Read full poem →And the loose stragglers to their ranks confines:
Now gathering what the bounteous year allows,
He pulls ripe apples from the bending boughs: 40
Dictionary Entry
To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
In a Sentence
“to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest”
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Poetry examples for “allows”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →* Victoria, since your royal grace
To one of less desert allows
Read full poem →Mary does not believe, but we heard it from an Italian.
Mary allows she was wrong about Mr. Claude BEING SELFISH;
He was MOST useful and kind on the terrible thirtieth of April.
Read full poem →authors, degrade Beaumont so very low as these. Sir John Bcrkenhead
allows him a full moieti/ of the fame, but seems to think his genius more
turned to git^ve sublimity than to sprightliness of imgination.
Read full poem →author's Jirst-rate beauties are so near upon a par that they are scarce dis-
tinguishable. A preface allows not room for sufficient proofs of this, but
we will produce at least some parallels of poetic diction and sentiments^
Read full poem →That where St. Paul, in Man and Wife,
Allows a little worldly life,--
He smiled, and said that he knew all
Read full poem →You were wrong, it being not the character
Of the Earl-whom all the world allows to be
A most hilarious man. Be not, my son,
Read full poem →Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will, --
Read full poem →Allows thee choice of paths : take no by-ways ;
Read full poem →To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
