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Our calling permits no retreat - A.L.O.E. "Hymn of Industry"

Even retreats choose sides - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Can take a retreat from horrors - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

When even our retreats choose sides - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

The light retreats and is generous - Aria Aber "Waiting for Your Call"

To lone retreats and leafy cells - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"

prepare for me some green retreat - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

Even over echo's soft retreat - Cora C. Bass "May"

Retreats in a wall of brown foam - Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose"

The woodpecker sound of an old retreat - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

Blue with which the sky retreats - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

The last alchemist will retreat to a birdsong wood - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"

Retreat from the gathering frost - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"

The heart will not retreat - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"

Startled forests, helpless to retreat - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

At the point where words retreat - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

The blackbird has fled to another retreat - William Cowper "The Poplar Field"

Muddy boots of retreat - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Learn in the retreating - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity II"

A calm retreat of tempered light - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Safe-conduct and a proud retreat - Helen Parry Eden "A Parley with Grief"

The muttering retreats of restless nights - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

The clouds retreating from a perilous affray - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"

Drowning the sound of your retreat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"

How I should make a good retreat - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

My memories retreating - Jeannine Hall Gailey "To the Ends of the Earth"

Hounds scenting out the retreat of the stag - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

From the still retreat of virtue - Hafiz "The Divan "XVIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

From its verge there's no retreating - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

The trumpet that shall never call retreat - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

The last besieged retreat of love - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

Gathered from a lost retreat - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"

When the skies cleared and the waters retreated - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"

And thought of no retreat - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Thoroughfare"

And fade in their retreat - Francis Neilson "Sanctuary"

Like followers in the summer's slow retreat - Meredith Nicholson "October"

Turned my steps to the retreating hills - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

The march of this retreating world - Wilfred Owen "Strange Meeting"

Retreat to the few remaining forests - Mara Pastor "Entonces Mi Hija/Then My Daughter" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

Into the places where I retreat myself - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

Context for the river's progress or retreat - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"

A soul that treads without retreat - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"

At his approach the mountains retreat - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

Covering my own retreat - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Though summon'd to a lone retreat - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Old Watch"

Best charge and bravest retreat - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Best charge and bravest retreat in Cupid's fight - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Bow, advance, swing partners and retreat - Elizabeth Thornton Turner "The Pinewood People" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

And heave with their deep rustle of retreat - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

Dickinson retreating yet getting brighter - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


Some still-retreating goal - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"


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