Read full poem →And on the broken pavement, here and there,
Doth many a stinking sprat and herring lie;
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In, at or to various places; in one place and another.
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Poetry examples for “here and there”
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Read full poem →And now the Barons and the kings prevail’d,
And now the King, as here and there that war
Went swaying; but the Powers who walk the world
Read full poem →SORROW, on wing through the world for ever,
Here and there for awhile would borrow
Rest, if rest might haply deliver
Read full poem →Dark midnight storms had roared and crashed among
Its branches, breaking here and there a limb;
But every now and then broad sunlit days
Read full poem →Oozily crawling through the mud.
The ground is here and there bestud
With lumps of only part-burned coal.
Read full poem →Scored by runnels, that fringe ere they end with rowan and alder:
Cottages here and there outstanding bare on the mountain,
Peat-roofed, windowless, white; the road underneath by the water.
Read full poem →No pushing crowd, no tramping, tramping feet.
But here and there a few cars groaning creep
Along, above, and underneath the street,
Read full poem →God fails not to humiliate;
Not these: but souls, found here and there,
Oases in our waste of sin,
Read full poem →An idle poet, here and there,
Looks round him; but, for all the rest,
Read full poem →The gorse-field dark, by sudden, gold caprice,
Turns, here and there, into a Jason's fleece;
Lilies, that soon in Autumn slipp'd their gowns of green,