Read full poem →My heart and soul and senses,
World without end, are drowned.
Dictionary Entry
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
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. drownedhimself drownedwhile drowned
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Poetry examples for “drowned”
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Read full poem →Till all the ways and the waves waxed red:
Bound and drowned, slaying two by two,
Maidens and young men, naked and wed.
Read full poem →You stript him, scourged him with rods,
And drowned him deep in the sea
That hides the dead and their gods.
Read full poem →Losing every thought but this;
Torn, triumphant, drowned in bliss.
Read full poem →and undulant in the orange glow. His senses flow towards her,
where she lies supine and dreaming. Seeming drowned in a golden halo.
Read full poem →He remained at Cambridge until 1640, when his
father, in croBsing the Humber, was drowned in
company with a Miss Skinner. Fuller says that
Read full poem →gation line. White boys threw rocks at him and knocked
him off a raft. He was drowned. Colored people rushed
to a policeman and asked for the arrest of the boys throw-
Read full poem →What gift with me was on her birthday sent,
But cruelly by her was drowned and rent.
First of thy mind the happy seeds I knew;[347]
Read full poem →Pierian dew to poets is distilled:
Him the last day in black Avern hath drowned:
Verses alone are with continuance crowned.