Potential Titles: Robin

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Song of a garden caught in a robin - Mary Jo Bang "Day Two of a New Bear"

A robin on the threshold - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Soldier's Home"

Keep track of each fallen robin - Leonard Cohen "Chelsea Hotel"

Only the robin perched on a thorn - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"

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

Or help one fainting robin - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life VI"

The robin in every human soul - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

Dreaded that first robin so - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIV: In Shadow"

How dare the robins sing - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XII"

Let angels carelessly with robins sing - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Given Fellowship of Angels and a Happy Heart"

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

The lilacs where the robin built - Thomas Hood "I Remember"

Low-built nests where robins sing - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

A nest of robins in her hair - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"

Calls back the robin's song - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

When I hear robins singing - Naomi Long Madgett "Next Spring"

Robins band themselves together - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

A hedge where ragged robins grew - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Perched with robins and jays atop the greenery - Andre F. Peltier "When War Broke Out"

Two robins fly out of the sun - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Even the robin could hear - Gerald Stern "Justice"

Robin, untwisting a song - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"


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