Read full poem →Or popularity? or stars and strings?
The mob's applauses, or the gifts of kings?
Say with what eyes we ought at courts to gaze,
Dictionary Entry
Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
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. giftsgifts spiritual
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Poetry examples for “gifts”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
On a Fan of the Author's Design, in Which Was Painted the Story of Cephalus and Procris, With the Motto, 'aura Veni.'byAlexander Pope
Read full poem →Nor could that fabled dart more surely wound:
Both gifts destructive to the givers prove;
Alike both lovers fall by those they love.
Read full poem →Soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing tears.
The Gnome rejoicing bears her gifts away,
Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day.
Read full poem →And splendours of the morning land,
Gifts from every British zone ;
Read full poem →My father sent ambassadors with furs
And jewels, gifts, to fetch her : these brought back
A present, a great labor of the loom ;
Read full poem →That here at once his soul put by
All gifts of time and change,
And left us heavier hearts to sigh
Read full poem →Under this tree,
Tending the gifts I have not brought,
The rare and goodly things
Read full poem →About the entrance parted as the guests
Filed singly in with rare and precious gifts.
Our eager fancies noted all they brought,
Read full poem →Hold your apron wide
That I may pour my gifts into it,
So that scarcely shall your two arms hinder them
Read full poem →To me it is not so. I love the earth
And all the gifts of her so lavish hand:
Sunshine and flowers, rivers and rushing winds,