Read full poem →With glittering studs about;
Within the same did Sandys lurk,
Though Ovid lay without.
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Common Phrases
behind lurk. lurkbeneath lurkwithin lurkunder lurkaround lurklurk still
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Poetry examples for “lurk”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →An Ace of Hearts steps forth: the King unseen
Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen:
He springs to vengeance with an eager pace,
Read full poem →And with mistrust of the like measure vexed.
I and my wench oft under clothes did lurk,
When pleasure moved us to our sweetest work.
Read full poem →Nor every sweetness good;
And grace will sometimes lurk where who could guess?
The Critic of his kind,
Read full poem →If thou shalt let this venom lurk,
And in suggestions fume and work,
Read full poem →Difficulties that lurk in an involved syntax the pupil may usually be
expected to solve by study. But such a peculiar construction as that in
Read full poem →And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread,--behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave _5
Read full poem →The Bee, that fears to drink its purple light,
Lest danger lurk within that Rose's bower?
Hast thou not marked the moth's enamoured flight _5
Abt Vogler: After he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his inventionbyRobert Browning
Read full poem →Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when Solomon willed
Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk,
Man, brute, reptile, fly,--alien of end and of aim,