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Wrecked on separate roads - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

With wrecks of revel the floors were strewn - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

'Mid the wrecks of a falling world - Avena "Columbia's Banner"

Wreck of splintered wood and twisted wire - Paul Bewsher "The Crash"

The wrecks of nations, and the spoils of time - Robert Blair "The Grave"

An unpaid wrecking crew - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"

A wrecked and empty nest - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

Strewn with wrecks of baffled pride - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

In the wreck of that ruined world - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Dryad"

The mighty wrecks in that weird span - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

Chewed into the wreck of the world - Tina Chang "Lion"

From Daylight's wreck her gilded spars - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

A ruined wreck adrift upon a surging sea - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

The shattered wreck of my devotion - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

In thousand fragments shattered, wrecked and torn - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Lay naked to the needless wreck of Mars - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

A halo of repose around the wrecks of time - Delta "A Wild-Flower Garland: The Wall-Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Where life's best ships were wrecked - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"

Whose wreck no hand was stretched to save - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

O'er the wrecks of other years - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Only to be wrecked on ice, and sink - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

That hope which wreck nor ruin fears - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

Her towers of fear in wreck - A.E. Housman "Last Poems III"

Great rush of wrecked air - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

The wreck of someone else's memory - Saeed Jones "Skin Like Brick Dust"

The wreck of nature by my deeds prepared - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Battered wreck by tempests beat - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

Washed away the last wrecked fragments - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

The wreck of perished cities - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

All the bitter ruin and wreck of us - Fiona MacLeod "The Prayer of Women"

Amid the wreck of visions dead - Don Marquis "The Seeker"

The bones of many a wreck - John Masefield "Mother Carey"

May drift a wreck ere dawn of day - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

His creed a wreck of hollow towers - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

The usual wrecked cathedral of the mind - Carl Phillips "Everything All of It"

At the edge of a wrecked desire - Lynn Powell "Feedback for the Muse"

Amid the wrecks of truth - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Relic from the wreck of death - L. Rice-Oxley "The Opening of the Grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury"

This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Wreck of the lost human soul left free - Rennell Rodd "Actea"

The wreck of their marble glory lies - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Displayed the wrecks of its impetuous course - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

All the crimson wrecks of pride - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

Wrecks on its inhospitable shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"

Wrecked hope and passionate pain - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Stand unshaken at the helm of life's wrecked craft - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"

Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"

Beyond the wrecked armadas - Humbert Wolfe "England"


Faintly futuristic landscapes strewn with carwrecks - Rita Dove "The Bistro Styx"


Shipwreck.

Wreckage.


A wrecking ball gown - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

A wrecking ball swung an uppercut - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

The enormous spiral of wrecking balls - Matthew Zapruder "Never Before"


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