Read full poem →Stir not for the soldiers drilling
Nor the fever nothing cures:
Throb of drum and timbal's rattle
Dictionary Entry
A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
In a Sentence
“"I have a fever. I think I've the flu."”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. feverfever yellowfever typhoidfever scarletfever rheumaticfever high
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Poetry examples for “fever”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →' There the smouldering fire of fever creeps across
the rotted floor,
Read full poem →A call to heavenly good,
A fever in the blood
What are ye, vague desires?
Read full poem →Politics, farewell, however! For what could I do? with inquiring,
Talking, collating the journals, go fever my brain about things o'er
Which I can have no control. No, happen whatever may happen,
Read full poem →But now no balm--nor drug nor weed nor wine--
Can bring true rest to cool my body’s fever,
Nor sweeten in my mouth the acid brine,
Read full poem →I still recall the honey-fever grass,
‘But cannot recollect the high days when
Read full poem →I still recall the honey-fever grass,
But cannot recollect the high days when
Read full poem →The kind of heaven which comes to this.
If doom'd, indeed, this fever ceased,
To die out wholly, like a beast,
Read full poem →And tastelessness within the mouth
Worse fever shows than heat or drouth.
Wherefore take, Frederick, timely fear
Read full poem →Your lives shall still their charmful sway sustain,
Unstifled by the fever'd steam
That rises from the plain.