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Antiphon:
In the antiphony of afterglow and rising full moon - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
The night wind answering in antiphon - James Joyce "Chamber Music: III"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Aria.
Ballad.
Birdsong.
Blues.
Canticle:
Can still evoke the canticles of rage - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
The echo and whine of a canticle - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Uplifts their voice in canticle to moon and sun - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
Carol:
Where the gray linnets carol - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Ascend in ceaseless carol - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
Chant.
Chantey:
Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Concert.
Concerto:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
Dirge.
Disco:
In the forgotten astronomies of disco - Adrian Matejka "Map to the Stars"
Duet:
Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Epithalamium:
Winds of spices whose song is ever epithalamium - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XIII"
Etude:
From the solitary etudes of the soul - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Fanfare.
Folk Song:
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Fugue.
Hip-Hop:
Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Hosanna:
When a streak of grey engraves hosannas of moonlight - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Reluctant hosannas - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Hymn.
Jazz.
Jig.
Jingle.
Knell.
Lament.
Litany.
Lullaby.
Lyric.
Madrigal:
Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
Spill mirth in tangled madrigals - Don Marquis "October"
Mambo:
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
Medley:
A dreary medley of weary days - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
A crash of the strings and a medley of rage and mirth - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Violin"
In a medley of tongues - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"
Melody.
Muzak:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Nocturne:
A nocturne of toxic manufacture - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Compose a nocturne of cinders - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Obbligato/Obligato:
Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Ode:
Made grand odes of tempest - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Where the country has an ode's jagged edges - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Opera.
Overture:
Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"
Prelude:
When thrice-embittered fire proclaims the prelude - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
The prelude of approaching storms - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The beginning, some prelude you seek - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
Psalm.
Rag-Time:
Who rattles off a rag-time con - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Recital:
Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"
Refrain.
Requiem.
Rhapsody.
Rockabilly:
And realized rockabilly would never go away - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]
Rondel:
And they could whistle a roundel true - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Two Little Birds in Blue"
Roundelay:
Afford a subject for your roundelays - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"
Tell a rondelay in words of yesterday - Rudolph Valentino "Introduction"
Serenade:
Serenades us with explosive flares - Sue Budin "Totality"
As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - 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"
And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
Solo:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
My heart does a solo - Willie Perdomo "Hustler's Song"
Who can play a solo symphony - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 33 1/3"
Sonata:
Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
Turning bones into sonatas - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Song.
Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Symphony.
Tango:
No tango in its Rorschach - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Self"
Tango in the hot, ochered light - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Te Deum:
The treetops playing Te Deums strangely sweet - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
Sing a blasphemous Te Deum - Iris Tree "[You pass as in a drugged delirium]"
Threnody:
Who march to a weird threnody - Ardelia Maria Barton "Life's Music"
Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Replied in threnodies through bones - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Who wove their threnody with foot & flute - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"
Toccata:
Breaks into chaos toccatas & fugues - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"
Tocsin:
Strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Torch Song:
Singing the torch song of the amnesiac - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
The glass key of a torch song - John Wieners "Forthcoming"
Tune.
Verse.
Waltz.
Work-Song:
The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Yodel:
With an abject knight yodeling his head off - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Navigation Links:
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Antiphon:
In the antiphony of afterglow and rising full moon - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
The night wind answering in antiphon - James Joyce "Chamber Music: III"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Aria.
Ballad.
Birdsong.
Blues.
Canticle:
Can still evoke the canticles of rage - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
The echo and whine of a canticle - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Uplifts their voice in canticle to moon and sun - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
Carol:
Where the gray linnets carol - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Ascend in ceaseless carol - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
Chant.
Chantey:
Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Concert.
Concerto:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
Dirge.
Disco:
In the forgotten astronomies of disco - Adrian Matejka "Map to the Stars"
Duet:
Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Epithalamium:
Winds of spices whose song is ever epithalamium - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XIII"
Etude:
From the solitary etudes of the soul - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Fanfare.
Folk Song:
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Fugue.
Hip-Hop:
Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Hosanna:
When a streak of grey engraves hosannas of moonlight - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Reluctant hosannas - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Hymn.
Jazz.
Jig.
Jingle.
Knell.
Lament.
Litany.
Lullaby.
Lyric.
Madrigal:
Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
Spill mirth in tangled madrigals - Don Marquis "October"
Mambo:
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
Medley:
A dreary medley of weary days - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
A crash of the strings and a medley of rage and mirth - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Violin"
In a medley of tongues - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"
Melody.
Muzak:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Nocturne:
A nocturne of toxic manufacture - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Compose a nocturne of cinders - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Obbligato/Obligato:
Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Ode:
Made grand odes of tempest - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Where the country has an ode's jagged edges - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Opera.
Overture:
Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"
Prelude:
When thrice-embittered fire proclaims the prelude - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
The prelude of approaching storms - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The beginning, some prelude you seek - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
Psalm.
Rag-Time:
Who rattles off a rag-time con - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Recital:
Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"
Refrain.
Requiem.
Rhapsody.
Rockabilly:
And realized rockabilly would never go away - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]
Rondel:
And they could whistle a roundel true - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Two Little Birds in Blue"
Roundelay:
Afford a subject for your roundelays - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"
Tell a rondelay in words of yesterday - Rudolph Valentino "Introduction"
Serenade:
Serenades us with explosive flares - Sue Budin "Totality"
As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - 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"
And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
Solo:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
My heart does a solo - Willie Perdomo "Hustler's Song"
Who can play a solo symphony - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 33 1/3"
Sonata:
Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
Turning bones into sonatas - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Song.
Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Symphony.
Tango:
No tango in its Rorschach - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Self"
Tango in the hot, ochered light - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Te Deum:
The treetops playing Te Deums strangely sweet - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
Sing a blasphemous Te Deum - Iris Tree "[You pass as in a drugged delirium]"
Threnody:
Who march to a weird threnody - Ardelia Maria Barton "Life's Music"
Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Replied in threnodies through bones - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Who wove their threnody with foot & flute - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"
Toccata:
Breaks into chaos toccatas & fugues - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"
Tocsin:
Strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Torch Song:
Singing the torch song of the amnesiac - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
The glass key of a torch song - John Wieners "Forthcoming"
Tune.
Verse.
Waltz.
Work-Song:
The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Yodel:
With an abject knight yodeling his head off - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
