Read full poem →And the car of triumph waits,
And they open wide the gates.
But across the entry barred
Dictionary Entry
A doorlike structure outside a house.
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Poetry examples for “gates”
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Read full poem →On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
There passengers shall stand, and pointing say,
Read full poem →Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
See barbarous nations at thy gates attend,
Walk in thy light and in thy temple bend;
Read full poem →The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. London: Printed by W.
BOWYER for BERNARD LINTOT, between the Temple Gates, 1717.
4to and folio.
Read full poem →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
The shrill-edged shriek of a mother divide the shuddering night.
Read full poem →past:
Where beyond the extreme sea-wall, and between the remote sea-gates,
Waste water washes, and tall ships founder, and deep death waits:
Read full poem →Far out with the foam of the present that sweeps to the surf of the past:
Where beyond the extreme sea-wall, and between the remote sea-gates,
Waste water washes, and tall ships founder, and deep death waits:
Read full poem →Their wisdom not more wise than glad:
They saw the gates of promise ope,
And heard what love's lips bade.
Read full poem →Leading me on, under crimson leaves,
To the opaline gates of the Castles of Dream.
Read full poem →"And where are your legs," asked one, "if you start,
You may be inside the town gates to-night."