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Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
Thomas Hardy
fate | disaster
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodie ...
Adrienne Rich
disaster | language | poetry | poets
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Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond c ...
Shakespeare
disorder | rebellion | disaster
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In the gross and scope of mine opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Shakespeare
politics | forebodings | disaster
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When the rock was hid by the surges' swell,
The mariners heard the warning bell, ...
Robert Southey
disaster | boats | sailors and sailing
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One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,
A sound as if, with the Inchcape Bell,
The Devil below was ringing his knell.
Robert Southey
boats | disaster | bells
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There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
Henry David Thoreau
disaster
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Dizzily down the abyss he wheels--
So fell Darius. Upon his crown, ...
John Townsend Trowbridge
disaster | youth
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts ...
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
human nature | disaster | discontent
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Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
And hear a cry from a reeling deck!
John Greenleaf Whittier
disaster | shipwrecks
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