Read full poem →My courage yearn'd it to awake,
And manfully thereat shot:
With that sprang forth a naked swain;
Dictionary Entry
In a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.
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. manfullyagainst manfullymanfully struggledmanfully fightmanfully fought
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Poetry examples for “manfully”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
All that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no,
All suggestions of the divine mind of man, or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of