Read full poem →madness, lust and spite,
Roaring London, raving Paris, in that point of
Dictionary Entry
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “raving”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →On this wild earth of hate and fear;
The thirst for peace, a raving world
Would never let us satiate here.
Read full poem →In weeds of woe, that frantic beat her breast,
And mix’d her wailings with the raving storm
Read full poem →lished much for them, and was one of their elders in
high repute by them. He died in Indiana, raving in
desperation for his folly in forsaking the truth for an old
Read full poem →Our only arms are innocence and meekness.
Not then with raving cries I fill'd the city;
But, while Demetrius, dear, lamented name!
Read full poem →understands not the original, reads the verbal traduction of him into
Latin prose, than which nothing seems more raving.” I then proceeded
with his own free version of the second Olympic, composed for the
Read full poem →"For three days more in dreadful quietude,
"And then arise, and raving slay us all.
"Go, cast on him delusions magical,
Read full poem →Is it the prophet’s thought I speak, or am I raving?
What do I know of life? what of myself?
Read full poem →As if a voice were in them, the sick sight
And giddy prospect of the raving stream,
The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens,