Read full poem →And the everlasting fire.
And against a smoulder dun
And a dawn without a sun
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Poetry examples for “dun”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ere, clouded yet in mistiest dawn,
Above the horizon dusk and dun,
One mountain crest with light had tipped
Read full poem →Noble Gentleman, a comedy, which was latelv revived by Mr. Durfey,
under the title of The Fool's Preferment, or The Three Dukes of Dun-
stable.
Read full poem →And Laura loved it for the little hill,
Where the quartz sparkled fire, barren and dun,
Whence in the shadow of the dying sun,
Read full poem →Or Poets, when they mark
In the clouds dun
A loitering flush of the long sunken sun,
Read full poem →Then athwart the vapors dun
The Easter sun
Read full poem →What a strange scene before us now does run--
Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black, and dun;
White thorn, wild cherry, and the poplar bare;
Read full poem →Rivers arise; whether thou be the Son,
Of utmost Tweed, or Oose, or gulphie Dun,
Or Trent, who like some earth-born Giant spreads
Read full poem →That pierced it, of the outside sun,
Powdered with gold its gloom's soft dun--
