Potential Titles: Hush

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Some wounds cannot be hushed - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"

A grapestone choked Anacreon and hushed his song - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

A dewdrop fell in the starry hush - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Story of a Rose"

The breeze hushing the birds - Mary Jo Bang "Before the Absolute Perfection Dying Achieves"

And hushed of jarring elements - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Velvet fingers at midnight's hush - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"

The hushed air tense as a cry - Eloise Briton "The Acrobat"

Still hushed the season's mood - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"

To hush yesterday's demons - Ina Cariño "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"

Hush not one fervent strain - John Vance Cheney "Love and Youth"

The crying wind and the lonesome hush - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

The failing tongue of a hushing bell - Helen Gray Cone "The Ride to the Lady"

Hush all noises in the universe - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

Lost in the full hush of sleep - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"

Static hush - Kendra DeCola "Playlist: 11 Weeks"

Muses in hushed heart-vacancy - Edward Dowden "Ritualism"

Earth's complaint grows hushed - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

While we sit in mineral hush - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"

Hushed and sombre with imprisoned fire - Max Eastman "X Rays"

hushed in brief sanctuary by the dark - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Thunder's hushed gallery - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 14"

As hushed notes in harmonies - Zona Gale "Return"

Hushes the heaving wave all the year - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

With a pensive quietness hushes - David Gray "The Mavis"

Hush the raging tumult of my soul - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Pearls command the sky in hushes - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Hushed corners of endless rain - Nathalie Handal "Santo Domingo"

To hush the jangle and discords - Frances E.W. Harper "Songs for the People"

Through the hush of my heart - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Calling to Me"

Hushed and clicking to rust - Terrance Hayes "Three Measures of Time"

Like the hush'd volcano's power - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

The hushed belfry of the heart - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"

Walk with me in the twilight hush - Walter E. Houghton, Jr. "Love Song"

The moon's hushed excursion - Major Jackson "Selling Out"

Amid the hush of ages - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

Dies in the hush of distance - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

The hush of the golden moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Lost Lagoon"

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

Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"

And seal the hushed casket of my soul - John Keats "To Sleep"

Hushed into awe - D. H. Lawrence "Winter-Lull"

The hush before monsoon season - Aimee Le "Theft"

Hush me a lullaby - J. Patrick Lewis "Ab-so-lu-tas-ti-cal"

Whisper hush to eternity - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"

The hot gold hush of noon - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

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

In the hush of hidden hours - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

The hushed fox waits - W.S. Merwin "Harm's Way"

The mossed hush of ruins - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

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

A hush of paprika and burnt honey - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Wrap"

Hushed and calm the breezes lie - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

Count the hushed electrons blooming - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Hushed into a rapturous dream - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

That hushed and holy space - Lynn Riggs "Endless Legend"

Dispelling the hushed dark - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

In the vespers' milky hush - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"

The aching gleam and the hush of dream - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Mournful hymns did hush the night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CII"

Diminished to a hush of keratin and collagen - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

Hush the storms to repose - E. Clementine Stedman "Stanzas"

The hushed lips of Evening - George Sterling "The Killdee"

The holy hush of ancient sacrifice - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

And faced the hushed infinity of night - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

The hushed and silent waters of the deep - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

But only a hush of the heart - Sara Teasdale "It Is Not a Word"

As a hushed footfall in a long forgotten snow - Sara Teasdale "Let It Be Forgotten"

Borne on the hush of the wind - Sara Teasdale "Old Tunes"

Hushes the rocks to sleep - "'Tis Sweet to Roam"

That glance and sparkle in the hush of the lingering light - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

From the green hush of twilight - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

At the hushed brink of twilight - William Watson "The Frontier"

The hushed and the hurrying heart - John Hall Wheelock "Blind Players"

Through the hush of dawn a glad good-bye - Helen Hay Whitney "Beneath the Moon"

Now in the hush of the heart - Humbert Wolfe "The Drift of the Lute"

This hush love creates - C. Dale Young "Hush"


Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"


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