Read full poem →Ages since the vanquished bled
Round my mother's marriage-bed;
Dictionary Entry
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
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. agesages middleages differentages darkages many
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Poetry examples for “ages”
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Read full poem →The medal, faithful to its charge of fame,
Through climes and ages bears each form and name:
In one short view subjected to our eye
Read full poem →Whose art was Nature, and whose pictures Thought;
Now for two ages having snatch'd from Fate
Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great,
Read full poem →The medal, faithful to its charge of fame,
Through climes and ages bears each form and name:
In one short view subjected to our eye
Read full poem →A common blessing: now 'tis yours, now mine.
But poets in all ages had the care
To keep this cap for such as will, to wear.
Read full poem →Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie,
Or wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye:
Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain,
Read full poem →Thine, raised by thee, recalls the work to light.
So wealthy mines, that ages long before
Fed the large realms around with golden ore,
Read full poem →Bring the old dark ages back without the faith,
without the hope,
Read full poem →Ages after, while in Asia, he that led the wild
Moguls,
Read full poem →33, Proxy-wedded with a bootless calf. In the ceremony of proxy-
marriage, which was common during the Middle Ages, the representa-
. tive of the bridegroom removed his boot and placed his leg, bare to