Read full poem →And wind and words the tether
Our memories play with yet.
Dictionary Entry
To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance.
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Poetry examples for “play with”
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Read full poem →The spirits of the sky deigning to stoop
And play with ocean in a summer mood.
Hanging above the high, wide open door,
Read full poem →Nothing to do,
Nothing to play with,
Except that in an empty room upstairs
Read full poem →His sorrow. Like a little child
He would play with his watches and gems, with glee
Calling the Shadow to look and see
Read full poem →him, intending to finish it the last journey he made to Yorkshire, in the
year 1686. I cannot learn what is become of the play with his Grace's
alterations, but am very well informed it was since the Revolution in the
Read full poem →Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to
play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often
got dull. [would go out and walk around in the backyard, looking at things,
Read full poem →down and begged Porcupine to help him. But Porcu-
pine would not listen and went off to play with some
other porcupines in a hole in the rocks.
Read full poem →Oft has my mother told me so,
I will not play with thee!
Read full poem →Leaps oer the orchard hedge and knarls the grass.
The swine run round and grunt and play with straw,
Snatching out hasty mouthfuls from the stack.