Potential Titles: Whistle

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A voice threaded through the whistling breeze - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

The whistle of species place in a jar - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"

Answer my soft whistle with a scream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

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

Before tornadoes whistle damage down - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

The sentinel marmot's shrill whistle of fear - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Close to the whistling ground - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"

Whistled like dragons and sobbed with pain - Ch'iu Chin "To the Tune 'The River Is Red'" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

Shout and whistle in the street - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"

The cricket whistling while the dewdrops fall - Walter de la Mare "Some One"

Whistled up past the Woolworth - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

The cruel wind is rising with a whistle and a wail - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"

Whistled from opposite sides of a mouth - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"

Whistles through her chest like bladed wind - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

And they could whistle a roundel true - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Two Little Birds in Blue"

Or some strange wind whistling hard - Joy Harjo "A Hard Rain"

Whistle along the skin - francine j. harris "sift"

Where the kettle whistles midday - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Whistling while time piles up - Hsieh T'iao "In a Provincial Capital Sick in Bed: Presented to the Shang-shu Shen" transl. by Burton Watson

The whistle of the quail repeat - Annie Fellows Johnston "Bob White"

And let the law go whistle - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

The whistle of a winter wind - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

The whistler's inhale - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"

Whistle down the corridor of your memory - Naomi Long Madgett "Small Wind"

Whistling on under the Winter sky - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Whistling from the other world - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Whistled with the warrior wind - Pablo Neruda "The House" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Though the blue jays carp and whistle - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"

An animated hiss and whistling wail - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

Fling it to a whistling lad - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

Whistling interludes of death - E.J. Pratt "The Conclusion of 'Rachel'"

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

In that hummed and whistled journey - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"

Wild winds whistle and snow is come - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Wild Wind Whistle"

And the quail whistle about us - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

The whistling mane of every wind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Whistle vespers to the wood thrush - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"

What Orpheus whistled for Eurydice - Humbert Wolfe "Orpheus"

To whistle mocking-bird replies - Elinor Wylie "The Falcon"

Heard the blackbird's jolly whistle - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

Playing the whistles of yore - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"


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