Read full poem →proper dignity to the sublimity of the one, or to descend with ease to the
jocose familiarity of the other. Besides the cramp of rhime every line is
cot asunder by so strong a casure, that in English we should divide it into
Dictionary Entry
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. crampcramp muscle
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Poetry examples for “cramp”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Go, cramp dull Mars, light Venus, when he snorts,
Or with thy tribade trine invent new sports;
Read full poem →To tell with joy what I admire,
My thoughts lie cramp’d in narrow scope,
Or in the feeble birth expire;
Read full poem →Tricked out in star and flower,
And in cramp elf and saurian forms
They swathed their too much power.