Read full poem →Nothing stands that stood before;
There revenges are forgot,
Dictionary Entry
Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
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Common Phrases
. nothingelse nothingnothing said
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Poetry examples for “nothing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And sure unslackened stride
And smiles and nothing spoken
Led on my merry guide.
Read full poem →"I will go where I am wanted, to a lady born and bred
Who will dress me free for nothing in a uniform of red;
She will not be sick to see me if I only keep it clean:
Read full poem →The pine lets fall its cone;
The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing
In leafy dells alone;
Read full poem →All is quiet, no alarms;
Nothing fear of nightly harms.
Safe you sleep on guarded ground,
Read full poem →Stir not for the soldiers drilling
Nor the fever nothing cures:
Throb of drum and timbal's rattle
Read full poem →Its rainy-sounding silver leaves;
And I spell nothing in their stir,
But now perhaps they speak to her,