Read full poem →Our hearts may bear its slender chain a day;
As flowery bands in wantonness are worn,
A morning's pleasure, and at evening torn;
Dictionary Entry
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
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Poetry examples for “bands”
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Read full poem →The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead,
And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead;
The steer and lion at one crib shall meet,
Read full poem →And swells her breast with conquests yet to come.
Straight the three bands prepare in arras to join,
Each band the number of the sacred Nine.
Read full poem →When battle's bolt is hurled,
They close, clenched hard like tightening bands.
Read full poem →Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
Read full poem →Your staff for a rod;
With the breaking of bands ye are broken,
Saith the Lord God.
Read full poem →The long strife at length is striven:
Till her grave-bands shall be riven
Such is the good portion given
Read full poem →Forbear to hurt thyself in spoiling me. 50
Behold thy kinsman[138] CÊsar's prosperous bands,
Who guards the[139] conquered with his conquering hands.
Read full poem →And house me from the cold,
And bind with bright bands my glossy locks,
And buy me chains of gold;
Read full poem →When, in the course of human events, it becomes nec-
essary for one people to dissolve tiie political bands which
have connected them with another, and to assume, among