Potential Titles: Sing

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Hear the holes when we sing - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Father sings in the threshing ground - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

The silence that makes singing a miracle - Elmaz Abinader "The Last Lesson We Learn"

Owls to sing their own dark songs - Duane Ackerson "What If"

The children of my breath sing and sing - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"

Dew-drops sing to the garden stones - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Learn to sing with their hearts - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ode to Buena Vista Bilingual School"

Who sing in the wind with mouths of giants - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

Living is the plot to sing completion - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Inspire his inmost heart to sing - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"

Sweet sings the missel-thrush amid the crash - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

The forlorn singing of the insects - Ralph Angel "Sampling"

Woe to the nightingale singing in the mill - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Sings the song of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel from beyond the twilight"

Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Your soldiers singing in the street - Maurice Baring "Russia"

My heart had found a tune to sing - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

Our aches sing beyond joints and stethoscopes - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"

And, dying, sings a hymn - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"

Singing the torch song of the amnesiac - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

The birds that sing themselves the moon - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

Sing a silly song of apricots - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

I went forth to sing the city - William Rose Benét "The City"

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres - Laurence Binyon "For the Fallen"

His singing split the sky - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"

I am their breaths singing - Richard Blanco "My Campo Santo"

My still heart will sing a little while - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

The substance of the world began to sing - Bruce Boston "When Clock Is Egg"

A magpie singing on the roof - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"

So I can know whose names they're singing - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"

While birds refused to sing - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

Would sing while I was weeping - Emily Bronte "Hope"

The woodland minstrels sing changes of measure - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"

Dear singing river full of my blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"

How most hearts sing a murmur - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"

Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"

But the wind still sings the same song - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"

Birds soft singing through the shade - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"

Sing aloud the gushing rills - William Cullen Bryant "March"

To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Singing among the oak-leaves - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

In the singing of the bread - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"

My skeleton sings a song of seashells - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"

Where some mad siren ever sings - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

Singing at the birth of time - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"

To sing the songs that are immortal - Phoebe Cary "Otway"

The old wind singing through - Willa Cather "Spanish Johnny"

Cool green echoes of the voice that sings - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"

That sings beyond the verge of Time - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"

Hear the green sage sing - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"

A merry thrush sings hymns of rapture - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"

Where atoms sing to the void - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

if i am not singing to myself - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"

And all the blackness sings - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"

Radio town singing dead frequencies - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"

A bird's way of singing - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: XII"

The garden that sings - Hilda Conkling "Garden of the World"

Sing patiently all night - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"

A leaf-gray shadow that sings - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"

Hope's bright birds sing through them - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

The sweet Lark shall sing unheard - Rev. William Crowe "The British Theatre. Written in 1775"

Sing their mad hymns of triumph - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

down the singing reaches of my soul - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

All the wayward songs I sing - Olive Custance "Black Butterflies"

Sing to me out of my red fuchsia tree - Charles Dalmon "O What if the Fowler"

The ritual singing of sirens - Jim Daniels "Hit and Run"

Singing alone to the years - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Taut violin strings singing - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

Shrill evensong the cricket sings - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"

Singing round the root - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"

To sing of buttercups and dew - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"

Only Pan singing sweet - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

Where in to sing love's requiem - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Lost the right to sing in the street - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"

An axe shrill singing - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IX: April"

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

What song is there to sing me home? - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Would sing you the songs of our memory - 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"

With a hundred harps they sing - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

Sing to Boreas their mighty king - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

Until the lark began to sing - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]

And the rival thrushes sing - Edward Dowden "Compensation"

A lullaby the Sea went singing - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

Some birds will dare to sing - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Travel through the singing air of dawn - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Must not waste her breath to sing - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica: After the Dam"

Have no heart for singing - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"

Can name the birds that sing - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"

Singing under saffron skies - Helen Parry Eden "The Wind"

Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"

The cicada and dry grass singing - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

Voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

Still singing beyond the kingdom of the living - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

Sings to herald the spring - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author

Will sing among the hawthorn blossoms - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Sing to my garden, dying - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

Where the blackbird sings the latest - Ettrick Shepherd "A Boy's Song"

Sing to Charon in his boat - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"

Another thrush behind that glad bird sings - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

A sea anemone appearing to sing - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"

A smooth continuity of singing fractions - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed - Robert Frost "Our Singing Strength"

The mind whirls and the heart sings - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"

Where the wild season sings - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"

Sing all the songs of war - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Would sing on the other side of the world - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

Singing of unknown shores and far - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Singing lullabies of thunder and ash - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

A swift mouth that sings - Louis Golding "Portrait of an Artist"

Know for certain that angels sing - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

And thousands of voices will sing in pride - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

In the air Death moans and sings - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

Boldly sings the river-god - Louise Imogen Guiney "Down Stream"

Sole discord of the singing bough - Louise Imogen Guiney "Immunity"

Weird singing mermaids dwell - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"

To sing the song backwards - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Pines and bamboo sing in the wind - Han-Shan "[I look far off at T'ien-t'ai's summit]" transl. by Burton Watson

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

Sing what belongs to the water - Nathalie Handal "Granada Sings Whitman"

Sing it to the guardian trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"

But have no voice for singing - Edward Nathaniel Harleston "I Cannot Sing"

The lark sings loudest when flying fast - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Singing among young oak leaves - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"

Laughter of singing thrushes - F.W. Harvey "Happy Singing"

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

The hills break forth in singing - Frances Ridley Havergal "Led in Peace"

Who tore Orpheus when he refused to sing - Terrance Hayes "At Pegasus"

The trumpet that sings of fame - Felicia Hemans "The Pilgrim Fathers"

Bring our fear there before the singing - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Play and sing to Birds alone - Oliver Herford "The Wakeful Princess"

Sadness sings half a tune - Conrad Hilberry "Sadness"

And sing for the cold seed - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

Sing unto the world their hope - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"

That seraphs mimic when they sing - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Who sing unconscious of their song - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Sing it softly, for the song is wild - Langston Hughes "Genius Child"

And thirty singing furies ride - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

And thirty singing furies ride to split the sky - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

Yet sings, knowing he hath wings - Victor Hugo "Be Like the Bird"

To sing in thoughtful ears - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"

The birds sing faint broken songs - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"

Still singing his beautiful warning - Didi Jackson "Bobolink"

The singing thrush and lily know - Helen Hunt Jackson "August"

Made him captive to her singing - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Ballad of Yaada"

A single singing line of dusky song - Helene Johnson "The Road"

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

Who sings my name beyond the veil - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"

singing Gershwin in the backyard - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

That sing to sleep the playful twilight - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A peristyle of pines sings requiem - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A strong south wind in thunder sings - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Before his singing time is done - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

Sings past even the sadness that begins it - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

Singing pain - Louise Labe sonnet XXI

Is left to sing his song of woe - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Sing sweet songs to our mother - Archibald Lampman "Song of the Stream-Drops"

Stone by stone go singing - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"

I heard her sing in wood paths dim - Lucy Larcom "November"

I would sing as the canary passes - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"

Singing the song of motherhood - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

The moon no one sings to - Philip Levine "The Evening Turned Its Back Upon Her Voice"

The roaring of bears and the singing of dragons - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

While my limbs still sing steel - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

We joined the singing phoenix then - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

Mountains singing in all directions - Manny Loley "Let There Be"

Singing out within the crash of passing sun - Audre Lorde "Coal"

Toss your head and sing of tomorrows - P. H. Low "Ode"

Singing the miles behind him - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"

The lone sword by my pillow sings - Lu Yu "Third Month, Night of the Seventeenth, Written While Drunk" transl. by Burton Watson

The morn not waking till she sings - John Lyly "The Spring"

Sing your heart out at all that dark matter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

Sing against her thirsty stones - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"

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

The songs of singing streams - Douglas Malloch "Children of the Spring"

That have mermaids singing their histories - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"

The blackbirds were singing to the thorn - John Masefield "Enslaved"

Singing in the frozen void - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Larks are singing in the west - John Masefield "The West Wind"

Sand that sings its memory of glaciers - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Sing me her fate for a sign - John McCrae "The Song of the Derelict"

Singing in our ancestors' language - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Sing as th' winds request - James E. McGirt "Born Like the Pines"

Born like the pines to sing - James E. McGirt "Born Like the Pines"

As golden rain in the singing grass - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"

While Anarchy did sing her bacchanals - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

That sing his soul in stone - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

By simple singing of delight - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

They can sing with wings - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"

And the wren wakes into singing - M.S. Merwin "Old Walls"

That sings and calls but not for you - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Sing an unending song of lament to ourselves - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

Bid the soul of Orpheus sing - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

To hear the ground's singing - Jenny Molberg "Sound of the Spinning Wheel"

A silver pathway over the bar where the sea sings - William Moore "Dusk Song"

Singing every song that came to them - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"

The turtles cannot sing - Anonymous "Natural Comparisons with Perfect Love"

Every breeze sings lamentation - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

My violin that sings out of tune - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Singing your syllable of sap - Pablo Neruda "Midday XLVII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Crows sing sadder songs in this haunted land - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The dragon singing or just after - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

The past tense of sing is not singed - Hoa Nguyen "Diep Before Completion"

Sing her story beyond time - Hoa Nguyen "Sings the Wishing Well (the Ghost Well Cared For)"

Singing with a hard fist - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"

Sing down an empty road - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

Who can sing amid this roar of streets - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Singing songs from the wrong eagles - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Its old singing ancestry - Grace Paley "Night Morning"

To sing me sagas of your late delights - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

Sing the song of its own execution - Linda Pastan "Late September Smile"

The song I've been singing alone in this field - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

The symphonies of heaven sing - John Payne "Chant Royal of the God of Love"

Singing on towards the ocean - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"

The scourge of Singing Death - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"

When again the linnets sing - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

To at least go down singing - Carl Phillips "After Learning that the Spell Is Irreversible"

How they died singing - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

Less like singing than remembering - Carl Phillips "Tell Me a Story"

Each time she sings their secret song - Patrick Phillips "The Singing"

The thunder and the singing of the birds - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"

The cuckoo singing his heart out - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Sing on till light and shadow meet - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"

If you would hear the thrushes sing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Georgetown, U.S.A."

The anthem that the skylarks sing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Incompatible"

A choir of thrushes to sing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "My Choice"

Who sing the skylark's ecstasy - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Limitations"

A fey thin singing in his blood - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

And sings exultant with the Iron - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Rise up with singing roots - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"

The song I never sing - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"

Sings every crust of golden gleams - Arthur Rimbaud "Waifs and Strays" transl. not credited

With shouting and singing both - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

A thousand little summer winds are singing in the wheat - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"

And a million tongues of madness rose singing - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

Singing down the leafless aisles to the budding year - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"

The shame I win for singing - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Dear Friends"

Heard a song that the wood gods sing - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Singing through moon-filled teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

Their songs wake singing echoes - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Where glad stars sing together - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"

Sing no sad songs for me - Christina Rossetti "Song [When I am dead, my dearest]"

Will sing no songs of bounty - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

Hear our bones singing - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Philadelphia Murals)"

Singing arch of my skull - Carl Sandburg "In Tall Grass"

Singing rhythms in silence - Carl Sandburg "On the Breakwater"

Singing his way out of hell - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Sing with the owl to the harvest moon - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"

What tongue shall sing this truth? - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

Drift & sing the death of starlight - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

Under Venus sings the vesper sparrow - Duncan Campbell Scott "The Fifteenth of April"

The owl from the steeple sing - Sir Walter Scott "Proud Maisie"

The owl from the steeple sing welcome - Sir Walter Scott "Proud Maisie"

Sweet the linnet sing repose - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"

Singing his glad, mad songs of earth - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

The stars sing an anthem of glory - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"

Sing them an endless lullaby - Virna Sheard "The Sea"

Who sing from a distant place - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

The only ones still singing are the frogs - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"

You who make the forest sing - Joyce Sidman "Welcome to the Night"

Milton sings with drooping spheres about him - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

A choir singing on a single stem - Richard Solomon "Carrying Orchids in the Rain"

The blackbird sings at the frontier of his music - A.E. Stallings "Blackbird Etude"

Or sing them for spite - A.E. Stallings "Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Ascribed to Martin Luther"

Walking through the dark singing - Frank Stanford "Freedom, Revolt, and Love"

And bid the stars of morning sing - George Sterling "To Germany"

Through sun and singing pain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sacrament"

That sings in the sun to the brink of Heaven - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"

The singing children of her brain - L.A.G. Strong "At Punnet's Town"

To whom the Siren sings in vain - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"

As when grieves and sings a fallen angel - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

And sing a lullaby of promise and of comfort - Carmen Sylva "A Friend"

Couldn't sing to the common tune - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

must sing the name into existence - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

you are singing the door open for us - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

For one white singing hour - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

Sings only when it breaks - Sara Teasdale "In Spring, Santa Barbara"

That once was singing gold - Sara Teasdale "Let It Be Forgotten"

That strange song I heard Apollo sing - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"

A singing that has chords of weeping - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

And sing the glories of the circling year - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

Pierced through by far-off singing planets - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

In their singing overflow - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"

Singing of the present - Z.G. Tomaszewski "A Storm Divided"

The singing hungers of the sea - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Sing a blasphemous Te Deum - Iris Tree "[You pass as in a drugged delirium]"

When stars are singing in dark ecstasy - W.J. Turner "Soldier in a Small Camp"

All the sudden singing skies - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

Rise into choruses of singing gold - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"

Sing strife or rising moons - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"

Singing my light in a universe of endless stars - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"

And sings a dirge for dying souls - Thomas Vautor "Sweet Suffolk Owl"

Sing chorals in the sky - Charles William Wallace "A Choral of Sunset"

Yellow warblers in the deep trees singing - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"

Shall I not sing for sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "The Dear Mystery"

When every little gosling sings - A.D.T. Whitney "Brahmic"

Lure the nightingale to sing - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

No sweet-voiced bird will sing - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

What bird is singing in the dawn - Humbert Wolfe "Cleopatra"

These with the singing lark conspire - Humbert Wolfe "France"

To sing of pink-hued vapors - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"

Sweet fancies meet me singing - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"

No matter how loud the grasshopper sings - Charles Wright "Double Salt"

Singing water in a sieve - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"

Though sweet the careless warbler sing - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

The cracked tune that Chronos sings - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

Singing from breakfast to tea - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

this blue refrain sings of comfort - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

Bidding my lips to sing - Francis Brett Young "February"

Thin wings of fever singing - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"

Stopp'd my singing mouth with thunder - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"

In the limes the thrushes sing - Francis Brett Young "Song [Why have you stolen my delight]"

The whales sing their beautiful warnings - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

But the moon sings their music - Lisa Zimmerman "Lake at Night"

Without gods to sing the news - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver


Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"

Gilded dreams of silver-singing night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

In the sing-song of the butterfly aliens - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"


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