Read full poem →As meat digested takes a different name,
But sense must sure thy safest plunder be,
Since no reprisals can be made on thee.
Dictionary Entry
An instance of plundering.
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. plunder
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Poetry examples for “plunder”
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Read full poem →seventy-one years before the coming of Christ; his attempt to
plunder the temple of Diana at Ephesus; his implacable hostility
to the Jews; his pollution of the Holy of Holies; and his
Read full poem →Furrows sweet to the grain, and the weed subdued —
See now the slug and the mildew plunder.
Evil does overwhelm
Read full poem →The old man stared up at the mistletoe
That hung too high in the poplar's crest for plunder
Of any climber, though not for kissing under:
Read full poem →War between England and Holland; Seizure and Plunder of St. Eustatius; the Armed Neutrality;
Recovery of West Florida by Spain ; Continental Currency ; Plan for the Recovery of New York ;
Read full poem →With all the things that they can win
From chance to put their plunder in;--
As shells of walnuts, split in two
Read full poem →All sighed when lawless law's enclosure came
And dreams of plunder in such rebel schemes
Have found too truly that they were but dreams.
Read full poem →He knows a lawless law that claims no kin
But meet and plunder on and feel no sin--
No matter where they go or where they dwell
Read full poem →A second self, that each might be redeem'd
And plunder'd of its load of blessedness.
Ah, desi)erate mortal ! I even dared to press