Potential Titles: Whirlwind

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Whirlwinds rend the howling air - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Ride the lightning, answer the thunder, penetrate the whirlwind - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

On the wing of the wild whirlwind - Charles Baudelaire "The Wine of Lovers"

With all the whirlwind's haste - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Mounts the black whirlwind - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

The whirlwind has no name - Terry Blackhawk "Out of the Labyrinth"

The cataract whirlwinds clash - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

To tame the whirlwind of the passions - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Specs [sic] in a starry whirlwind of desire - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

That proudly stood to meet the whirlwind - William Cory "Asterope"

The revels that your whirlwinds keep - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"

Where Time's whirlwinds race - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"

Bursting whirlwinds tear their rapid course - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

To steer a whirlwind - George Allan England "The Struggle"

The whirlwind billows around her - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The dazzling whirlwind of our anger - Joy Harjo "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live)"

The rude whirlwind rushes from its cave - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Restrains the whirlwind's force - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

His path a whirlwind and his breath a flame - Felicia Hemans "Heliodorus in the Temple"

Whirlwinds bear the dust of the plains - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Like a ragged whirlwind settling - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

A whirlwind dusting the windows - Conrad Hilberry "Danse Macabre"

Serves in a whirlwind - Gerard Manley Hopkins "41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]"

Leaves in the breath of the whirlwind - William Dean Howells "Louis Lebeau's Conversion"

With whirlwinds dipped in midnight - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"

A whirlwind of octaves play'd furious and fast - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

Lets loose the whirlwind's vengeful power - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

Whirlwinds buffet the horses - Li Ho "Song of the Sacred Strings" transl. by Burton Watson

Then they repent like whirlwinds - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Sudden ambush by the whirlwind - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Like a whirlwind on the trees - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"

The ageless breath of cosmic whirlwinds - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Materialist"

In a rush of whirlwind fire - Edwin Markham "Divine Vision"

A whirlwind and a blaze of swords - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"

The whirlwind road of song - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"

Shout defiant to the whirlwinds - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Inside a whirlwind of frustrating storms - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"

Bare to the beating of the whirlwind - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"

Burnt by Passion's whirlwinds - Lewis Morris "Vendredi Saint"

And whirlwinds of silent coal - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

But his soul was knit to the whirlwind - Herbert E. Palmer "A Sinn Feiner"

Smiled at the whirlwind, and defied the blast - Philo "The Tribute"

The will of a whirlwind - Lynn Powell "Gale Force Hymn"

The whirlwind through young wheat - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"

And pass where whirlwinds go - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"

Rides upon the whirlwind - Virna Sheard "The Shells"

That blazes on the Whirlwind's path - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

With whirlwinds sweeping all life on earth - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist


Whirl.

Wind (noun).


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