Read full poem →Now no more of winters biting,
Filth in trench from fall to spring,
Summers full of sweat and fighting
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To enter into or begin an activity, especially with enthusiasm or commitment and especially in regard to the activities of eating or drinking.
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Poetry examples for “fall to”
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Read full poem →The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay,
Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away;
But fix'd his word, his saving power remains;
Read full poem →Shall this dust gather flesh hereafter?
Shall one shed tears or fall to laughter,
At sight of all these poor old dead?
Read full poem →When they take from the people the freedom of words,
They teach them the sooner to fall to their swords.
Read full poem →Since pains in back and shoulder like to father's
Fall to him at the age that father had them,
Father has entered him, has settled down
Read full poem →A beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal trash
Fall to the residuary worm; ' world's wildfire, leave but ash:
In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
Read full poem →Calling out like a press after thieves.
The young men all fall to remarking,
And laugh till they're weary to see't,
Read full poem →Thou wilt not with Predestination round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?
Read full poem →From fall to spring, the russet acorn,
Fruit beloved of maid and boy,
Read full poem →Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.