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My heart had found a tune to sing - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

A brief wafting of a heart's tune - Lou Barrett "Cradle Song"

Whistling a tune between the plum and the cherry - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Tuned to the frequency of longing - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"

A robin shrills his lonely tune - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

Tapping and tuning the springs and sprockets - Carl Dennis "Bimini Queen"

Last year's sundered tune - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature VIII: Summer's Armies"

Pretty tunes the breezes fetch - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature IX: The Grass"

Like the weight of cathedral tunes - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"

No voice for tuneful Time - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

A tune of tears falling - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???

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

Tune his liberal wealth of song - Darrell Figgis "[Beloved, hast perceived a throstle tune]"

The fiddle's endless tune - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Dancing Seal"

In a silent spheric tune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"

A tune of quiet rapture - Gerald Gould "Oxford"

Your tuneful echoes languish - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

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

A constellation of hazy tunes - Nathalie Handal "Holy Cosmos"

A sea of ancient tunes - Nathalie Handal "Love Undone: Se Ou Mwen Vle"

Sadness sings half a tune - Conrad Hilberry "Sadness"

Tuned my music to the trees - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Some evasive haunting tune - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

The neglected Lyre to tune - Anne Killigrew "To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of Cleanor"

Their spines tuned for ascent - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

As if the sun were tuning the day - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

As the last tune burns down to embers - Joan Larkin "The Combo"

The whales roar in perfect tune and time - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Faithful as a cricket's tune - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"

My heart is tuned to sorrow - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"

Hoping the sound spins into a tune - Tariq Luthun "After Spending an Evening in November Trying to Convince My Mother We'll Be Fine"

Putting a tune to the shout - John Masefield "A Consecration"

A tune for the blood to jig to - John Masefield "Tewkesbury Road"

Out of tune with the times - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

Done like an ended tune - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"

Clanging like bells out of tune - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Disbelief"

My violin that sings out of tune - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Play a tune on xylophonic ribs - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 8"

Tunes the sounding lyre - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

Whistles aloft his tempest tune - Bryan Waller Proctor (Barry Cornwall) "A Song of the Sea"

But never may complete the tune - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Laying of Ghosts"

To tune their harps of light - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"

Take the harp and tune its wail - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

The history of tunes sung from the abyss - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"

Teach the eaves the tunes - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"

Runs to the rhythm of a dismal tune - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"

Choirs of taut tuned strings - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

When cellos shoulder the tune - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Couldn't sing to the common tune - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

The tunes from the chimneys - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Out of tune where music hungers - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Falter out of tune and time - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

Know again the tune of dawn - Humbert Wolfe "At Noontide Seeking"

The best tune of farewell - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)

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

The cracked tune that Chronos sings - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

Whoever tuned the radio to rain - Dean Young "Spring Reign"


From twain spheres with hearts distuned - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"


Fine-tuning the orchestra of lies - Airea D. Matthews "From the Pocket of His Lip"


The poet's star-tuned harp - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Sleep"


Hear these tuneless numbers - John Keats "Psyche"

These tuneless strains of wrong - Lewis Morris "Cradled in Music"


Tune up the poems performed to Marsyas' flute - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"


How untuned your lyre - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"

An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"


The true concord of well-tuned sounds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"


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