Read full poem →And now you burst (ah, cruel!) from my arms;
And swiftly shoot along the Mall,
Or softly glide by the canal,
Dictionary Entry
In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “swiftly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →7 Melancholy smooth Maeander,
Swiftly purling in a round,
On thy margin lovers wander,
Read full poem →Nevertheless, and continues the dream and fancy, while forward
Swiftly, remorseless, the car presses on, he knows not whither.
Handsome who handsome is, who handsome does is more so;
Read full poem →to tell.
‘‘Away, thou gallant ship!’ I’d ery, ‘‘and bear me swiftly
on;
Read full poem →And flung them in the current, and their blood
Flows silently and swiftly, running deep;
And their two hearts beat like the rhythmic chimes
Read full poem →So the morning star mounted up very swiftly, and
then there came a peep of daybreak, and the birds
Read full poem →To comun profit, and thou shalt nat misse
To comen swiftly to that place dere,
That ful of blisse is and of soules clere.
Read full poem →Alcides thus his race began,
O'er infancy he swiftly ran;
The future God at first was more than man:
Read full poem →When these enchanted portals open wide,
And through the light the horsemen swiftly glide,
The Poet's eye can reach those golden halls,
Read full poem →Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell,
Thine ear, and find thy gentle heart; so well
