Read full poem →The thief condemn'd, in law already dead,
So prompts, and saves a rogue who cannot read.
Thus as the pipes of some carved organ move,
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A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
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Poetry examples for “rogue”
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Read full poem →She scratchèd, bit, and spared ne lace ne band,
And 'bitch' and 'rogue' her answer was to all;
Nay, even the parts of shame by name would call:
Read full poem →And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam,
That the smoothfaced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till,
And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.------
Read full poem →Step. And I stay’d i’ the fields! Whoreson, Scan-_
derbeg rogue ! O that I had but a horse to fetch him
hack again !
Read full poem →lAttU trench Lawyer , a comedy. The plot is borrowed from Gusmali^
t>r the Spanish Rogue^ part ii. chap. 4. The story of Dinant, Clereraont,
and Lamira, being borrowed from Don Lewis de Castro, and Don Rode-
Read full poem →For leagued, alas, are we
With many a faithful rogue
Discrediting bright Truth with dirt and brogue;
Read full poem →Would praise the vilest and the worst of men.
A rogue like Hodge[4] am I, the world well know it;
Hodge was his fiddler, and I, John, his poet.
Read full poem →While the bacon and liver went merrily round:
But what vexed me most was that d——d Scottish rogue,
With his long-winded speeches, his smiles, and his brogue;
Read full poem →While the bacon and liver went merrily round.
But what vex’d me most was that d—’d Scottish rogue,
With his long-winded speeches, his smiles and his brogue; 90
Read full poem →other public favors; but faithful, honest, industrious and econ-
omical. The rogue’s gallery or the police reports are the last
places to look for a Wheatley. Rather disposed to keep their
