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Staggering in beneath its load of crimes - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Wore her whiskey like a loaded gun - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

And creaked beneath their heavy load - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Echoes load the sighing gales - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Loading a boat to look for whales - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"

To load the May wind's restless wings - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

Stands loaded with wood and stone - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Bearing alone the load of liberty - Tommaso Campanella "XXIX. To Venice" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Under a load of time - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Bear a load of snow upon their backs - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

The day in winter's loaded garment - John Clare "Winter Walk"

Loaded with broken clocks - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"

That dim Dock where Charon loads his Ship - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"

A deal with the loaded dice - George Blackstone Field "The Price of the Line"

Huge with a cold load of growls - George Garrett "Or Death and December"

Grapes from many a loaded vine - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"

Beneath his grievous load oppressed - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Load my rocky smile into a slingshot - Andrea Gibson "What Do You Think About this Weather"

Quit the turf or loaded bone - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Grabs a load of sunrise - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

Waiting for a riverboat loaded with music - T.R. Hummer "Who Remembers Davenport"

Lest I sink down beneath my load - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Our wheelbarrow groaning under a new load - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

A load sharper to bear - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"

Loads the wind with his groans - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"

The dice of God were loaded - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"

Lifted in three hours the load of dread and deadweight - Harry Martinson "Aniara 91" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The load of solitary pain - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Dragged a load of stars along our wake - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Roofed in with a load of lead - Christina Rossetti "The Poor Ghost"

Loaded monarchs with his vassal chain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

The loaded wains with their burdens of the dead - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"

The ramparts' loosen'd load of thunder - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Condemn'd a load of infamy to bear - "The Whore"

To collect a load of stars - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)

The wind descend with its load of flames - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


An armload of August wildflowers - Miguel Murphy "August"

What the FBI already downloaded - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

Truckloads of gravel between us - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Unloads clean, bone-colored napkins - Christian Gullette "The Fish"

The grasses unload their griefs on my feet - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"


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