Read full poem →With this conceit, Philosophy stalks frail
As peacock staggering underneath his tail.
Who judge of Plays from their own penny gaff,
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Poetry examples for “staggering”
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Read full poem →Then do you remember:
That staggering up from the wreck of defeat,
And the wreck of a ruined career,
Read full poem →He reels on warily along the street,
Slabbering at mouth and with a staggering stoop
Mutters an angry look at all he meets.
Read full poem →Even then beneath the weltering waters bear _15
The staggering ship--they suddenly appear,
On yellow wings rushing athwart the sky,
Read full poem →We'll remember at Aix"--for one heard the quick wheeze
Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees,
And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank,
Read full poem →We'll remember at Aix"--for one heard the quick wheeze
Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees,
And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank,
Read full poem →We'll remember at Aix"--for one heard the quick wheeze
Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees,
And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, 35
Read full poem →Just like a cadger's whip,
Then staggering and swaggering
He roar'd this ditty up--
Read full poem →Turning his head swiftly, the youth saw his friend running in
a staggering and stumbling way toward a little clump of bushes.
His heart seemed to wrench itself almost free from his body at
Read full poem →A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten at foot of castle wall.