Dictionary Entry

left hand

The hand on the left side of the body.

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Poetry examples for “left hand”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Or like the night's dew laid upon the night.
Love stands upon thy left hand and thy right,
Yet by no sunset and by no moonrise

On the left hand there is a temple:
And a palace on the right-hand side.

Stern was her front, her cloak[343] on ground did lie.
Her left hand held abroad a regal sceptre,
The Lydian buskin [in] fit paces kept her.

Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend,
His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeined score

Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.
Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend,
His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeinèd score

On the left hand there is a temple:
And a palace on the right-hand side.

Just at that point of time, if fame not lie,
On his left hand twelve reverend owls did fly.
So Romulus, 'tis sung, by Tiber's brook,

Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky,
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,

On the left hand,

To her right hand came the red one,
To her left hand came the blue.