Read full poem →Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:
Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation-
Dictionary Entry
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “rive”
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Read full poem →Star may plot in heaven with planet,
Lightning rive the rock of granite,
Tempest tread the oakwood under:
Read full poem →Weakness! and worse, weakness bestowed in vain!
Winds from our side the unsuiting consort rive;
We rush by coasts where we had lief remain:
Read full poem →Which thus the buried Past can tell,
Should rive the Future, and reveal
What his dread folds would fain conceal?
Read full poem →Floating in air or pent in stone,
Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
And, like thy shadow, follow thee.
Read full poem →Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit hums.
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