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Divers rising through leagues of joy - Carl Adamshick "Loss"

Just a league from its destined goal - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

A thousand leagues into the western sky - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

Cotton leagues no more with Traitors - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Leagued with the Sphinx - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"

With the leagued legions of the sky - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

And death a league behind - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Breath of Life"

Such leagues apart the world's ends are - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXII"

Leagues upon leagues of sealed history - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

When leagued with me in crime and punishment - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Splash at a ten-league canvas - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

Falls league by league from our destiny - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

With the stride of seven league boots - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

In three thousand leagues of my spirit - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)

By its leagues of sunshine hair - Fiona MacLeod "Lullaby"

The leagued might of futile things - Don Marquis "The Singer"

These million leagues of fires - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

While she measures the leagues of dark - Alice Meynell "The Divine Privilege"

In tossing leagues of light - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons I. To--"

Against you are leagued the earth and the stars - Thomas O'Hagan "The Kaiser's 'Place in the Sun'"

Sent vast leagues of silver fire - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

The nucleus of that larger league - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"

A thousand leagues of silence roll - George Santayana "Midnight"

Hundred league lake of melted silver - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

Half a league onward - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end - "Tom o' Bedlam"


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