Dictionary Entry
A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
In a Sentence
“Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “lust”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The rage of power, the blast of public breath,
The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.
Read full poem →Lotis the nymph (if rural tales be true)
As from Priapus' lawless lust she flew,
Forsook her form, and, fixing here, became
Read full poem →In every age, in every state!
Still, when the lust of tyrant power succeeds,
Some Athens perishes, some Tully bleeds.
Read full poem →Could we dream of wars and carnage, craft and
madness, lust and spite,
Roaring London, raving Paris, in that point of
Read full poem →Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own;
And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse
Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?
Read full poem →The burden of much gladness. Life and lust
Forsake thee, and the face of thy delight;
Read full poem →The token of him being upon this wise
Made for a sign of Lust.
Read full poem →For the sin of stately places
And lordship of lust;
Read full poem →dew.
With the thirst and the hunger of lust though her beautiful lips be so
bitter,