Read full poem →Amidst the moonlight pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest lads and hale.
Dictionary Entry
To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
In a Sentence
“to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “kept”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But if the Christmas field has kept
Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Read full poem →Happiness is not made to consist in these, v.51. But, notwithstanding
that inequality, the balance of Happiness among Mankind is kept even by
Providence, by the two Passions of Hope and Fear, v.70. III. What the
Read full poem →A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate,
Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great:
Foe to loud praise, and friend to learnèd ease,
Read full poem →Commanding tears to stream through every age;
Tyrants no more their savage nature kept,
And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept.
Read full poem →Commanding tears to stream through every age;
Tyrants no more their savage nature kept,
And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept.
Read full poem →Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
There kept my charms conceal'd from mortal eye,
Like roses that in deserts bloom and die.
Read full poem →And sister Lilia with the rest.” We went
(I kept the book and had my finger in it)
Down thro’ the park : strange was the sight to me ;
Read full poem →“Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free”
To — (“All good things have not kept aloof”)
Buonaparte
Read full poem →tion in literature. Although he kept abreast of the intel-
lectual progress of his times and expressed it in his poetry,