Read full poem →To see the morning shine,
When he will hear the stroke of eight
And not the stroke of nine;
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years eighthours eighthundred eightmonths eight. eightdays eight
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Poetry examples for “eight”
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Read full poem →When I no favour seek.
Or follow girls seven hours in eight?--
I need but once a week.
Read full poem →ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY[63] A STANDISH
AND TWO PENS.
Read full poem →Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf
At eight years old ; and still from time to time
Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, 35
Read full poem →grass,
Sudden and steady the music, as eight hoofs trample and thunder,
Rings in the ear of the low blind wind of the night as we pass;
Read full poem →Eight hundred years and twenty-one
Have shone and sunken since the land
Read full poem →I had eight birds hatched in one nest,
Four cocks there were, and hens the rest.
Read full poem →The night-cool limestone white of Death Valley,
The straight drop of eight hundred feet
Read full poem →[490] "This yeare [1560] in the end of September the copper monies which
had been coyned under King Henry the Eight and once before abased by
King Edward the Sixth, were again brought to a lower
Read full poem →Thanks must I give
Because that seven times are not eight or nine,
And that my darkness is all mine,