Read full poem →until the heavens , envying
earth's good hap, and Ben
Jonson, Sad Shepherd I 5,
Dictionary Entry
(in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
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. haparnold happened hapemissions haphap good
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Poetry examples for “hap”
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Read full poem →Now love and hate my light breast each way move,
But victory, I think, will hap to love.
I'll hate, if I can; if not, love 'gainst my will,
Read full poem →What horse-driver thou favour'st most is best,
Because on him thy care doth hap to rest.
Such chance let me have: I would bravely run,
Read full poem →She holds, and views her old locks in her lap;
Ay me! rare gifts unworthy such a hap!
Cheer up thyself, thy loss thou may'st repair,
Read full poem →And say "This blab shall suffer punishment." 60
Why fight'st 'gainst odds? to thee, being cast, do hap
Sharp stripes; she sitteth in the judge's lap.
Read full poem →‘Honoria,’ I began—No more.
The Dean, by ill or happy hap,
Came home; and Wolf burst in before,
Read full poem →All the mishap the which our daies outweares;
All the good hap of th’oldest times afore,
Rome, in the time of her great ancesters,
Read full poem →There was trouble with the Indians, and the members of
the expedition were glad to go home with Drake, who hap-
pened to visit Roanoke in 1586. They took home with them
Read full poem →OCATI LEPHONE PREFIXES ~
BY EXCHANGES. we Hap Bed TA le
Read full poem →Yet there is something that doth force my fear,
For once it was my dismal hap to hear
A Sybil old, bow-bent with crooked age,