Read full poem →To rend her hair; her hand is fill'd with leaves:
Where late was hair, the shooting leaves are seen
To rise, and shade her with a sudden green.
Dictionary Entry
To launch a projectile.
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Poetry examples for “shooting”
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Read full poem →upon the Thames from London Bridge to Westminster; some, as you tell me,
sir, they do now--playing at football, others shooting at pricks."--"The
Great Frost," 1608 (Arber's "English Garner," Vol. I.)
Read full poem →To tell men truth, yet keep them dark
And shooting still beside the mark,
God, as in jest, gave to their wish,
Read full poem →-peccable cravat directing being
shooting his cuffs
saluted everywhere saluting
Read full poem →When shepheards' grooms have leave to play,
I cast to go a shooting;
Long wand'ring up and down the land,
Read full poem →And my own shadow all my company;
And lonely see the shooting stars appear,
Worlds rushing into judgment all the year.
Read full poem →In circle round her shining throne 15
Shooting her beams like silver threads:
This, this is she alone,
Read full poem →So, to wait!----But what notes down the wind, hark! are driving?
'Tis he! 'tis their flag, shooting round by the trees!
--Let my turn, if it _will_ come, be swift in arriving!
Read full poem →A fretted wall of blue and grey;
Of shooting cliff and crumbled stone
With many a wild weed overgrown:
Read full poem →The groaning trees untimely shed their locks,
And shooting meteors caught the startled eye.