Read full poem →Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Dictionary Entry
To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. cumberdance cumberhimself cumbermyself cumbercumber darylcumber castle
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Poetry examples for “cumber”
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Read full poem →Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Read full poem →Winds have risen to wreck, snows fallen to cumber,
Ships and chariots, trapped like rats or mice,
Read full poem →whose formality of phiz, and shallowness of scull, might for
a few visits make even melancholy smile; then that cumber-
some repository of ill thoughts, Sir Epicure, who batters my
Read full poem →Like Venus above the Pleiades.
Her small hands I would not cumber
With so many acres and their lumber,
Read full poem →Past all our fond self-shadowings,
Wherewith we cumber the Unknown
As with inept, Icarian wings.
Read full poem →Now at the parish cottage wall’d with dirt,
Where all the cumber-grounds of life resort,
From the low door that bows two props between,
Read full poem →Me let no half-effaced memories cumber;
Fled, fled at once, be all vestige of thee!
Read full poem →These questions busy wits to me do frame.
I, cumber'd with good manners, answer do,
But know not how, for still I think of you.