Read full poem →Then am I yours as your high mind may list.
No wile shall lure you, none can I resist!'
Thus the first Eve
Dictionary Entry
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure
Origin
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Common Phrases
. lure
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Poetry examples for “lure”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ye haply trust, by love's benignant guile,
To lure the dark and selfish brood
To their own hated good;
Read full poem →In idle scornful hours he flings away;
And some that listen to his lure's soft tone
Do love to deem the silver praise their own;
Read full poem →mountains)
Sirens > (Sea-nymphs whose sweet singing had the power to lure sailors
to their destruction)
Read full poem →Of the Greek whistler, who to wharf and mart
Could lure those insect swarms from orange-trees
That I might hive with me such thoughts and please
Read full poem →Till muses melt to honey showers;
Lure him to thrum thy empty lays,
While flattery listens to the chimes,
Read full poem →Had rang'd embattled nations at our gates!
But, thus reserv'd to lure the wolves of Turkey,
Adds shame to grief, and infamy to ruin.
Read full poem →And the threat of what is call'd hell is little or nothing to me;
And the lure of what is call'd heaven is little or nothing to me;
Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still
Read full poem →The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger’d, unjust;
The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture—the yearning and swelling
Read full poem →Seems shame to their love pure.
O Love, your eyes lose lure
When I behold eyes blinded in my stead!