Read full poem →So take me in your arms a space
Before the east is grey."
Dictionary Entry
One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. eastasia eastindia eastside eastcoast eastafrica easteast middleeast far
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Poetry examples for “east”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
Read full poem →"Their love is for their own undoing.
And east and west
They scour about the world a-wooing
Read full poem →There flowers no balm to sain him
From east of earth to west
That's lost for everlasting
Read full poem →With all its train forlorn;
Hues in the east assemble
And cocks crow up the morn.
Read full poem →Blue the sky from east to west
Arches, and the world is wide,
Read full poem →The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
Read full poem →East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
Read full poem →West and away the wheels of darkness roll,
Day's beamy banner up the east is borne,
Spectres and fears, the nightmare and her foal,
Read full poem →No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows,
The dreaded east is all the wind that blows;
Here in a grotto, shelter'd close from air,