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Froze with terror's icy bolts - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Flinching not to flame or bolt - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Lack the rigor of a lightning bolt - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

That batters my bolted door - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse

Turn the key and bolt the door - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

The adamantine door bolted down - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Demon rust loosening the bolts - Martin Espada "A Million Ants Swarming Through His Body"

When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

Heavy with padlocks, bolts, and cording - Oliver Herford "Rudyard Kipling"

A bolt of brocade and foliage - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

From hostile fortune's bolts - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

The bolts that bar his heart - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Unfolds the bolts of your voltage - Joanie Mackowski "House Call"

One straight bolt can check - George Meredith "My Theme"

Beyond men's bolted doors - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"

All the despot's bolts and powers - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"

That mixes vodka and lightning bolts - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XI" transl. by William O'Daly

On the bolt of the shackled twilight - Pablo Neruda "Doctor Francia" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Like a hundred bolts of lace - Mary Oliver "West Wind 13"

Doors still bolted against - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"

Bolted doors that lock the corridors of Time - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"

Wait for a bolt of lightning's fire - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Eyes lock in deadbolt time - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"


To rob the iron-bolted tower - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"


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