Read full poem →The midnight phantoms feel the spell,
The shadows sweep away.
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To remove something by, or as if by, sweeping.
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Poetry examples for “sweep away”
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Read full poem →(_They sweep away. Organ and Gregorian Chant._)
Read full poem →Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—-
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.