Read full poem →Douglas, who refused to leave his ship when
it had been set on fire by the Dutch. In this
piece, too, he remonstrated against tlie bad
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Poetry examples for “set on”
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Read full poem →The sacred Laurel, hence are all these teares?
Must therefore all the World be set on flame,
Because a Gazet writer mist his aim?
Read full poem →And what a reception:
Red jade cups, food well set on a blue jewelled table,
And I was drunk, and had no thought of returning.
Read full poem →specially now you're gettin' on a bit in years, and may be you'd
settle down quietly after that. Or if you ain't reg'lar set on
_'im_, why not giv' up this suffrage business and live a bit with me
Read full poem →The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!—
Read full poem →A fearful hope was all the World contained;
Forests were set on fire--but hour by hour
They fell and faded--and the crackling trunks
Read full poem →A fearful hope was all the World contained;
Forests were set on fire--but hour by hour
They fell and faded--and the crackling trunks 20
Read full poem →Who perhaps to the summit of science could soar,
Yet content ‘if the table he set on a roar’; 160
Whose talents to fill any station were fit,
Read full poem →Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes,
Come to yo' pappy an' set on his knee.
What you been doin', suh -- makin' san' pies?
Read full poem →shaftes withoute heedes, untill they occupyed them, and
than set on an heade as it apereth in Homer the. xxi. booke
Odysseiy where Penelope brought Ulixes bowe downe