Read full poem →For the long loose ripples of the meadow-grass
Invite me to dance upon them.
Dictionary Entry
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
In a Sentence
“We invited our friends round for dinner.”
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Poetry examples for “invite”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Under Vesevus's hill,--are we receding to thee?--
Sicily, Greece, will invite, and the Orient;--or are we turn to
England, which may after all be for its children the best?
Read full poem →urged and entreated them to continue with him. Now he did
not at all invite Cato to stay, but as if his own power were
lessened by the other’s presence, he very willingly allowed him
Read full poem →time, either by some difficulty of the thing itself, or on purpose |
to invite the enemy nearer. Plutarch, interpreting this tardi-
ness as a failure in his courage, fell on alone with the mercenaries,
Read full poem →“ Should worthily invite you to your rank.
Read full poem →Will wrap thee gently in her sable sheet,
And with a leaden sigh thou wilt invite
To rest thy tired hands and aching feet.
Read full poem →Ere ye again, who so in vain have wooed
Your last hope lost, who so in vain invite
Your lips to that their unforgotten food,
Read full poem →in such a project are unnamed and unnamable.
It is not stated whether it is proposed to invite
the nations that have established the present
Read full poem →Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my strife. If thou invite me forth,
I rise above abasement at the word.
Read full poem →“ Let us invite all the small animals — such as Por-
cupine, Beaver, Raccoon, Marten, Mink, even down to