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Woe to the nightingale singing in the mill - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Frogs are croaking near the mill - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

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

The old forge and mill are shut and done - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"

Chatter beneath a phantom mill - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

The waters under the ruined mill - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"

Sharp hunger forced us to the mills - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Seven fine churches and five old mills - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

Each fond aspiration in secret milled - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]

From the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXIII"

At the round-turning mill - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

Their mills and their bloody hands - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

Marred in the mills of grief - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

Wrought by some magic hand in fairy mills - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"

On the leaning birth beside the mill - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"

Polished silver is the mill - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"

While the rich man's mill is strife - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"

Crash of engines and discordant mills - 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]

Bats and witches by the mill - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"

And every tear would turn a mill - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull

A swarm of milling spirits appears - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

The old foot-bridge and the murmuring mill - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

A mill that will go without water or wind - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"

The mill wheel turning the sleeve of the sky - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


Your miller does not rest in her sanctuary - "First Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this claims, internally, to be Enheduana speaking but references things not built until well after her probable dates)


A minnow down some wild mill-race - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VIII: To a Forgotten Triton"


Millstone.


In a powder-mill with a lighted match - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]


Saw my sisters in the sawmills - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

The sawmills of the night - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

With the whine of saw-mills and whirr of hidden wings - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"


Windmill.


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