Read full poem →Of a few poor household spies?
Or his easier ears beguile,
So removed by our wile?
Dictionary Entry
To deceive or delude (using guile).
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Common Phrases
. beguile
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Poetry examples for “beguile”
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Read full poem →297 Let not conceit your settled sense beguile,
298 nor daunted be through envy or disdain.
Read full poem →Led with delight, they thus beguile the way,
Untill the blustring storme is overblowne;
Read full poem →296 thou feast the humour of the Courtly traine:
297 Let not conceipt thy setled sence beguile,
298 ne daunted be through enuy or disdaine.
Read full poem →The chaste wife, wise, without debate;
Such sleeps as may beguile the night;
Contented with thine own estate;
Read full poem →For though he seem to move, and stir a while,
It doth the sense beguile.
Such life is like the light which bideth yet
Read full poem →Retreating thence as lions, which some wile,
Or stratagem, did of their prey beguile,
We cleave the briny element, to meet
Read full poem →That in that fairest lake had placed been,
I could e'en Dido of her grief beguile;
Or rob from aged Lear his bitter teen:
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E’en so the words of love beguile,
When pleasure’s tree no longer bears,
Read full poem →Banished from the court on account of a quarrel, he withdrew to his
mother's estate in Volhynia, and there, to beguile the time, made love
to the wife of a neighbouring magnate, the _pane_ or Lord Falbowski. The