Read full poem →They sang as they rode, these lusty boys,
When one chanced to turn toward the highway's side,
Dictionary Entry
Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality.
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Poetry examples for “lusty”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Therefore her plants are green, and all
Her pleasant trees lusty and tall.
Read full poem →Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
I'd listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
Read full poem →_Dick._ Fie, lusty younker, what do you here,
Not dancing on the green to-day?
Read full poem →The thing which is not and which is not seen,
One fool, with lusty lungs,
Does what a hundred wise, who hate and hold their tongues,
Read full poem →Of flood or fire.
He springs renewed from a lusty bed
To his youth's desire.
Read full poem →THO. Willy, I ween thou be assot;
For lusty Love still sleepeth not,
But is abroad at his game.
Read full poem →_The white flees, with venym Tyryen_;
_The rennyng_ ryver yaf hem lusty drynke,
And _holsom sleep the[y]_ took _vpon the_ grene.
Read full poem →Made to reporte the lamentation
And woful ende of this lusty Creseyde,
And what distresse she was in or she deyde.'
Read full poem →Plashes amidst the billowy apple-trees
His lusty hands, in gusts of scented wind
Swirling out bloom till all the air is blind
