Potential Titles: Noise

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The noise of dead men's bones - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"

Noise and bramble, thorn and din - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

An exile in the noise of busy markets - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 III"

A clock that makes a different noise every hour - Bruce Boston "Surreal Domestic"

Soldier wrapped in linen and thick red noise - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

Lives by noise unstirred - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"

My memory the only noise - Jericho Brown "Stay"

A grey overcast of noise - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"

I am the noise with deathly thoughts - CM Burroughs "God Letter"

The jackdaw's noisy company - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise - John Clare "I Am!"

true only to the noise of worms - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

In the noise of Herod's silence - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

a noise of petals falling silently - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

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

Make a running road of noise - Louis Golding "Jack of April"

Making a great noise to wake a dead god - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

Two noises too old to end - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"

Strange noises between roof and rafter - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"

Noises that fall through the yellow dust - Hsieh Shang "Song of the Thoroughfare" transl. by Burton Watson

With noise the night went by - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"

With all its solemn noise - John Keats "Hyperion"

Noises upon listless ears - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

Loud noise of passing things - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Focus on the bright noise of traffic - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Fill their trumpets with the noise - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"

What spirit noise this time permits - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

Noise of iron knits his steel - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

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

A red noise of bones - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Unafraid of the night and its noises - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

From voiceless noise - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

Red noise for a blue message - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"

Just above the noise - Natasha Trethewey "Self-Employment, 1970"

As children play who make no noise - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

Outshines the noise of leaves clashing - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"

Under the noise of hours - Eliot Khalil Wilson "While Waiting for the Bus"


The noisy mysteries of the universe - Julia Alvarez "Grand Baby"

Amid this noisy Babel mingle - B.B. "Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The noisy workshop of the world - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The noisy thunders of my heart suppress - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"

Much noisier than nothing - Julie Fogliano "Fall, November 2"

Through the noisy crowds of other conversations - Dana Gioia "The Argument"

A sparrow's noisy prating - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

Noisy, familiar, and safe by day - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"

All this strange and noisy night - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Banagher Rhue"

Noisy like a circus - Marilyn Singer "In the Theatre"

The noisy machine dissolves in the dusk - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"


Noiseless.


Spilling in the white noise of my head - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"


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