Potential Titles: Roll
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somethingdarkerCrouching when the voice of thunder rolls - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
My dice rolled to seven - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
The escalator, rolling ever down - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Long before time really got rolling - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
A ball that rolls down a timeless hill - Mary Jo Bang "The Wallpaper behind the Day"
Seething waves of trouble roll - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
And onward rolls the storm - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Rolls headlong down the steep - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Roll your hands in the honey of life - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
A terrible symphony rolled through crashing bars - William Rose Benét "The City"
From out the roll of dreaming children - Paul Bewsher "A Fallen Leaf"
And the dark surge roll below - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
And the roll of fame shall be a blot - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
When time rolls a few more years - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
On we roll through trackless space - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Song of the Stars"
Up where the heavy thunders rolled - George W. Bungay "The Autograph of God" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Iron voices rolling on her ears - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Heard Mount Sinai's thunder roll - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"
For this have ages rolled - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Rolling neat into pine drawers - Ching-In Chen "American Syntax"
The rains have rolled back - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"
Through the tempest's blackness rolled - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Rolls and laps in a new Great Flood - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
The wave of war still rolls - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Called the roll of the roses - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"
Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
While time and silence roll - Katharine de Mattos "Portrait of a Lady (Unknown)"
Rolling battleships at anchor ride - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Dardenelles, from 'W' Beach"
Rolled back their army to the dark again - Geoffrey Dearmer "Keats"
Chain up the billows as they roll - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
Roll back the Spirit's portals - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
The leonine billows ramp and roll - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"
His body rolling in eternity - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The hole in the pocket after the money rolls out - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
Through heaven's rolled, impersonal blue - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
This place where the tide rolls out - Chiyuma Elliott "For Ghosted Girls"
A name noted on the rolls of Fame - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"
Where floods of rapture roll - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Impetuous round her axle rolls - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Faster and fiercer rolls the tide - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Wrap myself in thunder's rolling cloak - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
Rain rolls its tides before us - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Rolled her naked through the sun - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"
Like echoes of an angel's trumpet roll - Arthur M. Forrester "The Church of Ballymore"
The tides that roll from thought's interior - Sam Walter Foss "The Wail of the Hack Writer" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]
Rolled the slow thunders on the wind - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
To roll the clouds of midnight from your hearts - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Gold from empty bags in torrents rolled - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Darkling roll in trials and tears - Thomas Gent "Poems"
What melody rolls over mountains and water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
The tempest's artillery rolled - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Butterfly's Dream"
Rocking and rolling through the storms of Jupiter - John Grey "Son of an Astronaut"
Rolled on its choral axle - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
That keeps the rolling universe ensphered - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Rolling in along my spine - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"
Through voids that roll away - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
Rolling dissonances doomed to clash - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"
West and away the wheels of darkness roll - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"
Whose chariot roll'd on wheels of amber and of gold - "Hymn [I praised the earth, in beauty seen]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
When it came to rolling nickels by - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Time's dark billows, as they onward roll - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Rolling a fog of ash downhill to sea - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"
And the darkness rolled up on one side - James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And rolled on in thunderous darkness - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The great space wherein the firm spheres roll - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Rocks rolling across the fat plains - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"
Water rolls the stone away - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
The yet unfolded Roll of Fate - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Bitter tides of sorrow roll - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"
While bounding and tumbling and rolling here - Alfred Kreymborg "Stones"
Hunting for perfect stones rolled out of glacial time - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
The wind's whispers round me roll - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
Like mustard-seed rolls out of the husk of death - D.H. Lawrence "War-Baby"
Rolling all its bridges under - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Flying waterfalls and rolling torrents - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley
Windows open to let the fog roll - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"
Moon rolling down the gutter of the same sky - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
Their thunder rolling from the Vatican - Francis Mahony (Father Prout) "The Bells of Shandon"
Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"
Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Through each vein reanimation rolls - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Through the vale my sad orison rolls - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Rolling abroad in eight directions - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a dog rolling around in the dew - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew
Rolled at your feet of stone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
While the months and the years roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"
Where the Trades and the tides roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"
Though blazing suns and planets rolled between - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
Water rolling toward the moon - Margaret Noodin "Inertia" transl. by the author
Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
In maddening music roll - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
A solemn silence answered when we called him on the roll - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
Echoes the numb roll of the whale - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"
Rolls up the breathless blue - Theodore H. Rand "The Arethusa"
So rolls the cycle of eternity - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"
Tears rolled down a cheek of stone - Ariana Reines "The Economy"
A thousand leagues of silence roll - George Santayana "Midnight"
They roll forth trembling thunder - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Whom the stars praise as they roll - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Roll over the city of doom - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Rolls from the face of the dawn - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Through rolling smoke the Demon's eye - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
The Thunder, rolling up behind the Deep - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Rolls a sea of amber down the world - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Gilding the battle-storm, rolling in wrath - "The Star-Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Valhalla's gates that roll asunder - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"
When the wave rolls black with storm - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Rolled silent with somnolent fish - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"
That roll so heavily from off the heart - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
Its sad knell rolls to many hearths - Henry David Thoreau "The Funeral Bell"
Bright sun dispelled the gloom of rolling centuries - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Consumed by storms and rolling heat - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"
While the stream of life shall roll - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Rolling stones in every path - M.R.W. "The Way to Walk" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Thrown from the rolling moon - Charles William Wallace "To Fancy"
And roll upon our serried lines - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course - William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
Rivers sweep and roll between - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
When rolling years had soothed the wound - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Rolled up the map of Angers - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Would bankroll such a quiet grace - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
Enroll.
The meadows like rolled-out centuries - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"
Like another steamrolled peony - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Unroll.
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My dice rolled to seven - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
The escalator, rolling ever down - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Long before time really got rolling - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
A ball that rolls down a timeless hill - Mary Jo Bang "The Wallpaper behind the Day"
Seething waves of trouble roll - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
And onward rolls the storm - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Rolls headlong down the steep - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Roll your hands in the honey of life - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
A terrible symphony rolled through crashing bars - William Rose Benét "The City"
From out the roll of dreaming children - Paul Bewsher "A Fallen Leaf"
And the dark surge roll below - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
And the roll of fame shall be a blot - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
When time rolls a few more years - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
On we roll through trackless space - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Song of the Stars"
Up where the heavy thunders rolled - George W. Bungay "The Autograph of God" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Iron voices rolling on her ears - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Heard Mount Sinai's thunder roll - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"
For this have ages rolled - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Rolling neat into pine drawers - Ching-In Chen "American Syntax"
The rains have rolled back - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"
Through the tempest's blackness rolled - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Rolls and laps in a new Great Flood - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
The wave of war still rolls - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Called the roll of the roses - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"
Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
While time and silence roll - Katharine de Mattos "Portrait of a Lady (Unknown)"
Rolling battleships at anchor ride - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Dardenelles, from 'W' Beach"
Rolled back their army to the dark again - Geoffrey Dearmer "Keats"
Chain up the billows as they roll - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
Roll back the Spirit's portals - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
The leonine billows ramp and roll - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"
His body rolling in eternity - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The hole in the pocket after the money rolls out - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
Through heaven's rolled, impersonal blue - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
This place where the tide rolls out - Chiyuma Elliott "For Ghosted Girls"
A name noted on the rolls of Fame - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"
Where floods of rapture roll - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Impetuous round her axle rolls - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Faster and fiercer rolls the tide - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Wrap myself in thunder's rolling cloak - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
Rain rolls its tides before us - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Rolled her naked through the sun - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"
Like echoes of an angel's trumpet roll - Arthur M. Forrester "The Church of Ballymore"
The tides that roll from thought's interior - Sam Walter Foss "The Wail of the Hack Writer" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]
Rolled the slow thunders on the wind - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
To roll the clouds of midnight from your hearts - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Gold from empty bags in torrents rolled - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Darkling roll in trials and tears - Thomas Gent "Poems"
What melody rolls over mountains and water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
The tempest's artillery rolled - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Butterfly's Dream"
Rocking and rolling through the storms of Jupiter - John Grey "Son of an Astronaut"
Rolled on its choral axle - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
That keeps the rolling universe ensphered - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Rolling in along my spine - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"
Through voids that roll away - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
Rolling dissonances doomed to clash - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"
West and away the wheels of darkness roll - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"
Whose chariot roll'd on wheels of amber and of gold - "Hymn [I praised the earth, in beauty seen]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
When it came to rolling nickels by - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Time's dark billows, as they onward roll - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Rolling a fog of ash downhill to sea - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"
And the darkness rolled up on one side - James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And rolled on in thunderous darkness - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The great space wherein the firm spheres roll - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Rocks rolling across the fat plains - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"
Water rolls the stone away - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
The yet unfolded Roll of Fate - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Bitter tides of sorrow roll - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"
While bounding and tumbling and rolling here - Alfred Kreymborg "Stones"
Hunting for perfect stones rolled out of glacial time - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
The wind's whispers round me roll - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
Like mustard-seed rolls out of the husk of death - D.H. Lawrence "War-Baby"
Rolling all its bridges under - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Flying waterfalls and rolling torrents - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley
Windows open to let the fog roll - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"
Moon rolling down the gutter of the same sky - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
Their thunder rolling from the Vatican - Francis Mahony (Father Prout) "The Bells of Shandon"
Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"
Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Through each vein reanimation rolls - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Through the vale my sad orison rolls - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Rolling abroad in eight directions - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a dog rolling around in the dew - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew
Rolled at your feet of stone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
While the months and the years roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"
Where the Trades and the tides roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"
Though blazing suns and planets rolled between - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
Water rolling toward the moon - Margaret Noodin "Inertia" transl. by the author
Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
In maddening music roll - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
A solemn silence answered when we called him on the roll - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
Echoes the numb roll of the whale - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"
Rolls up the breathless blue - Theodore H. Rand "The Arethusa"
So rolls the cycle of eternity - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"
Tears rolled down a cheek of stone - Ariana Reines "The Economy"
A thousand leagues of silence roll - George Santayana "Midnight"
They roll forth trembling thunder - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Whom the stars praise as they roll - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Roll over the city of doom - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Rolls from the face of the dawn - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Through rolling smoke the Demon's eye - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
The Thunder, rolling up behind the Deep - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Rolls a sea of amber down the world - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Gilding the battle-storm, rolling in wrath - "The Star-Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Valhalla's gates that roll asunder - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"
When the wave rolls black with storm - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Rolled silent with somnolent fish - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"
That roll so heavily from off the heart - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
Its sad knell rolls to many hearths - Henry David Thoreau "The Funeral Bell"
Bright sun dispelled the gloom of rolling centuries - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Consumed by storms and rolling heat - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"
While the stream of life shall roll - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Rolling stones in every path - M.R.W. "The Way to Walk" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Thrown from the rolling moon - Charles William Wallace "To Fancy"
And roll upon our serried lines - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course - William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
Rivers sweep and roll between - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
When rolling years had soothed the wound - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Rolled up the map of Angers - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Would bankroll such a quiet grace - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
Enroll.
The meadows like rolled-out centuries - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"
Like another steamrolled peony - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Unroll.
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
