Read full poem →Not any hate, not any love.
Not anything but dreams.
Brother of dusk and umber.
Dictionary Entry
Not at all; quite the contrary (of).
In a Sentence
“It started out as a lively party, now it is anything but.”
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Poetry examples for “anything but”
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Read full poem →And worried by the most ingenious hate,
It never could be anything but well,
Nor from my soul, full of thy sanctity,
Read full poem →For me to taste it. But I cannot tell
If truly never anything but fair
The days were when he sang, as now they seem.
Read full poem →I must confess it could not choose but be
Prophane to think thee anything but thee.
Read full poem →I must confess it could not choose but be
Prophane to think thee anything but thee.
Read full poem →'Tis malice, 'tis revenge, 'tis pride,
'Tis anything but thee;
Oh, deign a nobler pride to prove,
Read full poem →I yet in all I only cared to know,
Was never deep in anything but—Wine.
Read full poem →(_b_) Anything but this { crash of water-drops
{ [*noise*]
Read full poem →'Would it were anything but merely voice!'
The No King cried who after that was King,
Read full poem →In the same vein we should have apple trees exempt
From bearing anything but pink blossoms all the year,
Fixed permanent lest their bellies wax unseemly, and the dear