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A thousand mocking notes of mirth - H.J.A. "To a Lyre-Bird" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

The viol's pallid amber notes - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Waiting for the lonely piano notes - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Tones composed in probability scale notes - Mike Allen "Pulse"

Auctioned into bone notes - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"

The winding note of horns remote - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

With deeper eloquence than notes divine - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"

The sheltered cuckoo's notes - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"

The liquid notes of sorrow songs - Maya Angelou "A Georgia Song"

Between the unsung notes of night - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

Lost in a fire's spiraling notes - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

Utter a propitiating note - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

Sit in the overflow of grace notes - Lou Barrett "Notes on a Thursday Feast"

The deepest notes of life - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Song"

Steal one note from the silver babble - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Provide the only note of color - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"

Slender, cloud-voiced rings of notes - Maxwell Bodenheim "While Hearing a Little Song (Solveigs Lied)"

Loud notes against the night - Jari Bradley "Unruly"

The shape of a note starts with loss - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Broken notes, blending in a wild delight - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

But understand the notes through each syrinx - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

A note of ash & inquiry - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"

Each wild note of his glad refrain - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Shattered Hopes"

Notes from imaginary lovers - Sue Budin "Wanting"

Languages in verse and note - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"

Notes and aspirations bold - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Bidding the attuned spheres the notes prolong - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Nightingale with note of fire - Willa Cather "Arcadian Winter"

Lost in some peculiar note - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

The scholar's harp has a clear note - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Before the nightjar sounds his autumn note - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Cheer me with your warbling notes - John Clare "Noon"

A fitful note, clear from infinity - Arthur Colton "Wordsworth"

A freshly written eviction note - CAConrad "Pluto.1"

Fling our notes to the sun - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

Answering note for note - H.D. "Holy Satyr"

Cup its first and last notes - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

silent music notes falling into night - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"

silent notes falling into dust and darkness - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"

Notes forming the music of exile - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"

My footsteps like notes of ash - Kendra DeColo "Seville"

The notes themselves were sneak attacks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

The sparrow's note from heaven - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"

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

A name noted on the rolls of Fame - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"

As hushed notes in harmonies - Zona Gale "Return"

Each note the free birds fling - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"

The distant notes of the hunter's horn - Mona Gould "I Run With the Fox"

For other notes repine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

Brisk notes in cadence beating - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Deep notes across the sombre woods - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Alarmed by the heart's death-march notes - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

This knot is a folded note - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

To change the war-song's pealing note - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

The echoed note of a heart's sad psalm - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Slack Tide"

Notes from the lark I'll borrow - Thomas Heywood "Good-Morrow"

A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

The robin's mellow strain in wild notes gushes - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Every note of every lung and tongue and throat - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

A single passage of weak notes - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"

One blaring trumpet note of sun - Langston Hughes "Fantasy in Purple"

In silver thread and diamond notes - Langston Hughes "Flatted Fifths"

The last note of a clarinet - fahima ife "means of evasion"

The bleeding note of rapture - Helene Johnson "The Road"

One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

My half-eclipsed notes - Saeed Jones "Coyote Cry"

Makes note of battles - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

Pyramids of notes spontaneously exploding - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Listen now to that one note - Fanny Kemble "To the Nightingale"

All burning in the quarter notes - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"

By some ill-omened note - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

A high thin note trilling the frozen air - Philip Levine "Another Song"

Clear comes each note and true - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"

A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Single notes amid a glorious throng - Amy Lowell "Listening"

Pour her dreary note upon the solemn hour - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Blown on a bugle with an iron note - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

Must never heed the fascinating note - Claude McKay "The Barrier"

Jewels of ancient note - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"

Craved the trumpet's eager note - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Different notes as rook from wren - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Rusting around stopped notes - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"

To note their secret depths - "The Misanthrope"

The notes they've taught each other - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Few note that fatal bloom - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

A fugitive's note slipped quick to the future - John Murillo "On Metaphor"

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

Every note is charged with memory - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"

A most strange and melancholy note - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of a Modern Greece III. The Cypress"

Like individual notes gone mad - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

Notes that make darkness bright - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"

The notes of my glasshouse erudition - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Loose notes on tragedy - Carl Phillips "As Easy to Cry as Not To"

And joined their notes with whispering breeze - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Notes of despair unuttered - E.J. Pratt "The Conclusion of 'Rachel'"

All the covetous notes - Sina Queyras "Years"

Ringing in his fairy note - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "By the River"

The crooning notes of a lorelei - Herbert Randall "The Derelict"

Notes that resound in the caves of Sacromonte - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

Flung such luminous notes - Lola Ridge "Cactus Seed"

With soft notes of the arisen lilies - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

One dark note weaving endlessly - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

The space between musical notes - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"

Let a Fury borrow lyre, notes, and dress - Friedrich Schiller "The Muses' Revenge"

New notes of ghostly beauty - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Value in comparing notes - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Keep invention in a noted weed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"

A thousand errors note - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLI"

Her name soaring in a silver note - Frank Dempster Sherman "The Song"

Incidental notes to weigh it down - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

A flurry of notes from Mozart - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

Discordant Notes I mean to curse - John Spateman "War"

Notes and dyes of jay and towhee - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

As the linnet note in the heat of Midsummer - Edward Thomas "Words"

Your unrelenting notes flit by - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

A note in a tender sequence - Chase Twichell "Inland"

Each voluble note offers to guide you - Henry van Dyke "The Angler's Reveille"

A note of sorrow trembling yet - Henry van Dyke "The Parting and the Coming Guest"

Except a broken and discouraged note - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

The deep note of existence - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Whose notes still braid and weave - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Venezia"

Straining to win that soft sequestered note - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

With the capricious chime of interwoven notes - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

All the jarring notes of life - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

His fiddle to the moon with notes like stars - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

A filigree frost of frail notes lost - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

As brief as grace notes - Jane Yolen "Song/Birds"

Nets a flustered treble note - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"


We were footnotes on a charred parchment - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

A footnote to someone else's grandeur - Charles Rafferty "Forecast"

The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"


Freedom's sweet keynote and commission-word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"


Wrapped in a notebook leaking light - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"

Make my notebooks into sheaves of grass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Pages from my notebook of the damned - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu


The names those noteless burial-stones display - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

How noteless creep the hours - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


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