Read full poem →She held it out ; and as a parrot turns
Up thro’ gilt wires a crafty loving eye, 170
And takes a lady’s finger with all care,
Dictionary Entry
Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
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Poetry examples for “crafty”
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Read full poem →The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise,
And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise.
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →The truth, but gropes, and urges all by chance;
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise,
And think to ruin where it seemed to raise.
Read full poem →Long shalt thou rest when Fates expire thy breath.
But me let crafty damsel's words deceive,
Great joys by hope I inly shall conceive.
Read full poem →That they a benefice 'twixt them obtained;
And crafty Reynold was a priest ordained,
And th' ape his parish clerk procur'd to be.
Read full poem →I never again shall tell you what I think.
I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading any more:
Read full poem →Since then a crafty score of years
Have come, and they have gone;
Read full poem →To set upon them his change
Crafty and subtle;
To alter them to his purpose;
Read full poem →Said Karker, the crafty, "I will not slay thee!
For all the king's gold I will never betray thee!"
Read full poem →compliments and reluctancies, was decently toppled from all his
grandeur, into the impartial flames; the crafty devil leaving his
infallibilityship in the lurch, and laughing as heartily at his