Dictionary Entry
A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
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Poetry examples for “gull”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Kno. What would you do, you peremptory gull?
]f you cannot be quiet, get you hence.
Read full poem →doubtful, and threatens — What 1 my wise cousin !
Nay, then I’ll furnish our feast-witn one gull more
tow’rd the mess. He writes to me of a brace, and
Read full poem →That thinks I do to private taxing[458] lean, 10
Bid him go hang, for he is but a gull,
And knows not what an epigram doth[459] mean,
Read full poem →I, knowing how it doth the humour fit
Of this fond gull to be saluted first,
Catch at my cap, but move it not a whit:
Read full poem →With title of "Tenth Worthy" doth her lade.
Methinks that gull did use his terms as fit,
Which term'd his love "a giant for her wit."
Read full poem →the back of the stage. They must have been very dark and uncomfortable.
In the _Gull's Horn-Book_ Dekker says that "much new Satin was there
dampned by being smothered to death in darkness."
Read full poem →Oft in my laughing rhymes I name a gull;
But this new term will many questions breed;
Read full poem →Kaween’, no indeed
Kayoshk’, the sea-gull
Kee’go, a fish
Read full poem →Yet love these Sorceries did remove, and move 25
Thee to gull thine owne mother for my love.
Thy little brethren, which like Faiery Sprights
