Read full poem →Says Addison to Steele, ''Tis time to go:'
Pope to the closet steps aside with Rowe.
Poor Umbra, left in this abandon'd pickle,
Dictionary Entry
Any private area, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
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. closetdoor closetcloset watercloset linencloset hall
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Poetry examples for “closet”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →piety, which to our mind, if uttered at all, had been less
objectionable in the retired closet of a diary, and in the sober
raiment of prose. They do not clutch hold of the memory with the
Read full poem →As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet --
Because they liked me "still" --
Read full poem →Laying their hands upon their hearts, and saying,
"O, I am dead!" a lover in a closet,
An old hidalgo, and a gay Don Juan,
Read full poem →And now with gifts, the powerful bribes of love:
He furnishes her closet first; and fills
The crowded shelves with rarities of shells;
Read full poem →Even to Madeline's chamber, and there hide
Him in a closet, of such privacy
That he might see her beauty unespied,
Read full poem →In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender'd,
While he from forth the closet brought a heap
Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd
Read full poem →When come to the place where we all were to dine,
(A chair-lumber'd closet, just twelve feet by nine,)
My friend bade me welcome, but struck me quite dumb