Read full poem →A bar drops from its place; a rafter falls
Burning the flowers. The wind in frenzy moans.
The watchers gaze, held wondering by the fire,
Dictionary Entry
A state of wild activity or panic.
In a Sentence
“She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “frenzy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sane purposes insanely work,
Now with fraternal frenzy beats,
And binds the Christian to the Turk,
Read full poem →Bears out their frenzy to its period,
And hears in the spring, a little more rheumy and deaf,
Read full poem →Of others' sight, familiar were to hers.
And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise
Have a far deeper madness--and the glance
Read full poem →(It was the first after I came,
Breathing self-murder, frenzy, spite,
To rue my guilt in endless flame)--
Read full poem →For silent death; or lost the mind's controll,
Thro' every burning vein would tides of Frenzy roll. 20
Read full poem →She lived . . . I, afar in the city
Of frenzy-led factions,
Had squandered green years and maturer
Read full poem →And find my health again in the sea air,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And make my soul before my pate is bare.'
Read full poem →And when the second twilight brought
The frenzy of the beggars' moon
They closed their blood-shot eyes for naught.
Read full poem →Fierce, and unfeminine, are there,
Frenzy for joy, for grief despair;
And I the cause--for whom were given