America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  Howl and Other Poems,'America'.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  Last Poems, no.9.

   Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, byJohnTanner', foreword.

They lounge at corners of the street And greet friends with a shrug of shoulder And turn their pockets out, The cynical gestures of the poor.

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'MovingThrough the Silent Crowd'.

Poetry is a rich, full-blooded whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbers the leaf, the duet of two nightingales, the sweet pea, that has run wild,Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

-Stevens,Wallace
Quoted in Life,13 Jun1960.

New glass skyscrapers stand shoulder to shoulder, reflecting one another narcissistically.

-Talese, Gay
  In the NewYorkTimes, 23 Jun.

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid metake love easy, asthe leavesgrow on thetree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid metake life easy, as thegrassgrows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Down by the Salley Gardens', complete poem. Collected in Crossways.