Read full poem →And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
Dictionary Entry
A weight of 1/288 of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
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Poetry examples for “s”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →“And here’s a bloody hand to shake,
And oh, man, here’s good-bye;
Read full poem →“Oh, whether I a friend am, or whether I’m a foe-man,
It’s here I mean to stay now, until I have to go!”
Read full poem →In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover’s sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow,
Read full poem →Oh wide's the world, to rest or roam,
With change abroad and cheer at home,
Read full poem →The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.
Read full poem →Home! Home, at last! Who’s there? Anyone there?
What? Nobody? No fire? Oh, bitter cold----
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
always roved. He liked his ease, he liked the victuals I give him well
Read full poem →Night should ease a lover’s sorrow;