Dictionary Entry

come down

To descend, fall down, collapse.

In a Sentence

“A tree came down and hit me on the head.”

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Poetry examples for “come down”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

In that hour thou shalt say to the night,
Come down and cover us;
To the cloud on thy left and thy right,

Ever, save thus, to be forgiven.
No Gospel has come down that cures
With better gain a loss like yours.

but shadows
--what does it all come down to? love? Love
if you like and i like, for the reason that i

No rays from the holy heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;

Of Earth, who seek the skies,
And so come down again
(Never-contented things!)

No rays from the holy Heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;

Such dreariness a heaven at all.
Yet tho' no holy rays come down
On the long night-time of that town,

They wave:—from out their fragrant tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
They weep:—from off their delicate stems

Wins the bird, beguiling,
To come down and see:
Like that bird the lover

But we are coming down again,
And we shall come down pleasantly;
Nor shall we longer disagree