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To shoot with arrows (at).
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Poetry examples for “roving”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →JOAN. Nowhere. He roves about. Seeing the world, ’e calls it. Roving
blood. That’s been ’is curse; and mind, ’is roving blood, it haven’t
Read full poem →Her ancient beauty marr'd,
And, in her cold and aimless roving sight,
Horror of light;
Read full poem →You will not lie with my consent;
And Sappho is a roving dust;
Cressid could love again; Dido,
Read full poem →You will not lie with my consent;
And Sappho is a roving dust;
Cressid could love again; Dido,
Read full poem →These latter scenes confine my roving vers,
To this Horizon is my Phoebus bound,
Read full poem →These latter scenes confine my roving vers,
To this Horizon is my Phoebus bound,
Read full poem →life there to me: “Wine and figs and pasta. And sunlight! And amusing
companions, dozens of other beach-combers roving the dockyards and
water-front streets, getting their heads whacked by the Fascisti, and
Read full poem →[Venice. A Fragment.] _MS. M_ 537
So we'll go no more a-roving. First published, _Letters and
Journals_, 1830, ii. 79 538
Read full poem →No woven web of bloody heraldries,
But mossy dells for roving comrades made,
Warm valleys where the tired student lies