Read full poem →I remember the time, for the roots of my hair were stirr'd
By a shuffled step, by a dead weight trail'd, by a whisper'd fright,
And my pulses closed their gates with a shock on my heart as I heard
Dictionary Entry
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “fright”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Snowdrops that plead for pardon
And pine for fright
Because the hard East blows
Read full poem →The earth deform, and heaven fright.
Read full poem →Had answered, to your wonder, that ’twas dead,
Forsooth the molten lava of your fright
Forth from your brain, its crater, hurrying down,
Read full poem →Had answered, to your wonder, that ’twas dead,
Forsooth the molten lava of your fright
Forth from your brain, its crater, hurrying down,
Read full poem →War. But I long more to see him banished hence. 5
F. Mor, The name of Mortimer shall fright the
king.
Read full poem →And fasten in our bleeding flesh their claws.
They beat us to surrender weak with fright,
And tugging and tearing without let or pause,
Read full poem →Is here her rule of godliness.
I took him not for love but fright;
He did but ask a dreadful right.
Read full poem →He shared with none his grief for Jane.
It all comes of the foolish fright
Men feel at the word, hypocrite.
Read full poem →'How did I feel?' The little wight
Fill'd me, unfatherly, with fright!
So grim it gazed, and, out of the sky,