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somethingdarkerLet the shadows gather round me - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Visits round his herbs of grace - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Thus round the starry girdle of the year - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Round of applause for the sun - Francisco X. Alarcon "Tortilla"
On the rounds of a golden ladder - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
That round our heart-strings twine - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
Round the broad Rhine's unchurched billows - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
A round breath of hope keeping cover - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Glides the shadow round the dial - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"
Vapors round the sinking sun - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
And hang fresh wreaths round Newton's awful brow - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Drift round my bed like thistledown - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
Heavy bees slow rounding the wet plum - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
To fold enchantment round their hearts - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited
Set round with starry crystal rhymes - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited
Where all the freezing stars go round - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
Drew hearts round the keyholes - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Years their shadows round us raise - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"
Falling off the round, turning world - Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room"
While the beetle goes his round - William Blake "A Dream"
And fenced him round with cans - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Freezing mist round intellectual mirth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Bold gnats that revel round my solitude - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"
Rounding out the hundred rites - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson
Who come round our hearthstone - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Prowl round the stackyards with tinder and match - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"
The ice that gathers round my heart - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"
Her riches round them spread - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
And scatter glories round - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"
A net was woven round my feet - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert II: The Parlour"
Those sad relics scattered round - Emily Bronte "Hope"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
That creep round twilight corners - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
From the low earth round you - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Round the passage of the fire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Shedding a nameless horror round - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
The cormorant wheeled in circles round - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"
Round the bastions of our fate - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
Fell round them into dust - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Golden prospects round us rise - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"
Rounding luminous its fair ellipse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Turns round a stony face - Arthur Colton "When All the Brooks Have Run Away"
Wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
A halo round our home - Eliza Cook "Song for the New Year"
Crawling round the brink of hell - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
A Heaven ringed round with Hell - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To scorn the narrow round - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"
The burdened monster circled round - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Others perched on fences round - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Spreads desolations round a guilty land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And spread their guardian terrors round the land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And the wind's blighting breath howls round - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"
Geraniums and roses round me bloom - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Round Time's dial thronged the hours - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
As they orbit round her helmet - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
from huge trees drenched by a rounding moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Cluster round the young heart's shrine - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Shining clusters round the silent dead - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Round the stepping-stones the eddies ran - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Rounded by my own gravity - Meg Day "If You're Staying, I'll Stay Too"
And Hecate spins her daughters round - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Singing round the root - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"
Half round the world of woe - Aubrey de Vere "Epitaph"
Twilight drew her azure curtains round - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
Stun the woods and waters round - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
How the tones wind round the heart - Delta "The Sycamine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCI, v.LXV, Mar. 1849]
The round earth's imagined corners - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"
Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Wreaths they twisted round his horns - Edward Dowden "Europa"
Who paces round the brink - Edward Dowden "The Pool"
The rounding distances expand - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
A shadow round the head of light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"
Round these the blast blows keen and fierce - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
Impetuous round her axle rolls - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
A mighty halo round her silver throne - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Must go carry round the rain - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
With an anchor round his neck - Michael Field "In the Sea"
As a tiger round a camp - Michael Field "Real Presence"
Round all the scarlet ring - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"
Shades of death are round me closing - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]
The sparrows quarrelling round the lilac - John Freeman "The Chair"
With the gold of roses caught round his feet - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The True and Last Story of Little Boy Blue"
Sweeping round it with a flaming sword - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"
Something fine weaving us round - Zona Gale "The Bureau"
With scarlet flannel round - Zona Gale "Violin"
Doing the rounds in a cement courtyard - Barbara Genova "One Year Before the Time Jump"
All my wanderings round this world of care - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"
Moths that round the taper wheel - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"
Girt round the feet with gorse - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
That can keep horror bristling round the head - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"
The round red sun is the door - Kate Greenaway "Which Is the Way to Somewhere Town?"
Holds a world of woe within its little round - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
Who flings her royal radiance round me - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The night-wind trembling round the rose - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The ritual sacrifice of round birds - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
The morning round the bend - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
When the wind raved round the land - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
While round them shadows gathered faster - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
Flung their troubles round my door - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"
Whilst the blades of Heaven flash round her - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Rainy Season Love Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With joy unknown, circling round his holy throne - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
And thick oblivion gathering round his head - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
And roses tumbling round - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Old House and the Weather"
Gather the warm affections round - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"
Hung aloft the rounding moon - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Curled round a bough of the cinnamon tall - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Rain his fire and brimstone round them - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
In my round sea of tinfoil - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Round his mind a bright horizon threw - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
With serpent folds entwining round the stem - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
With ballast of round thunder - Richard Hughes "The Rolling Saint"
The lamps round pool of gold - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
A cloud wrapped with ivy round - "I Saw a Peacock"
Cares which hovered round my brow - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Wreath her chain round us - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "When Shall We Meet Again?"
A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Turning round with face unscathed - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"
Dark velvet edges them round - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Spun round in sable curtaining - John Keats "Hyperion"
Far round the horizon's crystal air - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Young hearts round this new life can twine - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
The rounding noon hangs hard and white - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
The ceaseless round of a gigantic harmony - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
The rounds of glare and shadow - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
Each star must round an arduous orbit fly - Sidney Lanier "To Charlotte Cushman" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
The wind's whispers round me roll - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
Round a white hearth of desert - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
At the round-turning mill - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"
Fevered fancies round me throng - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"
Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Sent round his cards for aesthetics and tea - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Round a plantation of Old Nick's - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
Whirl round ten thousand rocks - Li T'ai-Po "The Perils of the Shu Road" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
They reign in robes of magic round me - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: Reflection"
Wonders spreading round you like flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
In the perpetual round of strange mysterious change - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"
The round, grey stones of the market-place - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
And wreathe my hearthstone round - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Rounds the sharp knobs of character - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
And rounded with dead glitter - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"
Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Hopeful, round portion at the final bite - Maya Marshall "The Collection Room"
Splendors round my spirit wheel - George Martin "Aspiration"
Through doors that are forever whirling round - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hurled labyrinthine round the endless world - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Spun round the edges of the cesium quarry - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Plants its rounded profile on the gas-bright nebula - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Shark teeth round her neck - John Masefield "Mother Carey"
Brace the arms that help the winches round - John Masefield "Spunyarn"
Spaces brought round for viruses - Farid Matuk "My Daughter Among the Names"
Softly buckled round their toes - Furnley Maurice "Barter"
Round about the attic stair - Furnley Maurice "A Whisper Song"
Stands erect, though tempests round him crash - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Crowd round this lifted heart - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Round you Death his shadows dense - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"
Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
The chaplet round the brow of Fame - "The Misanthrope"
Round the dark fringes of the storm - Dugald Moore "Lucy's Grave"
As coils a serpent round the escaping deer - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"
Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
gathering round our hunger - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"
To dream a round of sunny days - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
And glisten round him in a silver blaze - Philo "The Tribute"
Spread with the round moon set for a dish - Miriam Clark Potter "Dreams for Three"
Gray fog folds the houses round - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"
Round umbrella tops gleam among the falling drops - Miriam Clark Potter "Umbrellas"
Taught them to bloom round my bower - Henry Scott Riddell "The Bower of the Wild"
Gather round the angry clouds - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Slowly creeping round the northern sky - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
Though worlds are trembling round me - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"
Eager whispers Echo round each cell - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Enchantment round each hidden bend - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"
Aware of silence heaped round him - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
When the wheel of time goes round - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Doomsday-storms rage round about - Friedrich Schiller "The Peasants"
The north wind round my ears - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"
Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Stinging thistles round a haunted charnel - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Weave a chaplet round the brow of Spring - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Affections round its roots with ardour cling - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Life"
Round the flinty shores of my bleak isles - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
Swimming round and round the centuries - Leonora Speyer "Gold-Fish"
The Present lay like Eden round us - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
My crescent faith clings round the promise - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
heart-thawed for a new round of reckonings - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
A single shawl wrapped tightly round - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Waking breezes round the casement pipe - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Mirrors the harsh, round sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
In a sea of grief flow round me - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Ringed round with cliffs and moors - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
As she threw a glorious halo round them - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The round Zion of the water bead - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Thrice turn round and shut your eyes - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Where fancy twined her wreaths round judgment's stalwart rigor - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Builded round with diamond walls - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
The luxury of neatness round - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Curtains all the horizon round - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"
Round this world of glad and breathing things - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
My psyche can turn you round - Wa Wa Chaw "My Psyche and Wassaja"
Smother her round scream - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
Bring the light clasped round you - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
The dust of Hell lies round our feet - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Hangs heaven's echoes round her footsteps - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Slow rounding into calm - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Fling ourselves round with dust lilies - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"
Pensive round his sable shrine - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course - William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
All round the garden are ghosts - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Their bodies ringed round with zippers - Abe Louise Young "Who"
the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
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Visits round his herbs of grace - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Thus round the starry girdle of the year - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Round of applause for the sun - Francisco X. Alarcon "Tortilla"
On the rounds of a golden ladder - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
That round our heart-strings twine - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
Round the broad Rhine's unchurched billows - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
A round breath of hope keeping cover - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Glides the shadow round the dial - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"
Vapors round the sinking sun - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
And hang fresh wreaths round Newton's awful brow - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Drift round my bed like thistledown - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
Heavy bees slow rounding the wet plum - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
To fold enchantment round their hearts - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited
Set round with starry crystal rhymes - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited
Where all the freezing stars go round - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
Drew hearts round the keyholes - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Years their shadows round us raise - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"
Falling off the round, turning world - Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room"
While the beetle goes his round - William Blake "A Dream"
And fenced him round with cans - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Freezing mist round intellectual mirth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Bold gnats that revel round my solitude - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"
Rounding out the hundred rites - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson
Who come round our hearthstone - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Prowl round the stackyards with tinder and match - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"
The ice that gathers round my heart - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"
Her riches round them spread - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
And scatter glories round - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"
A net was woven round my feet - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert II: The Parlour"
Those sad relics scattered round - Emily Bronte "Hope"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
That creep round twilight corners - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
From the low earth round you - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Round the passage of the fire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Shedding a nameless horror round - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
The cormorant wheeled in circles round - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"
Round the bastions of our fate - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
Fell round them into dust - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Golden prospects round us rise - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"
Rounding luminous its fair ellipse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Turns round a stony face - Arthur Colton "When All the Brooks Have Run Away"
Wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
A halo round our home - Eliza Cook "Song for the New Year"
Crawling round the brink of hell - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
A Heaven ringed round with Hell - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To scorn the narrow round - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"
The burdened monster circled round - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Others perched on fences round - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Spreads desolations round a guilty land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And spread their guardian terrors round the land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And the wind's blighting breath howls round - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"
Geraniums and roses round me bloom - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Round Time's dial thronged the hours - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
As they orbit round her helmet - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
from huge trees drenched by a rounding moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Cluster round the young heart's shrine - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Shining clusters round the silent dead - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Round the stepping-stones the eddies ran - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Rounded by my own gravity - Meg Day "If You're Staying, I'll Stay Too"
And Hecate spins her daughters round - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Singing round the root - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"
Half round the world of woe - Aubrey de Vere "Epitaph"
Twilight drew her azure curtains round - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
Stun the woods and waters round - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
How the tones wind round the heart - Delta "The Sycamine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCI, v.LXV, Mar. 1849]
The round earth's imagined corners - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"
Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Wreaths they twisted round his horns - Edward Dowden "Europa"
Who paces round the brink - Edward Dowden "The Pool"
The rounding distances expand - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
A shadow round the head of light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"
Round these the blast blows keen and fierce - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
Impetuous round her axle rolls - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
A mighty halo round her silver throne - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Must go carry round the rain - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
With an anchor round his neck - Michael Field "In the Sea"
As a tiger round a camp - Michael Field "Real Presence"
Round all the scarlet ring - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"
Shades of death are round me closing - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]
The sparrows quarrelling round the lilac - John Freeman "The Chair"
With the gold of roses caught round his feet - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The True and Last Story of Little Boy Blue"
Sweeping round it with a flaming sword - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"
Something fine weaving us round - Zona Gale "The Bureau"
With scarlet flannel round - Zona Gale "Violin"
Doing the rounds in a cement courtyard - Barbara Genova "One Year Before the Time Jump"
All my wanderings round this world of care - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"
Moths that round the taper wheel - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"
Girt round the feet with gorse - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
That can keep horror bristling round the head - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"
The round red sun is the door - Kate Greenaway "Which Is the Way to Somewhere Town?"
Holds a world of woe within its little round - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
Who flings her royal radiance round me - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The night-wind trembling round the rose - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The ritual sacrifice of round birds - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
The morning round the bend - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
When the wind raved round the land - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
While round them shadows gathered faster - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
Flung their troubles round my door - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"
Whilst the blades of Heaven flash round her - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Rainy Season Love Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With joy unknown, circling round his holy throne - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
And thick oblivion gathering round his head - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
And roses tumbling round - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Old House and the Weather"
Gather the warm affections round - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"
Hung aloft the rounding moon - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Curled round a bough of the cinnamon tall - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Rain his fire and brimstone round them - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
In my round sea of tinfoil - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Round his mind a bright horizon threw - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
With serpent folds entwining round the stem - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
With ballast of round thunder - Richard Hughes "The Rolling Saint"
The lamps round pool of gold - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
A cloud wrapped with ivy round - "I Saw a Peacock"
Cares which hovered round my brow - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Wreath her chain round us - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "When Shall We Meet Again?"
A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Turning round with face unscathed - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"
Dark velvet edges them round - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Spun round in sable curtaining - John Keats "Hyperion"
Far round the horizon's crystal air - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Young hearts round this new life can twine - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
The rounding noon hangs hard and white - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
The ceaseless round of a gigantic harmony - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
The rounds of glare and shadow - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
Each star must round an arduous orbit fly - Sidney Lanier "To Charlotte Cushman" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
The wind's whispers round me roll - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
Round a white hearth of desert - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
At the round-turning mill - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"
Fevered fancies round me throng - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"
Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Sent round his cards for aesthetics and tea - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Round a plantation of Old Nick's - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
Whirl round ten thousand rocks - Li T'ai-Po "The Perils of the Shu Road" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
They reign in robes of magic round me - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: Reflection"
Wonders spreading round you like flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
In the perpetual round of strange mysterious change - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"
The round, grey stones of the market-place - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
And wreathe my hearthstone round - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Rounds the sharp knobs of character - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
And rounded with dead glitter - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"
Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Hopeful, round portion at the final bite - Maya Marshall "The Collection Room"
Splendors round my spirit wheel - George Martin "Aspiration"
Through doors that are forever whirling round - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hurled labyrinthine round the endless world - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Spun round the edges of the cesium quarry - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Plants its rounded profile on the gas-bright nebula - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Shark teeth round her neck - John Masefield "Mother Carey"
Brace the arms that help the winches round - John Masefield "Spunyarn"
Spaces brought round for viruses - Farid Matuk "My Daughter Among the Names"
Softly buckled round their toes - Furnley Maurice "Barter"
Round about the attic stair - Furnley Maurice "A Whisper Song"
Stands erect, though tempests round him crash - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Crowd round this lifted heart - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Round you Death his shadows dense - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"
Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
The chaplet round the brow of Fame - "The Misanthrope"
Round the dark fringes of the storm - Dugald Moore "Lucy's Grave"
As coils a serpent round the escaping deer - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"
Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
gathering round our hunger - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"
To dream a round of sunny days - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
And glisten round him in a silver blaze - Philo "The Tribute"
Spread with the round moon set for a dish - Miriam Clark Potter "Dreams for Three"
Gray fog folds the houses round - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"
Round umbrella tops gleam among the falling drops - Miriam Clark Potter "Umbrellas"
Taught them to bloom round my bower - Henry Scott Riddell "The Bower of the Wild"
Gather round the angry clouds - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Slowly creeping round the northern sky - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
Though worlds are trembling round me - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"
Eager whispers Echo round each cell - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Enchantment round each hidden bend - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"
Aware of silence heaped round him - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
When the wheel of time goes round - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Doomsday-storms rage round about - Friedrich Schiller "The Peasants"
The north wind round my ears - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"
Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Stinging thistles round a haunted charnel - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Weave a chaplet round the brow of Spring - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Affections round its roots with ardour cling - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Life"
Round the flinty shores of my bleak isles - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
Swimming round and round the centuries - Leonora Speyer "Gold-Fish"
The Present lay like Eden round us - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
My crescent faith clings round the promise - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
heart-thawed for a new round of reckonings - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
A single shawl wrapped tightly round - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Waking breezes round the casement pipe - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Mirrors the harsh, round sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
In a sea of grief flow round me - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Ringed round with cliffs and moors - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
As she threw a glorious halo round them - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The round Zion of the water bead - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Thrice turn round and shut your eyes - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Where fancy twined her wreaths round judgment's stalwart rigor - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Builded round with diamond walls - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
The luxury of neatness round - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Curtains all the horizon round - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"
Round this world of glad and breathing things - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
My psyche can turn you round - Wa Wa Chaw "My Psyche and Wassaja"
Smother her round scream - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
Bring the light clasped round you - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
The dust of Hell lies round our feet - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Hangs heaven's echoes round her footsteps - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Slow rounding into calm - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Fling ourselves round with dust lilies - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"
Pensive round his sable shrine - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course - William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
All round the garden are ghosts - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Their bodies ringed round with zippers - Abe Louise Young "Who"
the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
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