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To sweep aside the solid rocks of pain - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Adorned in solid silver and rare bright coral - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

A door with its solid assertion - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

To a solid unlit white sky - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Which out of water brought forth solid rock - "The Coral Island" [The Mirror of Literature v.10, no.279 (20 October 1827)]

The deep root of rage, sowing what is solid - Andrea Cote "Dear Beth" transl. by Sasha Pimentel

In solid cages of white ice - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"

The myth of solid ground - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

And the hurricane shakes the solid land - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"

The solid bastion in the middle of battle - Nicolás Heredia y Mota "The American Flag" transl. by Edgar Peguero y Heredia

Still identity more like a wave than solid - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

Joining the solid tide - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"

More solid than my memories - Shane McCrae "Lines Composed at 34 North Park Street, on Certain Memories of My White Grandmother Who Loved Me and Hated Black People Like Myself. July 15, 2017"

Solid as well water - Sharon Olds "Earliest Memory"

On settled poles turn solid joys - Coventry Patmore "Joy"

Consume in solid fire - Wallace Stevens "Esthetique du Mal"

Uncertain particles of the certain solid - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"

A stratum of solid blue stone - Su Tung-p'o "White Crane Hill" transl. by Burton Watson

Selves more solid than stars - Mary Szybist "Approaching Elegy"

Safe in a house solid as a mountain - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Hang across the sky like solid limbs of night - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

From a huge and solid cloud - Louis Untermeyer "The Young Mystic"

Too weak to climb a solid fence - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

The solid prizes of the universe - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

Expect the ground to be always solid - William Carlos Williams "K. McB."

Into the solid floor of sky - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


From solid state to a state of change - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu


Our failures have solidified - Robert Bly "The Spiny Beast"

Spindrift and ozone solidified - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Solidifies what once was vapor - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly


And feel solidity's foundation stir - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"


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