Read full poem →And sleep's are the tunes in its tree-tops heard;
No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart,
Only the song of a secret bird.
Dictionary Entry
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “hart”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →listen to overtures from Davenant, Betterton, and
Smith, who entered into an agreement with Hart and
Kynaston, which effectually detached those performers
Read full poem →And thy crystal-shining quiver;
Give unto the flying hart
Space to breathe, how short soever:
Read full poem →made the two last acts of the Chances almost new. Mr. Hart played the
Read full poem →Like as the hart the water-brooks I Thee
Desire, my hands
Read full poem →omitted by us: the longest, taken from a poem — Der Arme
Heinrkh — is by Hart man n von Aue the old German minne-
singer.s An earlier effort consists of a version of Burger's
Read full poem →At that good knight so cunningly didst rove,
That glorious fire it kindled in his hart,
Lay now thy deadly Heben bow apart,
Read full poem →Which of all earthly things he most did crave;
And ever as he rode, his hart did earne
To prove his puissance in battell brave 25
Read full poem →Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
is not delayd by her hart frosen cold:
but that I burne much more in boyling sweat,
Read full poem →And piteous plaints she filleth his dull eares,
That stony hart could riven have in twaine, 390
And all the way she wets with flowing teares:
