Read full poem →The shires have seen it plain,
From north and south the sign returns
And beacons burn again.
Dictionary Entry
One of the four major compass points, specifically 180°, directed toward the South Pole, and conventionally downwards on a map, abbreviated as S.
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Common Phrases
africa south. southcarolina southamerica southafrican southwales southsouth newsouth miles
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Poetry examples for “south”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To south the headstones cluster,
The sunny mounds lie thick;
Read full poem →Proud look’d the lips: but while I meditated 95
A wind arose and rush’d upon the South,
Read full poem →At eight years old ; and still from time to time
Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, 35
' And of her brethren, youths of puissance ;
Read full poem →“cursed” for the terrible wound that it inflicts. or nonpentin’ biel
22. isles of palm, the South Sea Islands.
She Agincousl a famous battle (1415), in which Henry V. defeated the
Read full poem →And storm's glad voice was he:
South-wester or north-easter,
Thy winds rejoice the sea.
Read full poem →O swallow, sister, O fair swift swallow,
Why wilt thou fly after spring to the south,
The soft south whither thine heart is set?
Read full poem →As thy day rose,
They arose up and girded them to the north and south,
By seas, by snows.
Read full poem →Looked full on the north as it yearned,
And the north was more than the south.