somethingdarker | Nov. 4th, 2011

Nov. 4th, 2011

( Wheel )

A long line of aerial cartwheels - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"

Cartwheels and hallellujahs - Dante Micheaux "Striking the Tents"

Enough to make the cartwheels crack - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Day's chariot-wheels upon th' horizon - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Escape from cog-wheel mandates - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

Pinwheel.

His fairy threshing-wheel - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love II"

Wheelbarrow.

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Breezes that set the soul awhirl - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

( Whirl )

Smitten by the wing of many a furious whirlblast - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"

Whirlpool.

Whirlwind.

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( Whirlwind )

Whirl.

Wind (noun).

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( Whole )

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( Whereon )

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( Wipe )

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( Whistle )

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

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( Wherein )

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( Whippoorwill )

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( Whirlpool )

Pool.

Whirl.

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( Whiskey )

Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

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( Whatever )

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No thick memory whatsoever of who sent her - Keisha-Gaye Anderson "We Dreamed You"

In whatsoever place we lodge him, the benignant power resides - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Whatsoever name may be bestowed - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]

Whatsoever star that guides my moving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"

From whatsoever depth of gold and blue - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

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And with these wholesome counsels begin - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Deeds like these no wholesome law prohibits - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Your wholesome counsels I approve - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Sad substitutes for wholesome food - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

In the wholesome north wind toss and play - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]

Day has broken Night's unwholesome Dish - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

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( Whale )

The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

the humpback whale breaching the slate screen - David Maduli "alameda point"

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( Whim )

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Whoever takes the devil's bait - John R. Bolles "The Story of Two Bulls"

Whoever does the telling - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"

Whoever does the tellling stops time - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Whoever ran pell-mell from smoke-witted man - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Whoever tuned the radio to rain - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

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( Whip )

Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"

Blowing along a dust-whipped road - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"

Taking a horsewhip to a swarm of bees - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"

One lone-wind-whipped weed - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

Silence of whiplashed weather - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner

Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Behind the wind-whipped branches - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

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( Whittle )

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( Wheat )

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( Whenever )

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Wherever the last domino of my body falls - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Wherever cowslips crowded thick - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"

And followed wherever the sturgeon led - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Wherever in the mind things go to be forgotten - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

Wherever Cupid might wander - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

Wherever the heart hesitates - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XV"

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Jingling tumult of white-hot rays - John Gould Fletcher "London Excursion"

Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"

The white-hot noons and their withering fires - Archibald Lampman "Freedom"

White hot in the shimmer of mirage - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"

White-hot glorious pain and a brash bronze pleasure - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

A gutter down the white-hot streets of Hell - Iris Tree "Flame"

Leaps forth white hot - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"

Hot.

White.

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When William Carlos' red wheelbarrow transforms - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [William Carlos Williams]

Our wheelbarrow groaning under a new load - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Take my nice new wheelbarrow and fill it to the brim - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

That and my new wheelbarrow soon get the haying done - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"

A jar of coffee and a wheelbarrow - Frank Stanford "Sunday Flowers"

Barrow.

Wheel.

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( Whence )

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( White )

( Compound Words including 'white' )

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Wherewith the jay hints tragedies - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

The live coal wherewith the Seraphim brand the Prophets - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Fire wherewith they crown the wintry heavens in frost - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVI. The Star Bath"

Wherewith the suns and worlds were dyed - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

The sweetest hope wherewith its paths are lit - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]

Although they are disposed to aid us, yet have not wherewithal - Euripides "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

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The whimper of hawks beside the sun - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"

When they heard a whimper down the wind - Rudyard Kipling "The Tree of Justice: The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"

My fists clenched proudly against a whimper - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"

Howl at the wind, whimper in the rain - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Her dreams and whimpers tangled with mine - Adrienne Rich "Sisters"

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( Whisper )

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( Whet )

Listened for his whetstone on the breeze - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"

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