Read full poem →There are, my friend! whose philosophic eyes
Look through, and trust the ruler with his skies,
To him commit the hour, the day, the year,
Dictionary Entry
To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand.
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“Airport security looked through her purse and confiscated her nail scissors.”
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Poetry examples for “look through”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And I hear the water and wind,
And look through the mist, and strain my eyes
To see what there is behind;
Read full poem →Breathless be song,
And let Christ's own look through
The darkness, suddenly increased,
Read full poem →Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,--
The finger-points look through the rosy blooms:
Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms
Read full poem →And see the newborn wood flowers bashful-eyed
Look through the golden tresses here and there.
On these debateable* borders of the year
Read full poem →Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace
To look through and behind this mask of me,
(Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly,
Read full poem →However deeply in men’s spirits skilled,
Look through thine own, nor curb the lust of war,
Nor learn that tempted Fate will leave the loftiest
Read full poem →of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through
the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,