Read full poem →Let soft compassion touch your gentle mind:
Think, 'tis Vertumnus begs you to be kind:
So may no frost, when early buds appear,
Dictionary Entry
The act of begging; an imploring request.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “begs”
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Read full poem →Sufficient sap at once to bear and rot.
Now he begs verse, and what he gets commends,
Not of the wits, his foes, but fools, his friends.
Read full poem →Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
_Physic_ of _Metaphysic_ begs defence,
And _Metaphysic_ calls for aid on _Sense_! 20
Read full poem →And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire.
Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes
Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize:
Read full poem →Mounier a little love
begs, Mimi with the body
like une boite a joujoux, want nice sleep?
Read full poem →So abject, mean, and vile,
Who begs a brother of the earth
To give him leave to toil;
Read full poem →gratifying him, if he deserves it, in that dearest wish of every
poetic bosom--to be distinguished. He begs his readers, particularly
the learned and the polite, who may honour him with a perusal, that
Read full poem →Safe from the tart lampoon, and stinging jest;
There begs of Heaven a less distinguish'd lot--
Glad to be hid, and proud to be forgot.