Read full poem →Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer
Looks Godward, past the shades where blind men grope
Round the dark door that prayers nor dreams can ope,
Dictionary Entry
An act of groping, especially sexually.
In a Sentence
“the old man tried to get a quick grope of the young lady on the train.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. gropearound gropegrope only
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “grope”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Nor more if any way may be
For you to grope or fly to find it.
Read full poem →And sometimes through life’s heavy swound
We grope for them!—with strangled breath
We stretch our hands abroad and try
Read full poem →The Bravest -- grope a little --
And sometimes hit a Tree
Read full poem →We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy darkness grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Read full poem →Whene'er, o'ercoming fear, I dare to move,
I grope without direction and by chance.
Some feign to hear a voice and feel a hand
Read full poem →Rich are the sea-gods:--who gives gifts but they?
They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:
They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise.
Read full poem →Where one small orange cup amassed
Five beetles--blind and green they grope
Among the honey-meal; and last,
Read full poem →To drag you out for just a good-night call
On the old peach trees on the knoll to grope
By starlight in the grass for a last peach
Read full poem →By grappling guns. Love drove me to rebel.
Love drives me back to grope with them through hell;
And in their tortured eyes I stand forgiven.