Read full poem →deliciously with the "light high laugh" in its tone: while for sweet and
rapid daring, for angelically puerile impudence as it were, it may be
matched against any song of its fantastic sort.
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Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.
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Poetry examples for “as it were”
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Read full poem →Looking around on the waste of the rushing incurious billows,
'This is Nature,' I said: 'we are born as it were from her waters;
Over her billows that buffet and beat us, her offspring uncared-for,
Read full poem →Flickers, an unfed flame retiring slow from the socket),
Low on a sick-bed laid, hear one, as it were, at the doorway,
And, looking up, see thee standing by, looking emptily at me;
Read full poem →the same play,, vol. i. p. Sg, very remarkable) I suppose this to have happened here; for by
reading Put me on the wild island; — I stand upon, &c. how nobly does she start as it were
from jancy to reality, from the picture into the l{fe f Me* on th* by elisions common to all
Read full poem →But now, as it were all at once, (as it happened in
France, though in a much later period,) the true drama
Read full poem →sarcerers, yet when they get back to Greece (which was as it were then
Read full poem →When I, my light, do or say aught that please thee,
Turn round thy gold ring, as it were to ease thee.
Strike on the board like them that pray for evil,
Read full poem →Then all the blessed maidens who were there
Stood up together, as it were a voice
That called them ; and they threw their tresses back.
Read full poem →But now, whatever while the soul is fain
To list that wonted murmur, as it were
The speech-bound sea-shell's low importunate strain,--
Read full poem →to me that Love became a part of myself: so
that, changed as it were in mine aspect, I
rode on full of thought the whole of that