Read full poem →On me thou lookest with no doubting care,
As on a bee shut in a crystalline;
Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love’s divine,
Dictionary Entry
To confine.
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“We need to shut the dog in so he doesn't escape.”
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Poetry examples for “shut in”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Let the world’s sharpness like a clasping knife
Shut in upon itself and do no harm
In this close hand of Love, now soft and warm,
Read full poem →An evening light
Soon shut in night;
A strong distemper, and a weak relief,
Read full poem →What though, for showing truth to flatter'd state
Kind Hunt was shut in prison, yet has he,
In his immortal spirit, been as free
Read full poem →Too long shut in strait and few,
Thinly dieted on dew,
Read full poem →All the tumult, and quenched it with quiet, and holy behest,
Till the rapture was shut in itself, and the earth sank to rest.
Anon at the dawn, all that trouble had withered from earth-- 325
Read full poem →She never tended anything herself.
She was 'shut in' for life. She lived her whole
Life long in bed, and wrote her things in bed.