Read full poem →with him is not rooted in satiety, but in the freshness of pure pleasure;
he would never cast off the old to put on the new. The chain once broken,
against which between sleeping and waking he chafes and wrestles, he would
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Poetry examples for “cast off”
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Read full poem →Fain would cast off hope and fear,
Rest, forget, be reconciled:
Read full poem →*' How fares your majesty ?
K, John, Poison'd, ill fare! dead, forsook, cast off;
And none of you will bid the winter come.
Read full poem →If they were not his own by finessing and trick:
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Read full poem →If they were not his own by finessing and trick,
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.
Read full poem →Into the ship-hold glittering trappings,
Splendid battle-arms; and the men cast off,
Eager voyagers, in their tight-timbered boat.
Read full poem →And there alone still stood we two;
She one cast off for me,
Or so it seemed: while night ondrew,