heart - A.E. Stallings "Handbook of the Foley Artist"
An echo that didn't make a sound - Frank Stanford "Vanish"
The borders of her sounding sea - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Some strange and wandering sound - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Follow with the sound of gold - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Flawed words and stubborn sounds - Wallace Stevens "The Poems of Our Climate"
A cycle of sound and pressure - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"
The sound of wind-borne bells - William W. Story "The Violet"
First of the village sounds was heard - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
In a cavern where no sound is - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
Or Pallas wake her sounding lyre - "Superior Nonsense Verses"
Making us drink octaves of sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 38: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Lulled by his flute's sweet sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Deer being mesmerized by a sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 218: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
The invisible boiling wind of sound - May Swenson "Three Jet Planes"
With cunning of sound unsought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"
The sound of time, the rhyme of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The ghosts of sense and sound and sight - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
If the sound rises from our dreams - Keith Taylor "The Cull"
The sound of a curse on the earth - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"
Too full for sound and foam - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Crossing the Bar"
The one sound under the sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
The first sounds that the earth heard - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
For a brave, red wave of sound - Louis Untermeyer "In a Strange City"
Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
All around the current intervened its sound - Mark Van Doren "Communication"
Burrowed back with never a sound - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Deeper than the dearth of sound broods over - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
A prey to the dull knell's sound - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
With hoarse and hollow sounds - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Overflowed with rippled floods of sound - Edith Wharton "Maiden, Arise"
The sound off the sighing sea - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
The sound of dreams is fled - John Hall Wheelock "Mirror"
Vex not the night with sound - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"
If the names sounded like home - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
What sound the sun makes - Katie Willingham "When I Ask the Internet if the Sun Is a Ball of Fire"
The way the horizon sounds - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
Only a sound of drowning in the dark - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
With his eternal motion make a sound like thunder - William Wordsworth "It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"
For all sweet sounds and harmonies - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Into the tumult sent an alien sound - William Wordsworth "Skating"
Melting objects, disappearing sounds - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
The only sound is the rustle of metaphors - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"
In the sound of colored glass violins - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Unless we are sounding a warning - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
Looking for the sound of another way - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
The sound of a shadow forgetting - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
A valley compassed with sweet sound - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Hooded cobra bound by hollow spells of sound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Expiring sounds of autumn - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Sounding nothing like water - Jordan Zandi "River"
The sound of an empty valley - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
To hear the merry-sounding reed - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"
A cup full of sea-sound - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"
Soundless.
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
The looped soundtrack of then - Carol Ann Duffy "The Map-Woman"
Cicadas for a soundtrack - Alison Swan "In Medias Res"
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The night sounds like a murder of magpies - Kelli Russell Agodon "Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror"
It must be rage because it makes no sound - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"
Sang a song that sounded blue - Kwame Alexander "Jazz Jive Jam: Celebrating Langston Hughes"
The sound that awakened all of everything - Mike Allen "Pulse"
A sound of tears the moment after - William Allingham "A Dream"
The meanings that exist beside sounds - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
A story of want and sound - Alise Alousi "Imitation Spring"
Mimicking the sound of dusk - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
And come to where all sounds are strange - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The huntsman's horn sounds from afar - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
In search of sounder orbits - Raymond Antrobus "Dear Hearing World"
The sound of our separation - Raymond Antrobus "The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame"
Every painstaking sound I utter - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
In mazes of heat and sound - Matthew Arnold "Requiescat"
As if honey was a sound - Atticus "Magic in Youth"
Applause in broken scattering sound - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Dock Drama"
The broken sound of a puppet's voice - Mary Jo Bang "Awake, I Listened"
Begins with the sound of a cat - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"
Silence kept sounding its silver bell - Mary Jo Bang "Staying Is a Form of Haunting"
As if history were a sound - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"
Whose silences detach each sound - Natalie Clifford Barney "A la Campagne"
Shaped the color and sound of mountains - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
For the sound of the daffodil - James C. Bayles "In the Gloaming"
With the horrors of discordant sound - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Astride the sound barrier - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
Faint interlocking tentacles of sound - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
In a low harshness of diminished sound - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A wordless sound of birth and anguish struggling - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Sounds which can stop time - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
The sound of a timid harp - Julius Berstl "Highland" transl. by William Saphier
Deep thrills of ordered sound - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
With sounds uncouth and accents dry - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
The woodpecker sound of an old retreat - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
The strange sounds of flowers - Richard Blanco "When I was a Little Cuban Boy"
Sounded through the haze of harvest - Edmund Blunden "The Canal"
Still sounds like vision's voice - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"
Make an incense of sound - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"
The dangerous sounds of unattained realities - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
A long shadow and a light sound - Louise Bogan "Knowledge"
And the tipped bell make no sound - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
The cicada hum sounds for you - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"
Sounds not the secrets of its silences beneath - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
As a sound deepens into silences - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
The sound of your body forgetting - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"
As the sad curfew sounds - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
A fit of trumpets and trombones sounding - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
When the dark makes its largest sound - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"
This red sound of wolves coming - William Brewer "Relapse Psalm"
Have known the sound of sirens - Geoffrey Brock "Odysseus Old"
Sound cannot satisfy the ear - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
Sound a language that calls all language home - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
The reptile caress of empty sound - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"
A brazen sound excluding others - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
In fountains of sweet sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Scarce old enough for sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Unnumbered sounds and universal motion - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"
Mingling of unnumbered sounds and universal motion - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"
Each sound is a Soul - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"
Falls in the well of sound - Sue Budin "Synesthesia"
Somber is the sound the heart makes - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
A labyrinth of sound and sight - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"
At the trumpet's startling sound - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
A drum that sounded centuries ago - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Lost music in each echoing sound - F. O. Call "The Old Gods"
The sound of whose footstep is vengeance - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Sounds that glad anthem of the glimmering day - Edward Carpenter "The Evernew"
To haunt these sounding miles - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
The sound of my past catching up with yours - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
Before the nightjar sounds his autumn note - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
While I drank the sound with joy - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"
What sound does a subatomic particle make? - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
Of all good sights and sounds bereft - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
On wings of wavy sound - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
Hear the edgeless sound - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"
Sounding from the gates of hell - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
You know the sound of a hungry dog - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
Farewells are a sound unknown - William Cowper "Lines on Receiving His Mother's Picture"
From the muzzle broke the sound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Zeal sleeps soundly by the foes she fought - George Crabbe "The Library"
How bitter sweet the sound - Brody Parrish Craig "Baby You Ever Seen a Wretch Like Me?"
Dissolved in streams of silver sound - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Where the Rhine pours down its sounding tide - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
The sound of her voice is fleeting - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
Within the wind a core of sound - John Davidson "In Romney Marsh"
Beyond that merry sound of moths - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
As deep as plummet sounds - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"
On the first day there was no sound - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"
A pale sound like running - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"
Wear themselves ruthless for a sounding name - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
The formula of sound - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature III"
A cuckoo sounds the hour of rest - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"
His silence sweet with sounds - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
The sound of dawn's first sacrifice - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Raptures through logs of sound - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"
The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
No sound across a windless sky - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Sound like liars to the young - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
And blessings in a storm of sound - Toru Dutt "Savitri"
Sweet as the sound of a calf - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 14. E-Gida, the Temple of Ninazu in Enegir" transl. by Sophus Helle
Where we drown to the sound of lullabies - Heid E. Erdich "Sisters Stay on the Other Side"
The sound of a promise breaking - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star"
Like the motion of sound or sight - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
And rings perhaps with hollow sound - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
The sounds of their own grief - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"
Listening for sounds that will never be made again - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
With dauntless feet and sound of silver bells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
The sound of my immaterial twin - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen b"
Vortex streets of cylindrical sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
No sound to the forgetting - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"
How hollow the sound left behind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"
Drowning the sound of your retreat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"
A sound without dimension - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
Zigzagging pressed sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen F"
Eroding edge of unattainable sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen G"
Bidding earthly sounds grow dumb - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
Sleep to the sound of it - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
as soon as the sound stops shaking in the ocean salt air - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Sound of insects carried with me - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"
Sound the spiral of a flute - Zona Gale "To a Poet"
And fails like sound - Zona Gale "Wonder"
The sound of my heart finally opening - Andrea Gibson "Letter to the Editor"
O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The sorrow of thirsting for sounds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Summer Songs"
The curve of your throat is a troubling sound - Mona Gould "Women are Like That"
When I sound the fairy call - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"
Comes with the sound of breaking chains - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
The likeness of substance and sound - Linda Gregerson "Slip"
Some silver thread of sound - Ivor Gurney "Old Martinmas Eve"
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]
Autumn crickets sound their willful cries - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
Every sound moves memories - Thomas Hardy "A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence"
Till it catch the sound of that western sea - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
In an ocean of telephone sound - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: III. Drowning Horses"
The sound of a thousand silences - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Echoes of sound flooding the earth - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
Navigate by sound magnified through muscle - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
A sound of gathering tumult - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"
Prophetic sounds along the earthquake's path - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"
Their subtly colored chips of sound - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
Stood outside the gates of permissible sound - Brenda Hillman "Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind"
Lifts the sound of ancestral migrations - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
And shook the forest with his sound - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
An owl from nowhere with no sound - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Through all the web of sound - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
While through the sounding sky - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
The witchcraft of harmonic sound - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
And Truth walk down the sounding aisles - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
In the ocean where'er the plummets sound - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Hope sounds like the adult word for magic - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Misers of sound and syllable - John James "April, Andromeda"
To open them without a sound - Allison Eir Jenks "The Prisoner"
Disappeared into sound dressed in gray - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Sounds of the sands have sped - Emily Pauline Johnson "Good-Bye"
To sound their glamouring haze - James Weldon Johnson "Her Eyes Twin Pools"
If echoes are shadows of sounds - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"
The cicadas sounding out the future - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
Sounding out the future through repetition - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
the tiny sounds of faraway birds - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
through a downpour of sound - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
Sent sound in all directions - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"
Grey silk sound pulled out by hooks - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"
The sound of teeth just shy of sinew - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"
And the sound of perpetual praise - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Told by the sound of bells - Lawrence Joseph "A Fable"
A dry scatter and sound of snares - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
Unspoken because nothing makes a sound - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"
Wrapped in a mist of sound - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Sounded out by ant feet - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Spirit of all sweet sounds - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"
The laugh with silver sound - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the dawn]"
Wakes with its joyous sound the soul of mirth - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"
Every sound of war triumphant - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"
Sounds of loud and fierce commotion - Henry Kendall "Australian War Song"
This testament offers no sound or silence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
That only jarring sounds had heard - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
a goose opens its chest to a sound - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"
Our stories all sound alike - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
breaking space and time with an iron sound - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
And sound, like ropes of heat - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
The veering sound of bells - Archibald Lampman "Storm"
In a bubble of sound and self - Michael Lauchlan "Haul"
Like sound plays the Guitar - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"
Sobs of love whose sound appalls - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Mock each sound of human woe - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
The organ sounding off the melody - Keith Leonard "Museum"
The sound shall echo ever when we shall have passed away - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Turn it into fire or the sound of fire - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
With stabbing wounds of bitter sound - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
His chest a cavern of hollow sound - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Hoping the sound spins into a tune - Tariq Luthun "After Spending an Evening in November Trying to Convince My Mother We'll Be Fine"
Your kingdom of murmurous sound - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Song of the Sleeper"
The sound of your coming feet - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
The tender sound of seashells - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"
My song shall not sound cold to him - Katherine Mansfield "The Earth-Child in the Grass"
My electrons black with heat and sound - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
And haunted by its sea of sound - George Martin "Aspiration"
No sound of muffled drum - George Martin "Charles Heavysege"
Solitary, the clock circumvents sound - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
When sounds exchange questions - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
Half blind with the same sound - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
This night of joyous sounds - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Moonlit blowhole plumes of sound - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Re-echoed in the liquid sound - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
The silver chain of sound - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Evolved of sound into sight - George Meredith "Melampus"
Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"
Translates from those rags of sound - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"
The sounds remembered by water - M.S. Merwin "The Cisterns"
The sound of blue at night - W.S. Merwin "Coming to Hear"
Threads of old sound heard - W.S. Merwin "Remembering"
Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"
Everything shimmers with the sound of the train - Joseph Millar "One Day"
The sound of the train rattling over the bridge - Joseph Millar "One Day"
The sound of cold sweet water - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet V from Second April
Sounded the keynote against you - Carlos Montezuma "I Have Stood Up for You"
Unable to shake the sounds of leaving - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
The subtle sound of survival - jessica Care moore "Mixed"
Sound the cosmic depths for the measure of glory - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Poseidon's voice sounds in the storm - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
My tree beneath all sound - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"
A hive without sound - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid
Dressed in gray and bitter sounds - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
Pensive light and wistful sound - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
The sound of sun-steeped weather - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
know the sound of smoke - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
Bigger weapons to sound the void - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Sounds of nothingness strung between - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
With a sound that bleached me - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"
The lonely sound of ice - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"
Builded without the sound of hammer or chisel - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Sounds the sweetest of all silvery tones - P. "Sonnet: On Overhearing a Little Child (a Visitor) Saying 'Mamma' in the Next Room" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 24 April 1852]
That a simple sound should reach so deep - P. "Sonnet: On Overhearing a Little Child (a Visitor) Saying 'Mamma' in the Next Room" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 24 April 1852]
Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
The perilous sound of hail on a tin roof - Linda Pastan "Ah, Friend"
That flutter with a living sound - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
An elegant verticality of sound - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Touching the colorful cacophony of sounds - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
The sound of sadness stepping barefoot - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Walking toward the sound of water - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"
A cacophony of inverted sound - Xan Forest Phillips "Hull"
A glaze of cricket sounds & cool air - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Sound as cracked as an eggshell - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 06801"
Tunes the sounding lyre - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
With mocking voice repeat the sound - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Make bright music give forth a sound of pain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Rummage in the ash in search of sound - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Surrounded by the sound of darkness - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Want to have the last sound - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
Warm with memories of sounds - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Interlude"
Sound in your audacious symphony - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Running over my soul without sound - Lola Ridge "Secrets"
Lights that sound the sunset - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
the sound of your thoughts' running - Ed Roberson "Come On in the Song of the Changes"
That unnamed, tremendous chord Arcturus sounds - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Ascription"
Weigh anchor to the sound of psalms - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"
Then disappear in a hurricane of sound - Amy Redpath Roddick "Our Art"
The sound that held her listening - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
Follow the sound of thawing snow - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
Remembering your sound - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
The sound of honeybees and monarchy - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"
Their sounds a frenzied symphony - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
The true concord of well-tuned sounds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"
All measures of delightful sound - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Listening to the curious beauty of the sound of a million voices - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
A feast of sound and spark - Joyce Sidman "Welcome to the Night"
Like the sound of the moon - Marilyn Singer "First Good Snap"
The sound of bees perforating the air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
The harp of the forest sounds music - "Song of Summer" transl. by Kuno Meyer
To sound the silent skies - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"
A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"
Vanished at the sound of voices - A.E. Stallings "Extinction of Silence"
For the sound of insomnia - A.E. Stallings "Handbook of the Foley Artist"
The sound of a broken heart - A.E. Stallings "Handbook of the Foley Artist"
An echo that didn't make a sound - Frank Stanford "Vanish"
The borders of her sounding sea - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Some strange and wandering sound - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Follow with the sound of gold - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Flawed words and stubborn sounds - Wallace Stevens "The Poems of Our Climate"
A cycle of sound and pressure - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"
The sound of wind-borne bells - William W. Story "The Violet"
First of the village sounds was heard - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
In a cavern where no sound is - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
Or Pallas wake her sounding lyre - "Superior Nonsense Verses"
Making us drink octaves of sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 38: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Lulled by his flute's sweet sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Deer being mesmerized by a sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 218: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
The invisible boiling wind of sound - May Swenson "Three Jet Planes"
With cunning of sound unsought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"
The sound of time, the rhyme of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The ghosts of sense and sound and sight - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
If the sound rises from our dreams - Keith Taylor "The Cull"
The sound of a curse on the earth - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"
Too full for sound and foam - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Crossing the Bar"
The one sound under the sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
The first sounds that the earth heard - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
For a brave, red wave of sound - Louis Untermeyer "In a Strange City"
Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
All around the current intervened its sound - Mark Van Doren "Communication"
Burrowed back with never a sound - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Deeper than the dearth of sound broods over - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
A prey to the dull knell's sound - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
With hoarse and hollow sounds - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Overflowed with rippled floods of sound - Edith Wharton "Maiden, Arise"
The sound off the sighing sea - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
The sound of dreams is fled - John Hall Wheelock "Mirror"
Vex not the night with sound - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"
If the names sounded like home - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
What sound the sun makes - Katie Willingham "When I Ask the Internet if the Sun Is a Ball of Fire"
The way the horizon sounds - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
Only a sound of drowning in the dark - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
With his eternal motion make a sound like thunder - William Wordsworth "It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"
For all sweet sounds and harmonies - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Into the tumult sent an alien sound - William Wordsworth "Skating"
Melting objects, disappearing sounds - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
The only sound is the rustle of metaphors - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"
In the sound of colored glass violins - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Unless we are sounding a warning - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
Looking for the sound of another way - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
The sound of a shadow forgetting - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
A valley compassed with sweet sound - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Hooded cobra bound by hollow spells of sound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Expiring sounds of autumn - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Sounding nothing like water - Jordan Zandi "River"
The sound of an empty valley - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
To hear the merry-sounding reed - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"
A cup full of sea-sound - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"
Soundless.
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
The looped soundtrack of then - Carol Ann Duffy "The Map-Woman"
Cicadas for a soundtrack - Alison Swan "In Medias Res"
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