Read full poem →So here are things to think on
That ought to make me brave,
As I strap on for fighting
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Common Phrases
never ought. oughtalways oughtrather ought
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Poetry examples for “ought”
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Read full poem →Tells he was born and died, and tells no more.
Just as he ought, he fill'd the space between;
Then stole to rest, unheeded and unseen.
Read full poem →The mob's applauses, or the gifts of kings?
Say with what eyes we ought at courts to gaze,
And pay the great our homage of amaze?
Read full poem →War he said, " I think the cause was too good to
have been fought for. Men ought to have trusted
God ; they ought and might have trusted the
Read full poem →T' return unto Thee praise
And walk before Thee as they ought,
In strict and upright ways.
Read full poem →Most truly honoured, and as truly dear,
If worth in me or ought I do appear,
Who can of right better demand the same
Read full poem →My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay.
Read full poem →But may be clean-denied me e’en to-day,
And tho’ ’twere certain, yet were ought but bread;
Letting—for so they say, it seems, I said,
Read full poem →But I thought, if he came all the way to Milan, he really
Ought not to be disappointed: and so I wrote three lines to
Say I had heard he was coming, desirous of joining our party;--
Read full poem →^ Put me* on th* wild island.] I have given these lines as I think we ought to read them,
but very different from what are printed in this edition. J'our of the old quarto's, the folio^