Read full poem →Oh, look in my eyes then, can you doubt?
es Why, tis a mile from town.
Dictionary Entry
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
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. mileaway milelong milewide milemile onemile permile squaremile half
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Poetry examples for “mile”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Oh, look in my eyes, then, can you doubt?
-Why, 'tis a mile from town.
How green the grass is all about!
Read full poem →In the red-rose land not a mile
Of the meadows from stile to stile,
Read full poem →The orchard here is near and home-like.
The oats in the valley run a mile.
Between are the green and marching potato vines.
Read full poem →"Do you mean Puss and that other fellow?" Frank asked, with a
laugh. "Oh, they're a mile or two off, and even if they could see the
biggest of fires I'd defy them to get half way here if they took the
Read full poem →We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
Read full poem →It is not to tryst, for a heart at the mile’s end
beckons me on.
Read full poem →To which I woke to say farewell.
Noon finds me many a mile removed
From her who must not be beloved;
Read full poem →Who gave her service in the world at war,
Was found along the river's shore, a mile
Above Starved Rock, on August 7th, the day
Read full poem →A beach as yellow as gold
Daisied with tents for a lovely mile.
And a sea that edges and walls the sand with blue,