Potential Titles: Cuckoo

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The sheltered cuckoo's notes - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"

Cuckoos mourn around the house - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles

A garden in the absence of a cuckoo - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

The wayward cuckoo calls aloud - "The Blackbird" transl. by Eleanor Hull

And the cuckoo called again - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

The cuckoo's simple shout - Arthur Hugh Clough "An Evening Walk in Spring"

The cuckoos beat their brazen gongs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song may never come together again - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song - William H. Davies "A Great Time"

From the clock popped the cuckoo - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

The cuckoo's voice on bending branch - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer

A cuckoo sounds the hour of rest - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"

And hears the cuckoo shout - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

Answered the cuckoo's folly - Helen Parry Eden "Cries of London"

Call of the corncrake, cuckoo, or crane - credited to an emigrant named MacAmbrois "The Exile's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Echo mocks the cuckoo's cry - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Shepherd of Cwmdyli" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Only hedge the cuckoo in - Fulke Greville "Love for Love"

Weather the cuckoo likes - Thomas Hardy "Weathers"

While the cuckoos in the fields did shout - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

That crow is flying after that cuckoo - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

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

The cuckoo from the distance cries - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

Spills from cuckoo-cups - Evaleen Stein "Up, Little Ones!"

Cannot bear the song of the cuckoo - Sun Yun-feng "The Trail Up Wu Gorge" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Translate the word the cuckoo cries - Edward Thomas "She Dotes"

Hailed the cuckoo's cry - Joseph R. Wilson "My Boyhood's Home"

Sits with the cuckoo at sunset - Jay Wright "Kumu"


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