Read full poem →Man’s life is death. Yet Christ endured to live,
Preaching and teaching, toiling to and fro,
Few men accepting what He yearned to give,
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masses toilingpeople toilingtoiling still
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Poetry examples for “toiling”
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Read full poem →I bustled through the years with axe and plow,
Toiling, denying myself, my wife, my sons, my daughters.
Squire Higbee wrongs me to say
Read full poem →One died in a jail,
One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife—
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Read full poem →The life of woman is full of woe?
Toiling on and on and on,
With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
Read full poem →Toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Read full poem →Toiling in the naked fields,
Where no bush a shelter yields,
Read full poem →Leap madding to the land affrighted from the flood;
O'erturns the toiling barch whose steersman does not launch,
And thrust the furrowing beak into her ravening paunch.
Read full poem →That toiling years would put within my grasp,
That I have sigh'd for : with so deadly gasp |
Read full poem →How glorious this affection for the cause
Of stedfast genius, toiling gallantly!
What when a stout unbending champion awes
Read full poem →In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain,
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain;
And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy,