Read full poem →Above the vulgar flight of low desire?
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of angels and of gods:
Dictionary Entry
To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation
In a Sentence
“to sprain one's ankle”
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sprung”
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Read full poem →There is a god about me like as fire,
Sprung whence, who knoweth, or who hath heart to say?
A god more strong than whom slain beasts can soothe,
Read full poem →We guessed not, nor what thing could be its name.
From each to each had sprung those sparks which flew
Together into fire. But we knew
Read full poem →cellencics of our old English poets naturally ask : 1 . How came the British muse in the very
infancy of literature, when but just sprung from the dark womb of monkish superstition, to
rise at once to such maturity, as she aid in Spenser, Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Jon-
Read full poem →poetic diction. The British drama which before Jonson received only
some little improvement from the models of Greece and Rome, but sprung
chiefly from tneir own moralities, and religious farces; and had a birth ex-
Read full poem →Mr. Cibber, “ the flat cieling, that is. now over the
“orchestra, was then a semi-oval arch, that sprung
“ fifteen feet higher from above the cornice. The
Read full poem →Hail, Eve and Adam, source of death and shame!
New life has sprung from death, and Jesu’s Name
Clothes you with fame.
Read full poem →Saying, "Why sadly tread'st my banks upon,
Ilia sprung from IdÊan Laomedon?
Where's thy attire? why wanderest here alone?
Read full poem →And term'st[218] my works fruits of an idle quill?
Or that unlike the line from whence I sprung[219]
War's dusty honours are refused being young?
Read full poem →Declare affections nobly fix’d,
And impulse sprung from due degrees
Of sense and spirit sweetly mix’d.