Celebrating what "the heart already knew of quiet", "Concerning Song/Silence" threatens to ventriloquise not Heaney, but that other Irish bard, the Ronan Keating of "When You Say Nothing at All".
As Neil Sheehan, who covered the war in Vietnam for The New York Times, wrote in 1966: "My quiet worry concerns what we are doing to ourselves in the course of prosecuting this war... in the process we are corrupting ourselves... and I hope we will not do this again".
And civil liberties advocates are watching with quiet concern.
Mr. Murdoch will have to work further to quiet concerns among the staff at The Sun, several said.
Could it quiet concerns, prompted by the critically savaged "Cars 2," about a flickering of Pixar's creative spark?
A knee-length padded jacket covered her body and a look of quiet concern spread across her face.
It is, however, infamously unreliable in predicting football success — forgettable players have scored high, stars low — and there have been quiet concerns that it has a racial bias.
He sought to quiet concerns of Asian allies that the war in Iraq had distracted the United States from its other security responsibilities.
His habitual demeanor is one of quiet concern, and even on crutches he keeps up a gallant display of chivalry, opening doors and carrying bags.
Before the games, there was quiet concern that the emphasis on helmet hits would put pressure on officials, and would inject officials' decisions even more into the outcome of the game, where the N.F.L. would rather they not be.
Mali has been causing quiet concern in the UK for some time, as the intelligence agencies have monitored the disintegration of al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan and its reconstitution, in part, in Africa and the Gulf.
