Read full poem →Behind the veil, forbidden,
Shut up from sight,
Love, is there sorrow hidden,
Dictionary Entry
To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
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Poetry examples for “shut up”
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Read full poem →That's why I'll never have a child,
Never shut up a chrysalis in a match-box
For the moth to spoil and crush its bright colours,
Read full poem →Dearest Miss Roper,--Alas! we are all at Florence quite safe, and
You, we hear, are shut up! indeed, it is sadly distressing!
We were most lucky, they say, to get off when we did from the troubles.
Read full poem →“God damn you, shut up!” I told him.
Read full poem →Of going wild, as we hear tell
Of people shut up in a cell,
With no one there to talk to. He
Read full poem →Then sighing softly sore, and inly deepe,
She shut up all her plaint in privy griefe
For her great courage would not let her
Read full poem →That's why I'll never have a child,
Never shut up a chrysalis in a match-box
For the moth to spoil and crush its bright colours,
Read full poem →Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold
And shut up green and open into gold.
Farewell to poesy--and leave the will;
Read full poem →----With whose tumultuous waves,
Shut up in narrower bounds, the Higre wildly raves,
And frights the straggling flocks the neighbouring shores to fly.