Read full poem →A fool to pleasure, yet a slave to fame:
Now coy, and studious in no point to fall,
Now all agog for D----y at a ball:
Dictionary Entry
To caress, pet; to coax, entice.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. coymistress coysmile coy
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Poetry examples for “coy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK To His Coy Mistress***
Read full poem →of Little T. C.,** or " The Fair Singer,'* or " To
his Coy Mistress," where light fancy turns at the
close to a deeper passion. The graceful lines
Read full poem →***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK To His Coy Mistress***
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 →Be ye forgot.
Terror, thou swarthy Groom of Bride-bliss coy,
Let me not see thee toy.
Read full poem →Be ye forgot.
Terror, thou swarthy Groom of Bride-bliss coy,
Let me not see thee toy.
Read full poem →Possess,
In gay, celestial beauty nothing coy,
And felt thy soft caress
Read full poem →And for the awe round fields and closen rove,
And coy bumbarrels twenty in a drove
Flit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain
Read full poem →Smoothing the deed where law sharks set their gin
Like a coy dog to draw misfortune in.
But both will chuckle oer their prisoners' sighs