Read full poem →Pale stains of dust and rust.
A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;
The token of him being upon this wise
Dictionary Entry
To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rivenasunder riven
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Poetry examples for “riven”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The long strife at length is striven:
Till her grave-bands shall be riven
Such is the good portion given
Read full poem →From more than friends on earth,
Thy life and love are riven,
To join the untainted mirth
Read full poem →From more than friends on earth,
Thy life and love are riven,
To join the untainted mirth
Read full poem →Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth.
To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven--
From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven--
Read full poem →Yet many eke of them (God wot) are driven
T' accept a benefice in pieces riven.
How say'st thou (friend), have I not well discourst
Read full poem →And piteous plaints she filleth his dull eares,
That stony hart could riven have in twaine, 390
And all the way she wets with flowing teares:
Read full poem →To hide the cankering venom, that had riven
His fainting recollections. Now indeed
Read full poem →Whose radiance mocked the ruin it adorned!)
Through clouds of fire the massy fragments riven,
Like Israel's pillar, chase the night from heaven;
Read full poem →To free them from the pit where they must dwell
In outcast gloom convulsed and jagged and riven
By grappling guns. Love drove me to rebel.