Read full poem →) Vext with waste dreams? for saving I be join’d
'. To her that is the fairest under heaven,
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In other words; that is to say. Used to introduce a clarification or explanation
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Poetry examples for “that is”
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Read full poem →Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have made them a curse,
Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own;
And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse
Read full poem →The rest were pleasure, sorrow, sleep, and sin,
And loving-kindness, that is pity's kin
And is most pitiless.
Read full poem →encloses,
Pity, not love, that is born of the breath and decays with the
blood.
Read full poem →yields up his kingdom to May;
So time overcomes the regret that is born of delight as it passes
in passion away,
Read full poem →Shall this be a small thing in thine eyes,
That is greater in mine than the whole great sea?'
Read full poem →Her adorable head that arose;
As the sound of a God that is moved,
Her voice went forth upon Rome.
Read full poem →5. To produce poetry that is hard and clear, never blurred nor indefinite.
Read full poem →Oh, the grey garner that is full of half-grown apples,
Oh, the golden sparkles laid extinct--!
Read full poem →Long upward road that is leading me,
Light hearted I quit you,