Dictionary Entry
The state or period of being a boy.
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Poetry examples for “boyhood”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →dotard in your rage ?
Eyes that lured a doting boyhood well might fool
Read full poem →Last to him then the first of all, —
The child his boyhood bore in heed
Read full poem →Continuing—as dreams have been to me
In my young boyhood—should it thus be given,
’Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven!
Read full poem →Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcast
And boyhood's pleasing haunt like a blossom in the blast
Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and done,
Read full poem →I loved the wood, the vale, the stream,
For there my boyhood used to dream.
Read full poem →Her face was fair, but was not that which made
The Starlight[49] of his Boyhood;--as he stood
Even at the altar, o'er his brow there came
Read full poem →Than thou, O uncontrollable! If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be
Read full poem →true;
And the friends of thy boyhood--that boyhood of wonder and 90
hope,