Read full poem →To cheat our sentenced souls of aught they crave,
And mar the merriment as you and I
Fare on our long fool's-errand to the grave.
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “mar”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →leads us by a very sure and direct path to the true theory of mar-
riage,
Read full poem →If one day's sorrow
Mar the day's morrow--
If man's life borrow
Read full poem →cession of friends ; "particularly, in the House
of Conmions, Mr. Andrew Mar\'ell, a member
for Hull, acted vigorously in his behalf, and
Read full poem →In the year preceding; Cromwell's death
Mar veil had celebrated the great victory
obtained by Blake at Santa Cruz, and ten years
Read full poem →of Charles I., Cromwell was the one strong man
who could safely guide the country, and Mar-
vell, though no Roundhead, could not but
Read full poem →Let's mar our pleasant days no more,
Song-birds of passage, days of youth:
Read full poem →Let's mar our plesant days no more,
Song-birds of passage, days of youth:
Read full poem →Her cheeks were scratched, her goodly hairs dishevelled.
She, wailing Mar's sin and her uncle's crime,
Strayed barefoot through sole places[375] on a time. 50
Read full poem →poem on Shakespeare (prefixed to the first folio of
Shakespeare's collected works, 1623) speaks of * Mar-
lowe's mighty line.' In 'Gorboduc' the lines are mono-
