Read full poem →Emerged from the fingers of malice, emerged with a laugh,
Kept Europe in laughter, in turmoil, in fear
For your eighty-four years!
Dictionary Entry
A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
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. turmoilturmoil politicalturmoil emotionalturmoil innerturmoil social
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Poetry examples for “turmoil”
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Read full poem →About the business, and the labor over it.
There was the war, and all the fear and turmoil
In London for the war. But most of all
Read full poem →A gracious spring, turned to blood-ravenous autumn,
A turmoil of wars-men, spread over the middle kingdom,
Three hundred and sixty thousand,
Read full poem →To-day from the Dragon-Pen.[1]
Surprised. Desert turmoil. Sea sun.
Flying snow bewilders the barbarian heaven.
Read full poem →a last token that we are not forgot,
lost in this turmoil,
about to be crushed out,
Read full poem →Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting;
Still working, blaming still our vain turmoil,
Laborers that shall not fail, when man is gone.
Read full poem →Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting;
Still working, blaming still our vain turmoil,
Labourers that shall not fail, when man is gone.
Read full poem →(Come all the way from the north-parts with sperm oil)
I hope to get safely out of the turmoil
And arrive one day at the land of the Gipsies,