Read full poem →And with the noise turns up my giddy brain,
And makes me frantic for my Gaveston.
Ah, had some bloodless Fury rose from hell, 315
Dictionary Entry
A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
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Poetry examples for “frantic”
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Read full poem →And scorn as low their human lot,
With frantic pride, too blind to see
That standing on the head makes not
Read full poem →His own success he thus pursues
With frantic zeal for her sole sake.
To lose her were his life to blight,
Read full poem →Who is this only happy She,
Whom, by a frantic flight of courtesy,
Born of despair
Read full poem →Who is this only happy She,
Whom, by a frantic flight of courtesy,
Born of despair
Read full poem →Is as the bird that bites a bee,
And darts abroad on frantic wing,
Tasting the honey and the sting;
Read full poem →In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
Read full poem →In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
Read full poem →Not of your press, oh, restless, clamorous nine,--
To foam beneath the frantic hoofs of mirth--
But savoring faintly of the acid earth,
Read full poem →Could he have borrowed for a spell
The fiery-frantic indolence
That made a ghost of Leffingwell;