Potential Titles: Silence

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Who suture themselves in silence - Rasha Abdulhadi "sirens and silence"

A million heartbeats against the silence - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"

The silence that makes singing a miracle - Elmaz Abinader "The Last Lesson We Learn"

Doves originating in silence - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

To hear in silence as hearts do - manuel arturo abreu "Sound Has Ears"

Heard the lips of silence utter some apocalypse - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

In prim polar silence - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

Silence the mind's deserts - Etel Adnan "Night"

Awake from a bed of silence - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

As a voice is lost in silence - Conrad Aiken "Dancing Adairs"

Has become attentive to silence - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"

The cold silence of clouds - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Sifting the distances of silence - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"

The silence of lost Cosmonauts - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"

In darkness and perfect silence - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

From the silence so long and so deep - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

Flat silence on the air - Hervey Allen "The Bride of Huitzil"

The very pain of silence absolute - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"

Silence now her dwelling finds - Alun "Tintern Abbey" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Never found solace in silence - Julia Alvarez "Life Lines"

Here to shovel out the silence - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

Fixed in architectural silence - Mouna Ammar "ID"

A finger of terror has silenced it all - Lennox Amott "The Musician's Grave"

When silence turns the key - Maya Angelou "Now Long Ago"

Hung from a string of silence - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Don't let them twist your silence - Raymond Antrobus "The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame"

At the speed of silence - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"

Can't see past the silence - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"

Float face up in silence - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Filling the New House"

the best human conversation is the silence - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

An exploding silence - James Baldwin "Guilt, Desire and Love"

The most important ingredient is the silence - Taneum Bambrick "Saying I Am a Survivor in Another Language"

Breed a new brand of silence - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"

Irresistible silence on the edge of a ruin - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"

Silence itself is strategy - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

Silence kept sounding its silver bell - Mary Jo Bang "Staying Is a Form of Haunting"

The symphony of scalpels silenced - Mary Jo Bang "Sure, It's a Little Game. You, Me, Our Minds"

The silence of my deepest dream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"

In the sculptured undersea of silenced green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"

In its fence of silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "Along That Road"

let silence sleep between us - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

White silence like a nun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

Not the memory troubles our silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "Prologue to Old Age"

Within that hallway of silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"

Guilty of more than silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "Voluntary, Exile"

out of canyon silences - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

The palaces of doubt and silence - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

In solemn silence sleeping - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Bound by trials of silence - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

Binding spells of silence and hope - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

Teeth, tendrils, smiles, and silence - Sharang Biswas "What Is a Monster?"

Holding its silence like a bell - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"

Where in silence all is drowned - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

Widen out in the silence of air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"

Pushed down by silence - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"

Silence will pardon both of us - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"

Silence by the extinguished hearth - G.H. Bonner "Sonnet"

I said your name but silence answered - Arna Bontemps "Gethsemane"

Sounds not the secrets of its silences beneath - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

As a sound deepens into silences - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

Disappearing at last in silence's shawl - Julia Bouwsma "Annie in the Boat"

Silence is a muscle you open - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"

Wear silence as a tattered shirt - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"

A cotton silence - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"

To drink of silence like a golden cup - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"

After seasons of silence - Geoffrey Brock "You Are Here"

And silence must resume her power - Anne Bronte "Past Days"

In secret kept, in silence sealed - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

Rain and silence paid another call - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

Into the lap of silence - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Left silence in the world - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The silence of my heart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Into our deep, dear silence - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XXII in Sonnets from the Portuguese

Midnight in the silence - Robert Browning "Epilogue"

The deserted nest in silence sways - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

In this temple of green silence - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Visible silence hanging in November winds - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

Alone in the silence of disbelief - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"

Silence alone wears majesty - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

To song and silence blending - Witter Bynner "The Robin"

Parted in silence and tears - Lord Byron "When we Two parted"

Silence held my feet - F. O. Call "Visions"

Under time lives silence - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"

For the shriekings that pass into silence - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Clasped hands and silences - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"

In solemn silence swallowed - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"

And silence brooded low - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"

That in a golden silence fall - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"

Kiss the lips of Silence - Willa Cather "L’Envoi"

Out of the lips of silence - Willa Cather "Prairie Spring"

In the bell frame of your silence - Paul Celan [Untitled] (translated by Michael Hamburger)

Left to silence, a question rises - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"

Veiled in the mystical silence of stars - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Fire"

Behind the rich silence of red-running sunsets - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

Flood my music with your autumn silence - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"

Hummed between brief silences - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"

Silences from their long hair - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"

The right silence can be an action - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

When silence means being made a frozen sea - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Whenever there is silence - Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne "The Cry"

A silence over the void sky - Wilfred Childe "Sea Fairy"

An epithelium of silence - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Silence that deluged the larynx - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Let us keep our souls in silence - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

A silence proud and cold - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]

And even silence found a tongue - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

The silence of possibility seeking a voice - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

Another mile of silence - Leonard Cohen "Coming Back to You"

The poor side of silence - Leonard Cohen "You're Not Supposed to Be Here"

Listen to the ancient silence - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"

The density of silence - Billy Collins "The First Geniuses"

The silence of the stairways - Nathalia Crane "Old Maid's Reverie"

In the noise of Herod's silence - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

your eyes have their silence - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

against the strong silences of your song - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

The utter silence of the untranslated stars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"

Silence carries its own venom - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

Squared off with silence - Jim Daniels "Exterior with Quiet"

With layered silence and dust - Jim Daniels "Good Reception"

Silence leaked from her bones - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"

And bring a boon of silence and of solace - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

Fill my silences with your words - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"

The orderly silence of the wolf country - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

Scaled the fence in silence - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"

Returning to silence - Julia de Burgos "Poem to My Death"

Silence, like a billow, drowned - Walter de la Mare "Cumberland"

All but the silence gone - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"

Suture the silence behind them - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"

While time and silence roll - Katharine de Mattos "Portrait of a Lady (Unknown)"

Each brick house delineated a fence of silence - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"

Use silence to trap a devil - Toi Derricotte "Passing"

Sat in silence with the trees - Desdamona "Once and Future"

A continuously growing silence - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"

Sand flaring in silence as the iron strikes - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

His silence sweet with sounds - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Silence filling like a cup - Edward Dowden "Burdens"

So deaf to the Eternal Silences - Edward Dowden "David and Michal"

The blank and silence of the senses - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Silence and wise mystery - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

Silence flowed between us - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Parched silence without stir - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Whose bond is solitude and silence - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

October stood in silence - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"

A curved emptiness of silence - Max Eastman "To the Ascending Moon"

Out of your vigilant silence - Claudia Emerson "Photograph: Farm Auction"

Shrouds the mountains and silences the roads - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The lady who imposes silence - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 7. E-Kesh, the Temple of Ninhursanga in Kesh" transl. by Sophus Helle

My first love was silence - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"

And sink to silence, conquered by the storm - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

Will misunderstand my silence - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

The silence inside - Noah Falck "Fatigue Performance"

The silence inside the photograph - Noah Falck "Fatigue Performance"

The sundial told in silence - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"

The barrier of silence hold unbroken - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"

What silence I can't conquer - Camonghne Felix "Grocery"

Compounds of ripe silence - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem 4: RX"

Engaged in silence exile and cunning - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Silence of doubt, silence of comprehension - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Speak with silence across gulfs of silence - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Heed the wail from the silence - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"

Changed the silence for the glitter - George Blackstone Field "Recalled"

No silence known beneath the sun - Hildegarde Flanner "To a Tree in Bloom"

Through dull years of bitter silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

From your hostages to silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

In silent places an older silence broods - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Vibrating between silence and motion - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"

A reliquary in a wall of silence - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Waves of articulation and silence - Tonya M. Foster "Preamble"

Counting my sleeplessness in silence - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

Grants us by silence the boon of her roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"

Thread the silence with a lute - Zona Gale "To a Poet"

The silence flowers in song - Zona Gale "To a Poet"

Old varieties of silence and of wrong - Zona Gale "Violin"

Of silence in a little sheath - Zona Gale "Violin"

Still adored in this silence - brian g. gilmore "at malcolm x street, lansing, michigan (for earl little)"

Like the dark silence of night - brian g. gilmore "yellow school bus"

Her sharply worded silences - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"

Silence coming from the sky - Louise Gluck "A Warm Day"

For the birds to break their silence - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"

As I close my eyes for silence on a Wednesday - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

Fade in silence on a drowsy wing - Louis Golding "Derwentwater"

The clock's tick troubles the silence - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

My heart that rocks in silence - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

The silence of their vanishing - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

Quicken me to trembling silence - Mona Gould "Immortal"

To crawl deep inside the silence - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"

Silence poured like starlight - David Gray "The Mavis"

And their silence for myself - Leah Naomi Green "In Cleaning"

Not needing even our silence - Leah Naomi Green "Kaddish"

Into the plane of silence - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"

The sweet tranquility of marching silences - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Greece"

The vow of silence breaks - Marilyn Hacker "Lacoste IV"

Clean with silence - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

How to organize our silences - Nathalie Handal "Elsie"

Out of fear of the silence - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

Must be friends with silence - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"

The sound of a thousand silences - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"

From clustering pine and cedar a silence - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

A dreamer in the silence - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"

In the silence of separate fidelities - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Touch its silence - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"

Lie in the velvet depths of silence - Ben Hecht "My Island"

All I could give was silence - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Death Blow"

Ears bewildered with silence - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Night on a Mountain"

Silences that hang like Spanish moss - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"

The silence adding its six percent - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Bank Teller"

Hoards the seven tiny silences - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"

The length and weight and silence of the bereft - Jane Hirshfield "Ledger"

Two big planets of unpainted silence - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"

Counting the beaded silence - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

The haunted silence quenched - H.J. Hope "The Patrol"

Smoothing away with silence - Helen Hoyt "Rooming"

The song made in and out of silence - August Huerta "The Woods"

Upon the bulwark of its silence - Ishion Hutchinson "Rocksteady"

Their laughter flickering in the silences - Jess Hyslop "After"

Withdrawn in snow silence - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"

That more than silence bring - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"

A boon won from silence - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird"

Spring has many silences - Laura Riding Jackson "The Spring Has Many Silences"

To silence what was never right - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

A jump of the breath at that silence - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"

Stitched our little nest of silence - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Between Work"

Let silence drill its hole - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

Sail up the silence - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

Calling through the seas and silence - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

Never forgetful silence fall - Lionel Johnson "Celtic Speech"

Under the pure silence, earth - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

In the silence of our hushed hearts - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

Whose golden silences are stirred - Annie Fellows Johnston "Bob White"

keeping me company in the silence - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"

Divided the silence wide enough for music - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"

Silenced Beethoven with one paw - Rodney Jones "For Katy"

Silence has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"

Each door, a silence - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Through all the silence on our tongues - Tish Jones "There Was No Sun in the Room"

Disclosed by the stars and the silence - June Jordan "Poem About My Rights"

Your silence was a mask - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"

Through desert tracts of Silence and of Night - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"

To make of silence a language - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

A woman who speaks against silence - Ilya Kaminsky "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"

Silenced shrill blizzard voices' call - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Endurance"

Sits, and babbles thorough silence - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

When the frost has wrought a silence - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

When sleep and silence keep their watch - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

Exist in crystalline silence - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

This testament offers no sound or silence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Traveling like cool silence through the dark - Joanna Klink "New Year"

Into tombs of burning silence - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

Then sinks in silence the lament - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

The crystal deep of the silence - Archibald Lampman "Morning on the Lievres"

Silence and the sharp unpitying stars - Archibald Lampman "Winter Evening"

The scent and silence overwhelming me - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Wakening those silenced voices - Emily Lawless "Afterword"

Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Only the perfected silence of men - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"

Her lone voice speaking for the silenced stars - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

Who silenced the sparrow? - Mary Soon Lee "The Languages of Birds"

The window burn in silence - Stephen Leggett "On Poverty"

For a silence almost present - Denise Levertov "Intimation"

The dark road toward their silence - Philip Levine "After the War"

Slow fish speaking the language of silence - Philip Levine "Making It Work"

The breathy, unknowable voice of silence - Philip Levine "The Unknowable"

Urging the past out of its pockets of silence - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Long banished into silence and no time - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Brought him the music of silence - Philip Levine "Yakov"

Across the silence and the shade - Amy Levy "In the Night"

Silence more cold than the wind - Amy Levy "The Sequel to 'A Reminiscence'"

Against the day's blunt silence - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"

Spun away by the churning silence - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Where the Gulfs of Silence end - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Ripping the glitter of silence - Audre Lorde "Echoes"

Seize this intimate gift of silence - Amy Lowell "Dreams"

Not a pinpoint of silence between - Amy Lowell "Summer Rain"

Silence deepened by our echoing feet - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

With silence-sandalled Sleep - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Until all she had left was silence - Tariq Luthun "I Wonder About the Woman who Now Lives in the Balad Without Me"

I, long keyed to silence - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Presence"

Throw the silence of my spirit - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"

Until your heart can hear their silences - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

In silence more eloquent than hope - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

The hush of this supple silence - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

Recovering the silenced history - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

Eclipsing my silence - Corey Marks "Broken Music"

The sense of the silence in song - Don Marquis "The Pool"

Wrapped me in the scorn of your silence - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

That hedge yourselves about with silence - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

That die on the bosom of Silence - Don Marquis "Visitors"

And awful silence of the sky - George Martin "Marguerite"

Snow anticipates large silences - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

Go berserk with silence - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

The mightier silence of the skies - John Masefield "'Rest Her Soul, She's Dead'"

Those great powers of marching silences - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"

Wrapped up in silence - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Silence around you like a shawl - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Night with its silence oppressed me - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Peered among the silences of woods - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Deep silence and a deeper sleep - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

A silence no anger can shatter - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Orchards"

Enfolds you with a cloak of silence - Theodore Maynard "Job"

Weave a spell of silence for my voice - Theodore Maynard "Silence"

Watching silence rising from the dust - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"

The silence beside a barbed wire fence - John McCarthy "Toughness"

To be forced into silence - Raymond McDaniel "No, You Shut Up"

An old hinge creaking in silence - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Silence of the thunders locked - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

A new knowledge of silence - W.S. Merwin "Lament for the Maker"

The silence after your questions - W.S. Merwin "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"

In a new perspective of silence - W.S. Merwin "The Old Year"

The silence in the books - W.S. Merwin "Traces"

Between the earth and silence - W.S. Merwin "Utterance"

The edge of a silence about to become - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

Great silences and spaces - Charlotte Mew "Fame"

Utter silence and the empty world - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Calligraphy of the inexplicable silence heard - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"

A narrow silence in the park - Alice Meynell "A Dead Harvest"

Silence strays amongst the winds - Alice Meynell "To the Beloved"

Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

After a year of silence - Edna St Vincent Millay "Assault"

A rain that hushes the silence - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"

Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"

Hold that porcelain silence - Claire Millikin "Figurine"

Leaning into hollows of silence - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"

Our hands have shaped perfect silences - N. Scott Momaday "Nous Avons Vu La Mer"

The silence of deep canyons - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

And silence is your substance - N. Scott Momaday "Shade"

A silence pulses at her lips - N. Scott Momaday "Spectre"

A silence on the ancient walls - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"

Silence is scattered like a broken glass - Harold Monro "Solitude"

Far and near silence grows populous - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

In a silence of vacuumed, black-space sky - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

Makes room for the silence - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The silence remains kneeling - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Looking in like the crazed bells of silence - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

Floated in a silence that whirred and pinged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Until it bleeds dense lunar silence - Jaye Nasir "November"

Repeated in furious silence - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

With a needle and silence - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Heavy father of the world's silence - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The silence of these mountain coffers - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Converted to the silence of acids - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Vigil in the deep silence of victory - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Silence of water and wind - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Silences of a prison with a mad star - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A fish between space and silence - Pablo Neruda "Morning with Air" transl. by William O'Daly

The sea works in my silence - Pablo Neruda "Nothing More" transl. by Dennis Maloney

A word is one wing of silence - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XLIV" transl. by Rafael Campo

Against the black tower of silence - Pablo Neruda "A Small Animal" transl. by William O'Daly

And silence bleeds me dry - Pablo Neruda "Someone" transl. by William O'Daly

Which scissor at the silence - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid

Glacial orange blossom of silence - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan

The heir of the silence before - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIX" transl. by James Nolan

The shells that silence gathers - Pablo Neruda "There Is No Oblivion (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Silence peopled with echoes - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Silence of whiplashed weather - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner

Surrounded by abstract stones of silence - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner

Dressed in silence and yellow - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

A word is one wing of the silence - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"

Bids the leaves of silence part - E. Nesbit "Song"

Praised for the silence between his notes - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

I don't know who to blame for the silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

The silence of the shadows' makers - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"

Silence pours a solitariness - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

That calabash is pledged to silence - Grace Nichols "Ole Higue"

The green silence of the branching limes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Where Silence holds her sway - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Renounce the silence and reclaim a voice - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

And victor of life and silence - Yone Noguchi "Upon the Heights"

Shared the silence of the sky - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"

Imagine silence more powerful - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Wisdom"

The silence of frozen trees - Naomi Shihab Nye "Our Time"

Against the silence of the trees - Mary Oliver "Spring"

Silence that enchains - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Neglected Harp"

The whole alphabet of silence - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"

Silence goes unlistened to - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

Still fragrant with her silence - Walter S. Percy "Chambered Roses"

When the tide of silence rises - Craig Santos Perez "ars pasifika"

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

As if silence were a kind of spell - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"

Silence as vast as it is particular - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"

When the dream goes out in silence - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

Enjoying the silence of bullets frozen - Jon Pineda "Translation"

The bright silence breaks - Alexander Posey "The Call of the Wild"

Silence settle from the midnight sky - Alexander Posey "On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf"

In delicate opulent silence - Ezra Pound "Salvationists"

Its undersong of silence born - John Presland "A January Morning"

And trembled away into silence - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"

Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

In silence, we foretell the end - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "At the feast of asylum"

Both acts betray silence - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

Remaining in a courtyard of silence - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Could eat in our silence - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

Not a name or a silence - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Silence, which is not the same as being quiet - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"

Silence and the expectation of sirens - Charles Rafferty "Ellipses"

By silence swift devoured - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

And silence strings her lutes - Theodore Rand "The Whitethroat"

A tired outburst of silence - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [Is it possible to let the sleeping life seep into day--]

Let silence speak in my stead - William Reichard "In the Evening"

Governed myself with silence - Ariana Reines "The Rose"

The silence of a desolate land - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

A history of silence - Joan Retallack "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"

Silver in its silence - Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes "pitter/patter"

Silence rising fumelike - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

On her own terms in cold, in silence - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Leaving nothing but the silence and the absence - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

And anger but a little silence - Lola Ridge "Altitude"

Falls off the wings of the silence - Lola Ridge "Betty"

One in the vast coil of silence - Lola Ridge "Circuit"

Upon the silken silence of his feet - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Only in silence can one hear - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"

A floating bubble of silence - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

Silence as at the core of a jewel - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

The gliding silence of the vulture - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Out of the silence of wheels - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

The silence of keys and silvery hands - Lola Ridge "Fuel"

Under the molten silence of the desert - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The silence a compressed sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Alone into the Silence - Lola Ridge "Jaguar"

Eaves-dropping on your silences - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"

The silence shuffles heavy dice - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

Breaks the sleep of the silence - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

With a silence vast in weight - James Whitcombe Riley "Eros"

The heavy sum of silence - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

That fashion a silence of flowers - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)

A slumbering silence lies - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April"

Silence in the chimneys - Rainer Maria Rilke "Presaging" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The silence shattered by the laughter of the loon - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

That catastrophe of silence - Valencia Robin "Geese"

Announced as in a thousand silences - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

The song that the years have silenced - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

From out the silence of their unknown fate - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

The silence it attempts to punctuate - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Within the happy silence of my heart - Alice Wellington Rollins "Absent-Minded"

In silence then repeat - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

And tears of bliss in silence weep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Joined to the great sunk silences - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

Song and silence are not like these below - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

In the speaking silence of a dream - Christina Rossetti "Echo"

Silence lush with listening - Ellen Rowland "What Branches Hold"

Darkness and silence knotted to suspense - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

The silence of the height - "Sacrifice"

How do you translate this kind of silence? - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

Nobody knows the price of silence - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

Your silence is a sealed jar of water - Erika L. Sanchez "The Loop"

At the gates of tombs silence is a gift - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

Singing rhythms in silence - Carl Sandburg "On the Breakwater"

A silence that is kin to sleep - Margaret E. Sangster "Preface"

A thousand leagues of silence roll - George Santayana "Midnight"

The stone endures in silence - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"

Aware of silence heaped round him - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

The significant silence of empty mansions - Philip Schultz "Greed"

The loquacious silence of the dunes - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"

Where silence stiffens to rigor mortis - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

The silence we were promised - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

Tongues parched centuries past silence - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

May wait in silence & unasked - Ann K. Schwader "Wind Shift"

Wrapt in the cloak of silence - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"

In the silver silence wind his horn - Duncan Campbell Scott "Frost"

Silence resumes her ancient reign - Owen Seaman "Of Baiting the Lion"

How mournful is the silence - "Sean Dana"

Strung your soul to silence - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"

Locked in the silence of the heart - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Where the silences are spawned - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

The forests where silence has lease - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

Withdrawn in silence from the raging sea - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

To view the city wrapped in silence deep - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"

Silence has its own roar - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

Alert to what silence has to offer - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

As victors of my silence - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"

Silence fretted by cadent rain - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

Wade in your silence - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

We begin in silence - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

Burst through the gates of silence - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"

smith my silence to an iron gate - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

The surf rewrites our silences - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

Between silence and Sinatra - Bruce Smith "Garden"

The fiction of silence and a better self - Bruce Smith "Garden"

Where fall the snows of silence - Clark Ashton Smith "The Fugitives"

In vaster silence rendered mute - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"

Beech trees steeped in silence - Jean M. Snyder "Remembering (Locheven)"

Sit for seven days in silence - Richard Solomon "God Drives Home in a Slow Room"

Silence arriving like a train - Richard Solomon "Silence"

Stairs and steeples in the dreamscape silence - Richard Solomon "Silence"

August crickets steeped in silence - Richard Solomon "Storm (for TYD)"

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

Cruised among cold silences - Elizabeth Spires "Coelacanth"

Likewise props up scarecrow silences - A.E. Stallings "Sestina: Like"

The silence of the sky - George Sterling "The Black Vulture"

To enchanted silence flows - George Sterling "The Kiss"

The undying kings, Silence and Death - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"

Silence has half her will - George Sterling "Respite"

As love by silence hid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"

Lost in palaces of silence - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Seeks the silence of a vaster night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Silence of a rat come out to see - Wallace Stevens "The Plain Sense of Things"

Through moonlight and silence and dusk - Arthur Stringer "The Pilot"

Out of the silence of things unknown - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Still and glad of silence - Algernon Swinburne "A Landscape by Courbet"

Scattered husks of silence - Arthur Sze "The Glass Constellation"

How I balance silence with thunder - Arthur Sze "Salt Song"

Through the friendly silence of the moon - Keith Taylor "Through the Friendly Silence of the Moon"

How can I give silence - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"

Saved from that eternal silence - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

as I hear your silence transform - Laura Theis "Family Talk"

Touched the roar with silence - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

A sunny silence makes heart-music - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Smiles at all the wrong silences - Yvanna Vien Tica "Rites of Becoming a White Lady"

Blame not her silence - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

From silence we spill - Z.G. Tomaszewski "The Soul"

And makes silence pollute the air - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"

Thin flute music petaling the silence - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

No scarves of sleep and silence - Iris Tree "Streets"

Where silence drips from the trees - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Harlequin through curtained silence trips - Iris Tree "[When I am weary at the antic chance]"

The wound smells of silence and its blaring - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Between silences too big for words - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

The rain that cries in silence - Adil Tunyaz "The World in the City of Kashgar" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Naked, pure, and grave, unbroken silence - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

Sphinxes of silence, wraiths of mystery - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Silence shrinks deeper in - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

Where the green Silence laughed - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Like silence trembling - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

Brimming with silence and the stars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

The old school gods knew the value of silence - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Each atom of your silence - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Drawing silence from my throat - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

Around the shore of silence - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"

By the breadth of the blue that shines in silence - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"

For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"

Distils a charm of silence over all - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"

A lonely dove in silence flying - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"

To brood upon the sleeping silences - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Mildness held the keys of the colossal silence - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Influence of the silence and the shade - Paul Verlaine "En Sourdine" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

A razor sharpened with silence - Ocean Vuong "Thanksgiving 2006"

In the stitched silence - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

Has learnt your silence - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

The hymn that resides in our silence - Eric Wang "I Roll Up to the Club in a Gundam"

While sullen sacred silence reigns - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Whatever the awful silence must surely have revealed - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

Silence the bells disconsolate - Arthur Weir "Ode for the Queen's Jubilee. 1837-1887"

Poured on pools of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

On softest feathers of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Shatter the silver silences - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Washed up on shores of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

In silence were confessed - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"

In the proud silences forever - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Silence speaks the secret of the world - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

A shuddering sea of silence - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

In the silence speak one quiet word - Helen Hay Whitney "Enough of Singing"

Shadow and silence encompass our camp - "Wife of my Bosom" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Unraveled the silence of loss - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"

There is silence in the midnight - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "The Brothers: A Scene from '98"

Deep silence where the shadows cease - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

Leaving the scene in thrall to silence - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

Bend gravely and resume their silences - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

With love in silence shrined - Adolf Wolff "To a Friend"

Which shouts its tomb-like silence - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"

Tends toward the condition of silence - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"

Into the thorough silence - Jay Wright "Sasa"

Provoked by silence - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

And the eventual silences - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

Voices silenced, cries ignored - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

That chases the tail of my silence - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"

Silence is the tune of farewell - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Michelle Yeh)

Your horror froze-over to silence - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Winter silences us - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"

that sheaths its lethal secret in silence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

Without silence - Adam Zagajewski "Epithalamium"

Though silence always has the last word - Adam Zagajewski "Radio Street"

Silence stills me - Javier Zamora "Pump Water from the Well"

Stand contented with the silence - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"

Punctures this petrified silence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 6" transl. by Katherine Silver

Among voices and silences already muted - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 10" transl. by Katherine Silver

Only silence and green bones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 12" transl. by Katherine Silver

Tombs of silence in an annotated landscape - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 13" transl. by Katherine Silver

Licked by tongues of silence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 19" transl. by Katherine Silver


The scent of the unsilenced sea - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"


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