Read full poem →In our sorrow we said to the night,
Fall down and cover us;
To the darkness at left and at right,
Dictionary Entry
To fall to the ground. To collapse.
In a Sentence
“Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (British version)”
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Poetry examples for “fall down”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Trembling before Thee we fall down to adore Thee,
Shamefaced and trembling we lift our eyes to Thee:
Read full poem →'The Heaven hard has scorn'd your cry;
Fall down and worship me, and I
Will give you peace; go and profane
Read full poem →Those engins can the proudest love convert:
And, if those fayle, fall down and dy before her;
So dying live, and living do adore her.
Read full poem →“T tell yeh what I’m ’fraid of, Henry—I ’ll tell yeh what I ’m
fraid of. I ’m ’fraid I ’Il fall down—an’ then yeh know—them
damned artillery wagons—they like as not “Il run over me. That