Read full poem →Big bees their burly bodies swung,
Rooks roused with civic din the elms,
And lark its wild reveillez rung;
Dictionary Entry
To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
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Common Phrases
himself roused. roused
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Poetry examples for “roused”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →——Roused by importunate knocks
I rose, I turned the key, and let them in,
Read full poem →It roused an Arab-black girl from Algeria into a shak-
ing-mad mood. And she jazzed right out into the center
Read full poem →Till I, for blessing, blessing give again,
And my roused spirit is
Another fire of bliss,
Read full poem →Like Elenor Murray's, minister, nor know
The jungle has been roused in throat or lungs;
And shapes venene begin to crawl and eat
Read full poem →Is thoughtless of me--you are kissed
And roused from slumber dreamless, deep--
You rub away the slumber's mist,
Read full poem →Restiff and slumbering on its arms;
'Tis roused, and, with a new-strung nerve, the spear already shakes.
No neighing of the warrior steeds,
Read full poem →And then the sharp fangs gored their bosoms deep. _20
Ere morn I roused myself, and heard my sons,
Read full poem →As Silver Scissors slice a blue Brocade;
Though were the Dragon from its Hollow roused,
The Dragon of the Stars would stare Aghast.
Read full poem →Fire’s hostility; and not far off
Lay that sword-hatred ready to be roused
In the deadly feud of father and son-in-law).