Read full poem →They crossed in ships the sea,
They sought and found six feet of ground,
And there they died for me.
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Common Phrases
months sixyears sixweeks sixhundred sixfeet sixdays six
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Poetry examples for “six”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →While fish in streams, or birds delight in air,
Or in a coach-and-six the British fair,
As long as Atalantis shall be read,
Read full poem →“Take Lilia, then, for heroine,” clamor’d he,
“And make her some great Princess, six feet high,
Grand, epic, homicidal ; and be you
Read full poem →Damp smoke, rank mist fill the dark square;
and round the bend six bullocks come.
Read full poem →of the Council of Trade, and Secretary to
the Treasurers. He keeps six whores in
pay, and yet has got ^40,000.
Read full poem →You may return again; stay, let me see
Six weeks to-morrow you shall see me again;
Now you must go. Do you need money? here,
Read full poem →work will appear in monthly numbers, at the moderate pria
«>f One Shilling each, and six of such numbers will form j
volume, to be ornamented with an elegant Engraving, illus
Read full poem →water, and not with wine. Gi’ me my bucket there,
hoa. God b’ wi’ you, sir, it’s six o’clock : I should
ha’ carried two turns by this. What hoa! my stop-
Read full poem →Well, he owes me forty shillings, my wife lent him
out of her purse bv six-pence a time, besides his
lodging; I would I had it. I shall ha’ it, he says,
Read full poem →It makes the father less to rue.
At six months’ end, she parted hence,
With safety of her innocence;