Read full poem →With the foam of his waves more high. 110
For the sea-marks set to divide of old
The kingdoms to Ocean and Earth assigned,
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To begin something with determination; to commence a long and difficult task or project.
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Poetry examples for “set to”
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Read full poem →And stiperetidona, vainly feared ;
The relics false were set to view ;
Only the jewels there were true —
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half OldbyAnne Bradstreet
Read full poem →And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
But plants new set to be eradicate,
And buds new blown, to have so short a date,
Read full poem →Fetched in honey, milked the cows,
Aired and set to rights the house,
‘Kneaded cakes of whitest wheat,
Read full poem →Shall we no voluntary bars
Set to our drift? I, Sister of the Stars,
And Thou, my glorious, course-compelling Day!'
Read full poem →complicated harmonies, took special delight. Two odes, in particular,
have been humming in my ear all my life since, set to the tune of his
recitation:
Read full poem →Here was commons for their hills, where they seek for freedom still,
Though every common's gone and though traps are set to kill
The little homeless miners--O it turns my bosom chill
Read full poem →composition of a poem on La Cuisse Rompue^ which
he caused to be set to music and sung at his bed side.
Another incident was the dictation of a will, which
Read full poem →Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,
Read full poem →‘I am set to light the ground,
While the beetle goes his round: