Read full poem →which the cavalry perceiving, could not be contained, but issuing
also out of the camp, confusedly and in disorder, spurred up to
the enemy. ‘The first who came up were defeated, the rest were
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Poetry examples for “spurred”
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Read full poem →The object of his passion most would hear ;
So does expectance keep her wild feet spurred
Toward that which ever is no more than near.
Read full poem →(_A_ BISHOP _in armor, booted and spurred, passes with
his train._)
Read full poem →Twelve little golden birds;
Anon he spurred his steed with a clang,
And there sat all the birds and sang.
Read full poem →Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Read full poem →Dashing along at the top of his speed,
Booted and spurred, on his jaded steed,
A courier comes with words of cheer.
Read full poem →Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Read full poem →The little strawy bents and nodding flowers,
There the huge thistle, spurred with many thorns,
The suncrackt upland's russet swells adorns.
Read full poem →It began, when a herd of us, picked and placed,
Were spurred through the Corso, stripped to the waist;
Jew brutes, with sweat and blood well spent
Read full poem →While families cuddle the joys of the fireside
When spurred by tale of dire lone agony.
A newspaper is a court