Potential Titles: Roll

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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"

When time rolls a few more years - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"

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)"

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"

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"

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]

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"

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"

Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"

And rolled on in thunderous darkness - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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"

Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

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"

Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

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"

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"

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"

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]

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"


Enrolled in the college of nightfall - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"


The meadows like rolled-out centuries - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"


Like another steamrolled peony - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"


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