Read full poem →Love has gone and left me,--and the neighbors knock and borrow,
And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse,--
And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “mouse”
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Read full poem →Close packed, they make a thicket fancy alone
Can creep through with the mouse and wren. Next
Spring
Read full poem →Only the moon, the mouse and the sparrow peeped
In from the ivy round the casement thick.
Read full poem →Makes a pretty flutter for a season in the sun;
You are what it is that with a mouse, Jane Wayland,
Catches him and lets him go and eats him up for fun."--
Read full poem →so on according to their rank, the last being the little
mouse which sat at the lion’s left.
Read full poem →such small animals as the mouse, and the insects that
Read full poem →Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!
Read full poem →Red and steaming in the sun,
Where the shrew-mouse with pale throat
Burrows, and the speckled stoat;
Read full poem →To set the quick jerboa a-musing outside his sand house-- 45
There are none such as he for a wonder, half bird and half mouse!
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
Read full poem →descriptive of the Scots peasant life with which he was most familiar;
and a group like “Puir Mailie” and “To a Mouse,” which, in the
tenderness of their treatment of animals, revealed one of the most