Read full poem →And, with convincing music clear and loud,
Startle the adder-deafness of the crowd
By tones, O Love, from thee.
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Poetry examples for “adder”
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Read full poem →And who should be my playmates but the adder and the frog,
That was got beneath a furze-bush and born in a bog?
Read full poem →The fishes float with new repairèd scale;
The adder all her slough away she slings;
The swift swallow pursueth the fliès small;
Read full poem →When his frantic struggles ended,
Through King Olaf's horn an adder,
Touched by fire, they forced to glide.
Read full poem →"Yea, strange indeed--that heart hath long been changed;
Worm-like 'twas trampled--adder-like avenged--
Without one hope on earth beyond thy love, 400
Read full poem →But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Read full poem →But though lean Hunger and green Thirst
Like asp with adder fight,
We have little care of prison fare,
Read full poem →Scented fern, and agrimony,
Clover, catchfly, adder's-tongue
And brier-roses, dwelt among;
Read full poem →In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.