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Sharp and melancholy discords - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

With the horrors of discordant sound - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

While Discord plays on life's guitar - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"

Long enough for discord to set in - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"

Set our ringing discords against celestial song - Susan Coolidge "The Better Prayer"

Sea-birds that cry discords - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

The monarch whose reft hand made discord ring - Elizabeth J. Eames "Pedro and Inez" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Wipe discord from this troubled star - Eleanor Farjeon "Colin Clout, Come Home Again!"

Sole discord of the singing bough - Louise Imogen Guiney "Immunity"

To hush the jangle and discords - Frances E.W. Harper "Songs for the People"

All in foaming discord tossed - "In Transitu" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

Discord without evolution - Alfred Kreymborg "Grasses"

The demon of discord our melody mar - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The echoes of his own discords - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Two Worlds"

Majestic discords greater than harmonies - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"


Of mystic, dark, discordant lore - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

A discordant chorus of weeping girls - Wendy Chen "Rites"

The discordant dialects of the frogs - Onyedikachi Chinedu "Snail-Picking"

Crash of engines and discordant mills - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

The harmonious echo from our discordant life - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"

The discordant breath of the risen - Charles Rafferty "The Untuned Piano"

Torn into octaves discordantly clashing - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Discordant Notes I mean to curse - John Spateman "War"


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