Read full poem →Is but the light, the light! So still it stands
Surely our own if we exert our might.
Fool! Never can'st thou grasp this fleeting gleam,
Dictionary Entry
To put in vigorous action.
In a Sentence
“I exerted myself in today's training.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
pressure exertthemselves exerthimself exertinfluence exert
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Poetry examples for “exert”
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Read full poem →cess expected from it. The failure of their first hope
obliged the principal manager to exert himself ; and
he accordingly, with that happy facility which ac-
Read full poem →Perhaps, to whisper something in the ear
That will exert itself against the mass
That grows, proliferates; but for the rest
Read full poem →The stars, no longer overlaid with weight,
Exert their heads from underneath the mass, }
And upward shoot, and kindle as they pass, }
Read full poem →'' Become thy prey j and ijMWttlion still
^ On man's superior race exert thy tyrant wtll'^
Read full poem →O Virtue, smiling in immortal green,
Do thou exert thy pow'r, and change the scene;
Be thine employ to guide my future days,
Read full poem →O thou stupendous, earth-enclosing main
Exert thy wonders to the world again!
If ere thy pow'r prolong'd the fleeting breath,
Read full poem →- Never did I exert myself more than at this time, to
save the people from this vortex of ruin. I yielded to
Read full poem →And beauty smile auspicious in each face
To ease their pain exert your milder power;
So shall you guiltless reign, and all mankind adore.