Read full poem →The trembling tree with sudden horror shook. 30
Lotis the nymph (if rural tales be true)
As from Priapus' lawless lust she flew,
Dictionary Entry
Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.
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Common Phrases
. talestales fairytales canterburytales folk
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Poetry examples for “tales”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Some frigid rhymes disburses:
They shall like Persian tales be read,
And glad both babes and nurses.
Read full poem →Than magic music, forfeits, all the rest.
But these—what kind of tales did men tell men,
She wonder’d, by themselves ?
Read full poem →Dived in a hoard of tales that dealt with knights,
Falf-legend, half-historic, counts and kings 30
Read full poem →Record shall tell men to the after-time
No wondrous tales of him, in him at last,
And in his seed increased and multiplied,
Read full poem →Addison’s Sir Roger de Coverley.
Andersen’s Fairy Tales.
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.
Read full poem →Do this, and soon thou shalt thy freedom reap. 40
On tell-tales' necks thou seest the link-knit chains,
The filthy prison faithless breasts restrains.
Read full poem →Friendship, Caleb, the Degenerate, a poetic drama, A White
Song And A Black One and Negro Tales. My unpub-
lished works are: Life’s Dawn And Dusk, poems, Caesar
Read full poem →Extremely honour’d and desired;
And sighs, ‘If those sweet tales be truths,
What bliss to be so much admired!’