Read full poem →Hurls up the scaly ooze, and makes the scaly brood
Leap madding to the land affrighted from the flood;
O'erturns the toiling barch whose steersman does not launch,
Dictionary Entry
To be or become mad.
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Common Phrases
crowd maddingcrowds maddingwar madding. maddingfever maddingwheels madding
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Poetry examples for “madding”
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Read full poem →Has lost. Once thou didst loathe the multitude _5
Of blind and madding men--I then loved thee--
I loved thy lofty songs and that sweet mood
Read full poem →"The just man in his purpose strong,
No madding crowd can turn to wrong.
The forceful tyrant's brow and word
Read full poem →With Incense, kindled at the Muse's Flame.
Far from the madding Crowd's ignoble Strife,
Their sober Wishes never learn'd to stray;
Read full poem →Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Read full poem →How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true