Read full poem →Dream-songs of carefree men and ancient places?
Soon we shall be beset by clamouring
Of hungry and importunate palefaces.
Dictionary Entry
To surround or hem in.
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Poetry examples for “beset”
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Read full poem →places?
Soon we shall be beset by clamouring
Of hungry and importunate palefaces.
Read full poem →journeying in quest of her. He appears in all of the legends at opportune
moments to succor the knights when they are hard beset or in the power of
their enemies. The six extant books contain respectively the legends of (I)
Read full poem →But it is winter with your love,
The sashes are beset with snow.
Read full poem →process being unnatural to the majority of mankind, the way of the
ironical is beset with snares and with furze-bushes.
Read full poem →If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget,
Read full poem →And from the rafters upon strings depend
Beanstalks beset with pods from end to end,
Whose numbers without counting may be seen
Read full poem →Leigh Hunt and his friends on Keats was that he became
obnoxious to those evils which inevitably beset every
literary coterie, that he learned rather to encourage than
Read full poem →She hurried at his words, beset with fears,
For there were sleeping dragons all around,
Read full poem →The bibliography of the _Giaour_ is beset with difficulties, and it is
doubtful if more than approximate accuracy can be secured. The
