Read full poem →For the weary winds are silent, or the moon is in the deep:
Some respite to its turbulence unresting ocean knows;
Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, hath its appointed sleep. _20
Dictionary Entry
The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance.
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Poetry examples for “turbulence”
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Read full poem →For zeal unguarded, undissembled hate,
For daring truth, and turbulence of honour!
Read full poem →should criticise himself. All hopes of new literary institutions were
quickly suppressed by the contentious turbulence of king James's reign;
and Roscommon, foreseeing that some violent concussion of the state was
Read full poem →And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.