Read full poem →Bitter breast-cares have I abided,
Known on my keel many a care's hold,
And dire sea-surge, and there I oft spent
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “keel”
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Read full poem →On the morrow said the King;
"Finished now from keel to carling;
Never yet was seen in Norway
Read full poem →Portunus took his turn, whose ample hand
Heaved up the lightened keel, and sunk the sand,
And steered the sacred vessel safe to land.
Read full poem →And if one ship misbehave,
--Keel so much as grate the ground.
Why, I've nothing but my life,--here's my head!" cries Herve Riel.
Read full poem →And if one ship misbehave,
--Keel so much as grate the ground.
Why, I've nothing but my life,--here's my head!" cries Hervé Riel.
Read full poem →And wow! he has an unco sleight
O’ cauk and keel.
Read full poem →But in the unfolding of his precocious spirit, the literary control
comes uppermost; his boat, finding its keel, swings to the helm of mind.
How should it be otherwise for a youth well-born, well-bred,
Read full poem →in the unfolding of his precocious spirit, the literary
control comes uppermost; his boat, finding its keel,
swings to the helm of mind. How should it be
Read full poem →Withouten wind, withouten tide
She steddies with upright keel.
Read full poem →Under the keel nine fathom deep
From the land of mist and snow
