Read full poem →(_The snowman looses her hand, and she falls. The mist clears
from a dark stage, the walls close in again, the chamber
remains in darkness. A figure stumbles past the window, the
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Poetry examples for “close in”
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Read full poem →One thought lies close in her heart gnawn thorough
With pain, a weed in a dried-up river,
Read full poem →Hardly scattering the stillness,
Only making it close in more densely.
The gardener picks ripe gooseberries
Read full poem →Where round about small birds most sweetly sing.
Here while I walk, hid close in shady grove,
To find what work my muse might move, I strove,
Read full poem →And trick of shrinking off as he were shy,
Then following close in silence for--for what?
"No rabbit, never fear, she ever got,
Read full poem →More dear than April has made it with a smile.
The fields beyond that league close in together
And merge, even as our days into the past,
Read full poem →Beneath the oak which breaks away the wind,
And bushes close in snow-like hovel warm;
There tainted mutton wastes upon the coals,
Read full poem →By the rich scent we found our perfumed prey,
Which, flank’d with rocks, did close in covert
lie ;
Read full poem →Peace let the dew send!
Lofty designs must close in like effects:
Loftily lying,
Read full poem →And said out loud, I couldn't bide the smother
And heat so close in; but the thought of all
The woods and town on fire by me, and all