Read full poem →Music can soften pain to ease,
And make despair and madness please:
Our joys below it can improve,
Dictionary Entry
The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. madness
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Poetry examples for “madness”
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Read full poem →Till some new tyrant lifts his purple hand,
And civil madness tears them from the land.
Read full poem →Every tiger madness muzzled, every serpent passion
kill’d,
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 →After madness, after massacre, Jacobinism and
Jacquerie,
Read full poem →10.
And the vitriol madness flushes up in the ruffian's head,
Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife,
Read full poem →What profit is given them of thee;
What wrath has enkindled with madness of mind
Her limbs that were bounden, his face that was blind,
Read full poem →Nor the winter sublimer with storm than the spring: such mirth had
the madness and might in thee made,
March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that
Read full poem →Marshals its undefeated dark and raves
In brutal madness, reeling over graves
Of vanquished men, long-sunken out of sight,
Read full poem →demands thy presence ; and above all, remember the feigned
madness I have tangly thee for thy next interview with Sir
Epicure — much depends on that. - >