Read full poem →tempest he has introduced in its place an alarm which had no existence.
In the midst of the havoc worked by the elements the recollection of his
brother "wings the feet" of the intrepid Theban "with fears," though he
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Widespread devastation, destruction
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Poetry examples for “havoc”
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Read full poem →Perchance the crude and common tongue
Would havoc strangely with his worth;
But she, with innocence unwrung,
Read full poem →Worst will the best. What worm was here, we cry,
To have havoc-pocked so, see, the hung-heavenward boughs?
Read full poem →And now, my parents, helping you is sweet,--
The rudest havoc fortune could complete;
A piteous couple, little blest with friends,
Read full poem →The Grave shall bear the chiefest prize away,
And Havoc scarce for joy can number their array.
Read full poem →Of Death, and Destruction, and Sin,
And Wealth crying "Havoc!" within?
'Tis the bacchanal triumph that makes Truth dumb,
Read full poem →the city August 14, 1762. But disease had worked greater
havoc than Spanish bullets, and there were scarcely fifty Colon-
ial troops left. All came back on one ship. The prize money
Read full poem →Think ye I made this ball
A field of havoc and war,
Where tyrants great and tyrants small
Read full poem →So did the Corporation, too.
For council dinners made rare havoc
With Claret, deg. Moselle, deg. Vin-de-Grave, deg. Hock deg.; deg.158
Read full poem →lines. The voices of cannon shook him. The musketry sounded in
long irregular surges that played havoc with his ears. He stood
regardant for a moment. His eyes had an awestruck expression.