Read full poem →Nor the fever nothing cures:
Throb of drum and timbal's rattle
Call but man alive to battle,
Dictionary Entry
A beating, vibration or palpitation.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. throbthrob heartthrob dullthrob steadythrob great
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Poetry examples for “throb”
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Read full poem →And I feel as with shiver and sob
The triumphant heart in her throb,
The dead petals dilate into blossom,
Read full poem →In the small, gilded room, near the stair?
My ears rack and throb with his cry,
And his eyes goggle under his hair,
Read full poem →And on all sides we feel the great world's heart;
The pulse and throb of life which makes us men!
Read full poem →My heart of all that soothes its pain
The mournful hope that every throb
Will make it break for thee!
Read full poem →That generous heart where genius thrill'd divine,
Hath spent its last most glorious throb for thee—
Then sank amid the storm that made thy children free!
Read full poem →O little hearts! that throb and beat
With such impatient, feverish heat,
Read full poem →Because my heart would throb less painful there,
Read full poem →And wash my wound in the snows; that would be healing;
Because my heart would throb less painful there,
Read full poem →limited to an exclusive mood; he writes caressingly of little black
prostitutes in Harlem; his cabaret songs throb with the true jazz
rhythm; his sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries