Read full poem →Goodly and smart, with ears of Issachar.
Let no one fool engross it, or confine
A common blessing: now 'tis yours, now mine.
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To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
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Poetry examples for “engross”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →abilities calculated to make the stage flourish under bis
administration, soon contrived to engross the whole
Read full poem →In heaven the symbol of my mood,
Where one bright star engross’d the blue.
Read full poem →2 Engross not all the beams on high,
Which gild a lover's lays,
Read full poem →With monuments of death, proclaim his courage;
Virtue and liberty engross his soul,
And leave no place for perfidy, or fear.
Read full poem →Engross not all the beams on high,
Which gild a lover's lays;
Read full poem →2 Engross not all the beams on high,
Which gild a lover's lays,
Read full poem →Good will to men, and zeal for God,
His every thought engross;
He longs to be baptized with blood,
Read full poem →Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engross'd:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;