Read full poem →Sudden he view'd, in spite of all her art,
An earthly lover lurking at her heart.
Amazed, confused, he found his power expired,
Dictionary Entry
To remain concealed in order to ambush.
Origin
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Common Phrases
behind lurkingaround lurkingbeneath lurking. lurkingthere lurkingwithin lurkinglurking still
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Poetry examples for “lurking”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →that thing! In the face of the shadow of Death.
Treacherous hand of murderous Death, lurking in sin-
ister alleys, where the shadows of life dance, nevertheless,
Read full poem →Sons of the seductive night, for your children’s children’s sake,
From the deep primeval forests where the crouching leopard’s lurking,
Lift your heavy-lidded eyes, Ethiopia! awake!
Read full poem →must be lurking near’” and “Bear climbed up a little way, then
Read full poem →"Forests have ears, and fields have eyes;
Often treachery lurking lies
Underneath the fairest hair!
Read full poem →If then such secrecy be crime,
And such it feels while lurking here;
Oh, Selim! tell me yet in time,
Read full poem →High up there are no thorns to prod,
Nor boulders lurking 'neath the clod
To turn the keenness of the share,
Read full poem →A mystic and a cabalist,--
Can your lurking thought surprise,
And interpret your device.
Read full poem →Our schemes for ever cross'd, our mines discover'd,
Betray'd some traitor lurking near my bosom.
Oft have I rag'd, when their wide-wasting cannon
Read full poem →Thy body permanent,
The body lurking there within thy body,
The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,