Read full poem →Her eyes dejected and her hair unbound.
Full o'er their heads the swelling bag he rent,
And all the furies issued at the vent.
Dictionary Entry
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
In a Sentence
“She pays rent each month to stay in her apartment.”
Origin
Middle English, from Old French "rente" meaning "income".
Common Phrases
. rentrent payrent annual
Poetry examples for “rent”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Inflamed with wrath : he started on his feet,
Tore the king’s letter, snow’d it down, and rent 60
The wonder of the loom thro’ warp and woof
Read full poem →Is rent now in twain by the strength of his hand
Who stirs up the storm of his sons overbold
Read full poem →Lo, for no noise or light of thunder
Shall these grave-clothes be rent in sunder;
He that hath taken, shall he give?
Read full poem →Where’er a living thing can grow,
On chilly hills and rocky rent,
And by the lowly streamlet’s side
Read full poem →What gift with me was on her birthday sent,
But cruelly by her was drowned and rent.
First of thy mind the happy seeds I knew;[347]
Read full poem →And Venus grieves, Tibullus' life being spent,
As when the wild boar Adon's groin had rent.
The gods' care we are called, and men of piety,
Read full poem →Of talk, and beef, and frothing beer,
I, my own steward, took my rent,
Three hundred pounds for half the year;
Read full poem →There it must droop like a shower-beaten flower,
Red at the rent core and dark with the rain.
Ah! yet what shelter is still shed above it, —
Read full poem →know the dam rent’s going to and everything and never, never
Never to stand at no window