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Spreads its zero syllabic roar over vision - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"

The grating roar of pebbles - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

Roaring the fame of the flying dart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"

Sinks in roaring voids of night - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"

The roar of thunder joining battle - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Came a roar ten-thousand-fold - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Defied the mightiest tempest's roar - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

To hear the angry surges roar - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

Moans defiance and answers roar for roar - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"

And the great tides roared, assembling - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

Dormant in its roaring cave - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

The roar of waters and the lightning's gleaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

Of rage and roaring will - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

The wheel of the roaring stillness - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

The seven heavens came roaring down - G.K. Chesterton "Wine and Water"

The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

On the distant breeze's quaking the lion's roar - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

Where the roaring torrent gushes - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Roared from Russian ramparts grim - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"

Grain bends before your roar - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

When Quijote roared his challenge to giants - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"

Whether they roar in storm, or whisper peace - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

Yellow fall roars over the ground - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Will have roared first and mixed sparks with stars - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

When gloomy Jordan roared and swelled - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "Why should we Weep?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

A morning phoenix with proud roar - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"

The rising wind's menacing roar - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

The water beasts roaring in the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"

Mingling with the torrent's roar - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"

The roaring horizon of the bomb and the bullets - Nicolás Heredia y Mota "The American Flag" transl. by Edgar Peguero y Heredia

They lie down and roar and burn - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Measured roar and iron ring - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

With iron roar of waters - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

With leaping fire and boiling roar of rain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Shaped as a roaring lion - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

The roaring of bears and the singing of dragons - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

The whales roar in perfect tune and time - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Beneath Time's roaring cannon - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"

Taking leave in roars of jade - Audre Lorde "Parting"

From pride's tall roaring pyre in hell - Theodore Maynard "Pride"

Avalanches would roar from the roofs - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"

Too loud the wind's mad roar - Claude McKay "Jasmines"

Roaring storms of vice and ire - H.P. McKnight "Acrostic to Warden and Mrs. E.G. Coffin"

Stunned by the surf's loud roar - Herman Melville "The College Colonel"

Put a roaring halt to our empty rabid existence - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

Grey rain in roaring streams - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Who can sing amid this roar of streets - 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]

Vivid images and vicious roars - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

As thunders among dark crags roar - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Where the siren trumpets roar - Herbert Randall "Off"

Terror of the spotlight and audience roar - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

Wolves shiver as the rabbit roars - Hilda Reid "The Magnanimity of Beasts"

Into the roar of the world - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Hear the stars as a great roar - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

And roar the rapids to the moon - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

Erased from the roaring volume of speech - Rumi "Sanai" transl. by Coleman Barks

Fled with a roar through the rock - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Silence has its own roar - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

That mingled with the roar of dashing waves - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Omens that raise their cloudy heads and roar - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

The grand roar of thy anthem - Alfred B. Street "The Cataract"

Sweeps the forest fragments on its roaring path - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Touched the roar with silence - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

This roar of parleying starlings - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"

Two witches' cauldrons roar - Edward Thomas "This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"

This kaleidoscope of roaring color - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"

Roaring in a wind of memories - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Rhythm of roar and stillness - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

And the brook receives it home with a roar - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

Echoes wake from the roaring torrents - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson

While the roar of the far thunder deepens - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

Old Ocean with its ceaseless roar - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "Montauk"

Content to let the north-wind roar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

With a roar show the white - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

The North Wind roared defiance to the gods - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"

In the roar of broken boulders split - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The roar of lonely torrents swelled - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


Make uproar loud as drums - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Dream"

Hear the uproar of their joy - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The swift uproar of avalanche - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"


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