Read full poem →Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep
Dictionary Entry
(usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “rover”
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Read full poem →Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover;
Breath’s a ware that will not keep.
Read full poem →And Agatha's Arth' is a hug-the-hearth,--
But my true love's a rover!
Read full poem →And keeps one hour and never stays it out.
Een at St. Thomas tide old Rover's bark
Hails Dapple's trot an hour before it's dark.
Read full poem →Thou, in sunny solitudes,
Rover of the underwoods,
The green silence dost displace
Read full poem →Song—My Peggy’s Charms
Song—The Young Highland Rover
Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787^1
Read full poem →And Benjamin, without further question,
Taking her for some way-worn rover, 1819.