Read full poem →Ay, if dynamite and revolver leave you courage to
be wise :
Dictionary Entry
A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting; invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
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. dynamitedynamite political
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Poetry examples for “dynamite”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →wood, yet seemed made of iron, so black it was, so long had it stood
in the wasting weather, so steadily had it resisted the dynamite now
shaking the earth.
Read full poem →The mother had Frank and Jimmy sit in semicircle with her and big
Frank, while I plunged into my rhymed appeal. After the dynamite of the
day I did not hesitate to let loose the thunders. I did not hesitate to