Potential Titles: Horn

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Horns at the gates of the apocalypse - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

Sleep's mellow horns are faintly calling - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

The winding note of horns remote - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

The huntsman's horn sounds from afar - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"

The horn that shook the mountain tall - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

The woodland starts to the echoing horn - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

Between the horn and the sting - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Dark Centaur"

Heard the distant horn of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

Heralded with a mellow horn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room"

A golden horn of light - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

And the lost horns of the taxis cry - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Horned dragons to bridge the ford - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Horned demons that leered in stone - Helen Gray Cone "The House of Hate"

Horns trumpeting over the flat-roofed acacia - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

And the horned snail leaves home - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"

Heard Present echoing her horn - Irving Sidney Dix "Plant a Tree"

Wreaths they twisted round his horns - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Columbine with horn of honey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"

Note of horn in valleys heard - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Shining abode of the twisted horns - "Erard Mac Coisse on the Death of King Malachy II" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The distant notes of the hunter's horn - Mona Gould "I Run With the Fox"

No horns of daybreak reach your rest - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

With his hounds and his horn in the morning - John Woodcock Graves "John Peel"

Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

And the merry horn wakes up the morn - "The Hunt Is Up"

The horn hits and flows through steel - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"

The dim echoes of old Triton's horn - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The golden horns of power - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"

Blow a different horn, burn a different bridge - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

And heard the horn of Ivanhoe - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

The horn wherein the thunders sleep - Edwin Markham "To High-born Poets"

The last echoes of Diana's horn - George Meredith "Appreciation"

Raised clear horns on a transforming sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

The gray-fly winds her sultry horn - John Milton "Lycidas"

with horns that fly in the wind - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

His seven horns of clear gold glowing - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Horns of plenty at my hearth - Ariana Reines "A Yellow Leaf"

Horn and scale both less and more than dead - Paisley Rekdal "Philip Larkin's Koan"

Blew a golden horn among the olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Roland's ghost winding a silent horn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

Horns of every pitch and color - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

On the horn of an Arctic moon - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"

In the silver silence wind his horn - Duncan Campbell Scott "Frost"

Each thought leaning on its horn - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

The harsh, brief sob of broken horns - Clark Ashton Smith "Dissonance"

green horned lord of my waking forest - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."

Remember the ram's horn baritone - Brandon Som "Resistors"

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"

The calves sang to my horn - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Ploughed it with a ram's horn - "Three Acres of Land"

Where honeysuckle horns blow clear - Mary Webb "Market Day"


The foghorn booming in his ears - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Through the lighthouse foghorns knocking - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

The fog-horn's warning tone wake echoes from the cliffs - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"


Through the spiral of a French horn - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"


Strains from that mighty hunting-horn - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"


Down on the sharp-horned ledges - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]


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