Potential Titles: Hear

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Hear the holes when we sing - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

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

The last words you hear on earth - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"

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

To hear death passing by - Delmira Agustini "The Vampire" (translated by Alejandro Caceres)

My vast terror at what I can't hear - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"

Their ears will hear the Wakhan ridge call - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

And the foes of the King trembled to hear - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

A voice heard from the wrong end of a trumpet - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

The jury picked to hear your plea - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night - William Allingham "A Dream"

Hear a chorus in one voice - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

A call that requires you to hear your own whisper - Mouna Ammar "What it's Like"

Who hear the sprites from Elf-land call - Elizabeth Anderson "To EARL and GEORGIA"

Heard bees buzzing inside their skulls - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

The lark Lord Shakespeare heard - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

Not the wind I hear - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

Hear the bad news kiss the wind - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

Heard the iron weeping of the King - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

Hear the call from a hundred lands - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

Hearing how brief is the song - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Where winter had not heard of spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Mistake"

Can hear his own answered call - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"

Heard the distant horn of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

I hear it in the mighteous laughter of the sea - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

When nought but the torrent is heard - James Beattie "The Hermit"

Blake heard the asides of God - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake" [William Blake]

Heard the Angel-trumpets cry - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"

Hear Pandora fumbling with the lock - Paul Bernstein "Treasure Chest"

A symbol you alone could hear - Emily Berry "Ghosts (Homage to Burial)"

The mind-forged manacles I hear - William Blake "London"

Heard the fox bark through the night - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

For your fiendish ripple must be heard - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"

Hear coyotes in the outskirts - Jaswinder Bolina "The Reluctant Senator to His Provincial Mistress"

But I hear the beating of dead boughs - Arna Bontemps "Blight"

Hear you loudest in darkness - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"

Till I heard the nightmare brewing - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"

To hear ice recite The Iliad - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"

Hear the heart-beat of the hours - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"

And none can hear my secret call - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"

To hear the angry surges roar - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

Only one thing worth hearing - Nickole Brown "Parable"

The words I hear in the curlew's cry - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Regret"

Shall hear our mystic wings - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Will hear no praise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

And hear the tramp of thousands - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"

Heard the tree-frog foretelling a storm - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Woe to him who hears the calling - Frank Oliver Call "The Chambly Rapid"

I could hear my fear in their croaks - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Heard Mount Sinai's thunder roll - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"

Where echo is heard before the song - David Cecil "The Shadow Land"

Hear the green sage sing - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"

still too bright to hear - Lucille Clifton "alabama 9/15/63"

When in the inexistent void I heard - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XIV"

To music that I hear not - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"

Hear the edgeless sound - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"

Hear only your voice - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"

Hear clouds calling - Hilda Conkling "Clouds"

Hearing on the winds the passing knell - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

To hear the returning Rooks' caw of despair - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"

Heard a kitten in the wilderness - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque"

Had heard the pipes of Pan - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Answer"

who will their hungering whispers hear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Unworded songs and musics never heard - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

Hear the steel of a new century creaking - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

In the silence heard the night-bird's call - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Only wanted to hear the sea - Meg Day "Elegy in Translation"

Never heard the soil speak - Tyree Daye "Do-si-do"

Hear the thrushes all mocking him - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

Put our ears to the earth to hear the rumblings - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"

That heard the tale of dews - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"

Heard Present echoing her horn - Irving Sidney Dix "Plant a Tree"

Hear the river's dreamy rhyme - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"

I hear Night calling to the sea - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

The echoing rocks have heard - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Heard the sea-gulls scream for glee - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"

Songs the world will hear - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

And hear the enraptured lark - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

And hears the cuckoo shout - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

The sweetest songs we mortals hear - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"

Where bitter joy can hear - Amelia Earhart "Courage"

And the scream of the night hawk is heard - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Hear the uproar of their joy - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Note of horn in valleys heard - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Hear distance receding - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."

Hear eclipses' seasoning - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."

Amidst their chirping he hears words - Daniel Errico "Prescott Hawthorne"

Tears falling where no man hears - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???

It were freedom but to hear - Francis Fahy "Killiney Far Away"

Hear the sorry tune of time - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet IV"

Hear the paper thump on lost porches - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

And hear the sighing of the universal sea - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

That hears fire, train and echo and all - John Freeman "Shadows"

Close the windows and not hear the wind - Robert Frost "Now Close the Windows"

The ghosts of songs heard long ago - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]

Hear the music of its ceaseless song - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]

i hear atoms falling together and falling apart - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Have you heard what the banshee said? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Heard like the cracking of suns - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"

As Jason heard in violet seas - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"

There I hear the flutes of peace - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"

The birches heard him weeping - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"

We heard the lost curlew mourning - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"

All a busy world may hear - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

Heard her bee-hummed lullabies - Charles A. Gunnison "California"

Hearing out of tune voices scream - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

The voice we heard at dawn - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Grotesque"

Hearing the wolves of hunger bark - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Out in the Cold"

Who hears the hungry lion's call - Frances E.W. Harper "The Sparrow's Fall"

Just to hear the glass it breaks - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Hearing angel voices chant it - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"

Hear whisperings of the infinite - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"

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

A voice that drives the hearer mad - Oliver Herford "The Siren"

Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"

Hear the muscled twist of grief - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"

Steady your hearing to an inner music - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

So they can hear their enemies approaching - Edward Hirsch "Black Rhinoceros"

Hear my silent voice - Lee Bennett Hopkins "Painter"

When the warring voice of the storm is heard - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Hear the drums of morning play - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad IV: Reveille"

To hear such tunes as killed the cow - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXII"

The phantom Huntsman's hounds are heard - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

Hear the very essence of song - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

So quietly only a soul could hear - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Hear an emptiness in the wind - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

The tendrils of his memory clutch my hear - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

In a voice that all might hear - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "The Prophetess Sojourner Truth Discusses the Two Different Versions of Her Most Well-Known Speech, One Nearly Unknown and One Very Beloved Yet Mostly Untrue"

First hearing the siren's song - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Between Work"

Hear the maddening cheers of men - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

If all's true that I've heard spoke - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]

To hear the wind's footfalls - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"

As if only whispers could make the world hear - Patricia Spears Jones "SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen)"

Have to hear before they see - Rodney Jones "The Language of Love"

Heard me swallow the impact - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

When I hear afar their whirling laughter - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

Hear these tuneless numbers - John Keats "Psyche"

Hear the dusk burning from the sky - Vandana Khanna "In Captivity, Sita Contemplates Fidelity"

Hear the steel strike stone - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Hear the song of their collision - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Hear only his voice - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

That only jarring sounds had heard - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

Hears the careless foot of man - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

Teach the mind that hears their music - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The name I hear is mine - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Could hear a drum underneath these voices - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Hear the trumpets waken - Archibald Lampman "War"

I heard her sing in wood paths dim - Lucy Larcom "November"

Never hears their slow grey feet - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"

The stones that hear no steps - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"

Hears the humming of rocks at great height - Philip Levine "Breath"

I hear the chimes of tomorrow - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

Hears Dawn's faint footfall - James Russell Lowell "Phoebe"

Heard in the orison chanted by soaring bird - Francis J. Lys "A Summer's Poems: V. [actual title in Greek?]"

And heard the horn of Ivanhoe - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

The miracle song that few would hear - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"

Ancient Oak hears with ancient ears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"

Hear her million voices hum - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"

Hear the wind murmuring loud - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"

When I hear robins singing - Naomi Long Madgett "Next Spring"

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

Heard the thunder of your wings - Douglas Malloch "The Passenger Pigeons"

Heard the wind draw out of the west - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"

Heard a voice in the calling wind - Don Marquis "Haunted"

An eddy of pathos surfacing beyond hearing - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

Heard the trumpets blow in Avalon - John Masefield "Animula"

Heard the owl go hunting by - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

Hear birdsong as prayer - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Heard immortal trumpets blow - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"

To hear that sacred laughter - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"

Heard a story from an oak - Theodore Maynard "Of an Improbable Story"

Having heard bombs and guns - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Choose a way to hear the world - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Hear the weight of delirium - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"

Hears the heart of wildness - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Threads of old sound heard - W.S. Merwin "Remembering"

To hear that lonely passion of the rain - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Only the nesting gulls would hear - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

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

Hear a million alien gospels - Alice Meynell "Christ in the Universe"

Heard that song of the Jubilee - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

To hear the lark begin his flight - John Milton "L'Allegro"

Hear that whisper call you back - Rajiv Mohabir "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"

To hear the ground's singing - Jenny Molberg "Sound of the Spinning Wheel"

Heard the cry subside in vacant skies - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Hear your twilight tirade - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Overheard on Bedford Avenue"

Ears human enough to hear - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Transfusions"

Their spectral feet are heard to echo - Christopher Morley "Ballad of New Amsterdam"

The night hears not - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"

Only water's threat is heard - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

When I heard the voice of salt - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Salt [Elemental Odes]" transl. by Philip Levine

Hears the rose of yesterday - Pablo Neruda "Tina Modotti Is Dead" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Hear the Oread's laughter pealing - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Heard a fierce wind riding by - Meredith Nicholson "October"

Then good are such tidings to hear - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Heard the music of one law - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

Heard the tenor voice of grief - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"

The wolves' deep snarl be heard - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

In the house of hearing - Mary Oliver "Bone"

Hear the trees in their easy hours - Mary Oliver "Do the Trees Speak?"

Heard me in the captive water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"

Had heard their shadowy step before - Thomas W. Parsons "Stanzas"

Till sight and hearing ache - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"

When I hear us dream our futures - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

Naught save the dark whip-poor-will is heard - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"

Still hearing the voice of the sea - Katha Pollitt "Happiness Writes White"

If you would hear the thrushes sing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Georgetown, U.S.A."

Which only whip-poor-wills can hear - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"

Thousands eager to hear your views - Ishmael Reed "A Black Genius"

Heard myself in every cell - Ariana Reines "The Rose"

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

Heard now the feet of centuries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Who would not hear your third - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Hear the stars as a great roar - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

And hear the skylarks calling to a heart that's growing old - Lloyd Roberts "The Homesteader"

To hear the merry-sounding reed - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

Heard a song that the wood gods sing - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

The face not seen, the voice not heard - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"

Hear our bones singing - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Philadelphia Murals)"

Voices reaching for the hear of the world - Carl Sandburg "Mask"

Heard three red words - Carl Sandburg "Threes"

Never heard the call to shelter - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"

We who hear dull bells - Clinton Scollard "Sea Marvels"

And hear the sparrows calling - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

That all the market-place was thrilled to hear - Robert W. Service "The Man Who Knew"

Thorned whispers well below a human's capacity to hear - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

The lie I've decided to hear - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"

Hear all the rumors of the world - Carlos Soto-Roman "The Tell-Tale Heart"

When the north wind's voice was heard - "Spring" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Hears nothing but the white vowels of the wind - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"

Only hear the echo of a tone - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Voice of the Western Wind"

A chant of giants heard afar - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Heard the stars plot evil - George Sterling "Justice"

Even the robin could hear - Gerald Stern "Justice"

In my jagged cradle heard - Alfred B. Street "The Ausable"

When the bark of the black fox is heard - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"

First of the village sounds was heard - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The gleanings of his hearing - Marion Strobel "Collectors"

Hear the purple glens replying - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"

That strange song I heard Apollo sing - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"

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

The first sounds that the earth heard - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

To hear bold seraphs tell - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

That hear strange lullabies - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"

The men of dust hear bugles, breaking - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"

A dark hymn only the damned will ever hear - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Heard her heart's blood drip - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"

Heard the brown thrush mourning - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

Heard the stars rush by - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Did you hear the edge of winter crumble? - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"

Heard a pinecone fall - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Invitation"

Hear snowy voices crystal clear - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Snowflake Voices"

Hear the luminance of dove and deer - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"

Hear you over the regret - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"

Will never hear their whispers leak through the dirt - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"

Hears a presage in the ancient thunder - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

Has heard the message of the Rose - Helen Hay Whitney "The Message"

Heard the hawks at twilight play - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Hears the wild dogs at the gate - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"

And heard whispers back - C. K. Williams "Self-Love"

Heard her voice in a low thunder - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Trumpets heard on every shore - Joseph R. Wilson "Napoleon's Tomb"

As We heard your walls crumbling - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

Always heard chasms calling you - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

I heard a thousand blended notes - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"

Which they can hear who meddle not with crime - William Wordsworth "Mutability"

Long after it was heard no more - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"

Hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"

We haven't heard from the void lately - Charles Wright "The Song from the Other Side of the World"

Hear seabirds cackle like ghosts - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

His voice heard around the corner - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Heard the blackbird's jolly whistle - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

Look like you hear colors - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"


Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"


Half-heard like rain on pools - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"


A foreign laugh overheard - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

An echo overheard - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Overheard the curlews cry - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"


Unheard.


Wake not for the world-heard thunder - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXIX"


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