Potential Titles: Listen

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Listens for seismic echoes - Elmaz Abinader "Falling into the Ocean"

Listen for a green word from the redwoods - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Listen as deep as to terrible hell - Sir Edwin Arnold "He and She"

Became sharp flame to Shelley listening - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

Merely by listening to echoes - Mary Jo Bang "The Oracle"

Listen to the trill of cricket opera - Rachel Barenblat "Lake"

Caesar will listen with a little smile - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Listening to the prisoned cricket - Louise Bogan "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"

And listened to the words of men now dead - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

And every star seemed listening - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Listen to the earth beads in this abacus for bees - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

If you listen with sufficient generosity - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"

While the trees all listen trembling - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Listens at the ivory gates - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Down the Songo"

Listened like a field of snow - Andres Cerpa "Parkinson's Disease: Autumn"

Listen to the heart's sea - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"

Invoke the listening spirit to my aid - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

Listening to the quantum foam - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"

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

Settle on the porch of waiting and listening - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"

Crouched listening in the darkness - Walter de la Mare "Cumberland"

Listen to the sweet tones of glory - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Listening to billions of sand grains - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"

And listen to the waves' wild hymn - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Listen to the bell in the ruins - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"

Listens for the ghost years as they speak - Donald Evans "Epicede"

Listen to the rustling of mutant oak leaves - Kendall Evans "Oracle"

Whispered from one listening ear to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Warranted a new way of listening - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

Listening for sounds that will never be made again - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Listen to the distance - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"

listen for the thoughts of their lost mirror-images - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

Listening to a fresh access of wind - Robert Frost "Snow"

Listened for his whetstone on the breeze - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"

And the little stars are listening, too - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "Flower Babies"

When you come to the listening bridge - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"

The applause of listening senates - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Listen to the caves sing silently - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

Because no one will listen - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Listening for those whispers clear - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"

Listen to the echoes of my fame - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Bats listening for the cicadas' echo - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"

The ecstasy of madly listening - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "At the Window"

A listening fear in her regard - John Keats "Hyperion"

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

On the listening ear of night - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Listen to the immensity of the hunt - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Listen to the wind beg - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Surge"

Listening to the magic cry - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"

In the heart of the listening solitudes - Archibald Lampman "Forest Moods"

Spring's unquiet shadow listening - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

While trees unbent and listened - Ida Lee "The Drover's Vision"

Listening to the language of muck and exultation - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

The first word I say is listen - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"

Will listen for a day, a week, a year - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "willow"

Listens to the wind's mediation - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

The listening winds received this song - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"

And listening nature will breathless lie - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"

Listening to the gravel break its spine - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Listening to you recollect a lifetime - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

To listen at the window of the unknown - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"

For the dead do not listen - W.S. Merwin "At the Same Time"

Listen to the noise subside - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Listening to the wind and looking at the wall - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Philosopher"

Listening to a vanishing grief - Claire Millikin "Princess Coat"

Listens to the herald of the sea - John Milton "Lycidas"

Goddess of the silver lake, listen and save! - John Milton "Sabrina"

Let us both listen till we understand - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

Listening for wind-songs in the tree heights - William Moore "Dusk Song"

As I listen to its winds one last time - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

When I listen for what will not appear - Rusty Morrison "To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble"

While listening to my intuition speak - Erika Murcia "Decoding My Mother's Gifts"

Listened for the early arrival of blackbirds - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Listening to God's money falling - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Listened to all the sorrowful salt - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh

If earth does not listen - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Listen to the herons and the cranes - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

Spellbound, listening to the voice of Time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Listening to the gentle rhythm of motion - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

As if the sea could listen - Carl Phillips "Enough, Tom Fool, Now Sleep"

Permission to stop listening - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

My heart has spirit enough to listen - Po-Chu-i "On Being Sixty" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Listen to the song of your empty house - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

With only two moons listening - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

The sound that held her listening - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"

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

Listen for what comes - Carl Sandburg "Ears"

All the dead leaves listen in - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

collect our dead's leavings & listen - Sam Sax "Objectophile"

I'd lie and listen to eternity passing over - Robert W. Service "Heart o' the North"

Where the listening ends - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

Listening to the curious beauty of the sound of a million voices - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"

Pretends to remember to be listening - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"

Listen to the love calls of wild geese - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"

Listening to the whippoorwill - Richard Solomon "God Drives Home in a Slow Room"

Listening to the witching song - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Listen to hunting dogs in autumn - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"

Have listened to and lived with grasshoppers - Gerald Stern "Mimi"

We who listen to holes - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [who has never been holy]"

Listening to ice become water - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

I am still listening when you stop - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"

Counting crows and listening to cricket whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Listens at Fate's door - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"

Where lonely thoughts listen and wander - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Lie upon the plain and listen - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"


Silence goes unlistened to - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

All the streamsides and unlistening vales - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"


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