Read full poem →And freedom for our sort means freedom to be dumb.
Lo, how the dross and draff
Jeer up at us, and shout,
Dictionary Entry
Waste or impure matter.
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Poetry examples for “dross”
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Read full poem →Work for your soul’s sake,
That all the clay of you, all of the dross of you,
May yield to the fire of you,
Read full poem →That burns away the Animal Alloy,
Till all the Dross of Matter be consumed,
And the Essential Soul, its Raiment clean
Read full poem →Calculus_ racked him:
Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead:
Tussis_ attacked him.
Read full poem →Unmov'd, I saw the glitt'ring trifles perish,
And thought the petty dross beneath a sigh.
Cheerful I follow to the rural cell;
Read full poem →“Well; your very simplicity made me love you
Mid such town dross,
Till I set not Heaven itself above you,