Read full poem →They strike the soul, and glitter in the eye.
Fired by the sight, all reason I disdain;
My passions rise, and will not bear the rein.
Dictionary Entry
To set (something, often a building) on fire.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. firedupon fired
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Poetry examples for “fired”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Together o'er the Alps methinks we fly,
Fired with ideas of fair Italy.
With thee on Raphael's monument I mourn.
Read full poem →1 With no poetic ardour fired,
I press the bed where Wilmot lay;
Read full poem →And throws a lustre o'er the pomp she leads;
First gives the palm she fired him to obtain, 5
Crowns his gay brow, and shows him how to reign.
Read full poem →Her charms the Gallic Muses next inspired;
Corneille himself saw, wonder'd, and was fired.
Read full poem →Groves, where immortal sages taught:
Where heavenly visions Plato fired,
And Epicurus' lay inspired;
Read full poem →Three or four, or, it may be, five, of these people were slaughtered.
Some declared they had, one of them, fired on a sentinel; others
Say they were only escaping; a Priest, it is currently stated,
Read full poem →And now, reader, when thou art fired into rage or melted into pity by
their tragic scenes, charmed with the genteel elegance or bursting into
Read full poem →Their wilting hearts on his, were fired to race
Read full poem →Expected, comfortless, the day,
Which slowly fired the clouds above;
The cock scream’d, somewhere far away;