Read full poem →And garrets hung with green;
I know the swing of sinful hack,
Where many damsels cry alack.
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Poetry examples for “hack”
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Read full poem →Flying, and Arthur call’d to stay the brands
That hack’d among the flyers, ‘Ho! they yield!’
So like a painted battle the war stood
Read full poem →derbeg rogue ! O that I had but a horse to fetch him
hack again !
Read full poem →is nothing ; he travels you through a quarto, much as a
hack horse goes over his beaten road ! but to the light-
hearted, volatile reader, with whom literature is a luxury,
Read full poem →Kill your hogs with a knife slit under the ear.
Hack them with cleavers.
Hang them with hooks in the hind legs.
Read full poem →And strange it was to see God with His back
Against a wall, to see Christ hew and hack
Till Lucifer, pressed by the mighty pair,
Read full poem →Poor madam, now condemn'd to hack
The rest of life with anxious Jack,
Read full poem →he had subsequently been a foot soldier; ultimately he became a
‘bookseller’s hack.’ He wrote an anonymous letter to Garrick in 1759, and
translated the _ Henriade_ of Voltaire. This translation
Read full poem →Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
Who long was a booksellers’ hack;
He led such a damnable life in this world,
Read full poem →Poor Madam, now condemn’d to hack
The rest of life with anxious Jack,