Read full poem →Fired by the sight, all reason I disdain;
My passions rise, and will not bear the rein.
Look upon basset, you who reason boast,
Dictionary Entry
A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. reinover reinrein freerein tightrein drewrein fullrein looserein give
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Poetry examples for “rein”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And the mighty gods have their fill
And relax not the rein, or the rod.
Read full poem →And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were queen of pleasure,
Read full poem →So he jauntily swaggered towards the maid
And put out his hand to the bridle-rein.
"My pretty girl," quoth the fool, "take me up,
Read full poem →What dost, unhappy? her good wishes fade:
Let with strong hand the rein to bend be made.
One slow we favour, Romans, him revoke:
Read full poem →strongly supports the view that "bear hard" in _Julius CÊsar_ means
"curb, keep a tight rein over" (hence "eye with suspicion"). Cf.
Christopher Clifford's _School of Horsemanship_ (1585):--"But the most
Read full poem →Had God himself not made it plain!
This revelation lays the rein--
If I may speak so--on the neck
Read full poem →One day's controlled hope, and one again,
And then the third, and ye shall have the rein,
O Life, Death, Terror, Love!
Read full poem →One day's controlled hope, and one again,
And then the third, and ye shall have the rein,
O Life, Death, Terror, Love!
Read full poem →As young as Truth, as calm as Force,
She draws her rein now, while her horse