Read full poem →What the,--! My wife! It be my wife!
Wife! Don’t ’e hear me? It be I, come back,
Jaspar come back--Jaspar come home again----
Dictionary Entry
A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
Origin
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Common Phrases
juan donquixote donpedro doncarlos don. dongiovanni don
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Poetry examples for “don”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Waiting for yer,--waiting--expecting yer.
Ah, never mind. Though yer don’t love me, still
It’s back to me you come! Yer can’t ’elp that
Read full poem →Here, take your milk, and there’s a bit o’ bread
For both on yer. Don’t want it? Ah, it’s bed
You’d best be off to! There, put your mug down!
Read full poem →I killed him! My God! Don't you hear?
I shook him until his red tongue
Read full poem →pecking dove? I'm in love with my own temple. Only that halo's wrong.
The colour's too strong, or not strong enough. I don't know. My eyes
are tired. Oh, Peter, don't be so rough; it is valuable. I won't do
Read full poem →Tell the taverns that scar
Was an honour. Don't whine
That a stranger has marked you.
Read full poem →for duty, not for love. I cannot face it. Holy Mother, take my baby away!
Take away my little baby! I don't want it, I can't bear it!
Read full poem →Why doesn't Mr. Claude come with us? you ask.--We don't know,
You should know better than we. He talked of the Vatican marbles;