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


Drowse in the shade of their whirling sphere - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

The cool earth whirled to morn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"

Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Shakes the whirling planets with a kiss - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

laughter whirling from each tree - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

The mad and whirling suns of the searchlights - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Lord of the whirling wheels - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

Which so whirls in passion's wind - Charlotte Bronte "Preference"

Flee the whirling hum of London - Roger Casement "Verses (Sent from the Congo Free State in response to Mr. Harrison's appeal for the Restoration of the Elgin Marbles to Greece)"

Break in tortured whirling drifts - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Whirled in a perpetual damning wheel - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

Whirled and tossed into delicious dancing - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

Through the whirl of atoms and of force - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"

This whirling shadow of invisible things - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

From the tornado's whirl we safe emerge - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

A whirl of flame-stabbed smoke - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

In howling gusts it whirled - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Raw, gold coiling whirled against air - Carol Frost "The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh"

The mind whirls and the heart sings - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"

Where the light-footed dancers whirled - James Harris Guy "Old Boggy Bottom"

Whirl of winds against the amphitheatre of hills - Katherine Hale "Buffalo Meat"

This room of whirling atoms - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"

The whimsied breeze, zigzagging and whirling - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

A slingstone whirled for the desperate - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"

A moving Show of whirling Shadow Shapes - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Whirling fowl of penitence - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"

You're alone with the whirling cosmos - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"

Their whirling shapes accept no charge - Hsu Kan "The Wife's Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Into a thousand whirling dreams - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

In rapid flight as in a whirling dance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Taste the whirling of all things visible - Mark Irwin "And Now"

Whirled about the unconscious air - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"

When I hear afar their whirling laughter - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

Into a whirl of boiling snow - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

Whirling in dizzy trance - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"

Swim in eddying whirls of passion - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

From whirling atoms to evolve - Joyce Kilmer "Transfiguration"

A thousand forms of memory whirl - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Whirled pell-mell (while the echoes hurried away) - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Youth's Suicide"

In the whirl of seething passions - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Whirl round ten thousand rocks - Li T'ai-Po "The Perils of the Shu Road" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Gallop through the whirling mist - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

Whirling tanagers sucked in a wind-pocket - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

As the Devil's sabbath-train whirls by - James Russell Lowell "The Black Preacher"

Between the searing water and the whirling wind - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Weasel whirls through world like wildfire - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"

Through hours that whirl to dust - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"

Fixed in the whirling heavens - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

The leaves whirl in the wind's riot - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

Beyond the whirling moons and stars - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

Utterance of whirling words - Theodore Maynard "The Return"

Whirl fantastic in the misty air - Claude McKay "The Snow Fairy"

In the maze of the waltz's whirl - Louis J. McQuilland "Chateau d'Espoir"

In a whirl of voluble hates - George Meredith "Melampus"

The glint and whirl of swift wild wings - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

Whirled a joyous tempest down - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Flying through whirling foam beneath the gale - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Whirling clouds of glory - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"

Whirled in a thicket of fog - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

The whirling turbulence of her sonnets - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

Touching and whirled apart - Lola Ridge "Electricity"

Whirled betwixt their spinning bands - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

And whirl into a tranced oblivion - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Whirled amid the pillared frame of ivory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 3: The Ray II"

Of unknown voltage whirling on your axis - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Still whirling on their concrete bases - Lola Ridge "Morning Ride"

Whirled through in wild confusion - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"

Meteors whirling on their poles - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

Beyond the whirl of madd'ning cares - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

A million sparks were whirling - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

By jilting Fortune whirled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"

That whirl a circle of grey fire - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"

The jubilant whirl of their dizzy dance - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

A wild dove lost in the whirling snow - Algernon Swinburne "On an Old Roundel"

Snow whirled by the driving wind - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

On a night of whirling snow - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Whirl till our whim is won - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"

The whirling dust of their dancing - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


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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