Dictionary Entry

an

Part of SpeechnumeralPronunciation/æn/Used In Literature ↓

One

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Poetry examples for “an”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.

Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad, drooping with your lot?

They ask and there is not an answer;
Says I, I will 'list for a lancer,

They have enough as 'tis: I see
In many an eye that measures me
The mortal sickness of a mind

Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?
Oh that was right, lad, that was brave:

*Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town
Into my heart an air that kills .
In my own shire, if I was sad

Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.

At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The thoughts that hurt him, they were there.

So here's an end of roaming
On eves when autumn nighs:

That morning half a shire away
So many an honest fellow's fist
Had well-nigh wrung it from the wrist.