Dictionary Entry
(plural swine) A pig (the animal).
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Poetry examples for “swine”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by,
When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine,
When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie;
Read full poem →The land, he understood, for miles about
Was till’d by women ;_ all the swine were sows, 190
And all the dogs ”—
Read full poem →When men were as beasts that bleed,
As sheep or as swine that wallow,
In the shambles of faith and of fear.
Read full poem →A careless word unsanctions sense;
But he who casts Heaven’s truth to swine
Consummates all incontinence.
Read full poem →Till ev’n the witless Gadarene,
Preferring Christ to swine, shall know
That life is sweetest when it’s clean.
Read full poem →Should take the laggard who would stretch his legs.
Forward! glad rush of Gergesenian swine;
You've gain'd the hill-top, but there's yet the brine.
Read full poem →You were light and a mocker! You should have been solemn,
And argued with monkeys and swine, speaking truthfully always.
Nay, truthful with whom, to what end? With a breed such as lived
Read full poem →Even at that, one hardly flings
Friends before swine.