Read full poem →If you loved me ever so little,
I could bear the bonds that gall,
I could dream the bonds were brittle;
Dictionary Entry
Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the
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Poetry examples for “bonds”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Woven out of faith and hope and love too great
To bear the bonds of life and death and fate:
Woven out of love and hope and faith too dear
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Read full poem →that loving, yet you deny me entrance everywhere. Would marriage
strike you blind, or, hating bonds as you do, why should I be denied
the rights of loving if I leave you free? You want the whole of me,
Read full poem →But like the bard, who freely sings
In strictest bonds of rhyme and rule,
And finds in them, not bonds, but wings.
Read full poem →Though Sisters' children often blend
Sweetly the bonds of child and friend,
They are but reeds to rest upon.
Read full poem →For, ah, who can express
How full of bonds and simpleness
Is God,
Read full poem →Meant--only for a little while:
Sever'd are now those bonds earth-wrought;
All love, not new, stands here for nought!'
Read full poem →Quickening in darkness, till a voice that day
Cried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.
Read full poem →To love me, I looked forward to the moon
To slacken all those bonds which seemed too soon
And quickly tied to make a lasting troth.
