Read full poem →Mad stream, why dost our mutual joys defer?
Clown, from my journey why dost me deter?
How would'st thou flow wert thou a noble flood?
Dictionary Entry
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. clownclown circusclown class
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Poetry examples for “clown”
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Read full poem →Worthy to kemb none but a goddess fair,
Our pleasant scapes show thee no clown to be,
Apt to thy mistress, but more apt to me.
Read full poem →I burn,[252] and by that blushful glance am took;
And she that's coy I like, for being no clown,
Methinks she would be nimble when she's down.
Read full poem →Though all the world in troops do thither run,
Clean and unclean, the gentle and the clown:
Then why should Rufus in his pride abhor
Read full poem →Nor is she, though she loves the fertile fields,
A clown, nor no love from her warm breast yields:
Be witness Crete (nor Crete doth all things feign)
Read full poem →His selfish hope, he finds the grace,
Which sweet love has for ev’n the clown,
Was not in the woman, but the chace.
Read full poem →And aye hath, cloister'd, borne,
To the Clown's scorn,
The fetters of the threefold golden chain:
Read full poem →I get out of a clown like this
More than your wisdom can provide.*
Read full poem →_Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the
fighter?
Read full poem →PIERS. Abandon then the base and viler clown;
Lift up thyself out of the lowly dust,