Read full poem →Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
If in the breast tumultuous joys arise,
Music her soft, assuasive voice applies;
Dictionary Entry
Characterized by loud, confused noise.
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years tumultuous. tumultuousapplause tumultuousperiod tumultuousevents tumultuousmanner tumultuous
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Poetry examples for “tumultuous”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Give me dreamless sleep, and loose night's power over me,
Shut my ears to sounds only tumultuous then,
Bid Fancy slumber, and steal away its potency,
Read full poem →Here, in this little Bay,
Full of tumultuous life and great repose,
Where, twice a day,
Read full poem →Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away
All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.
Like the moon's growth, his face gleams through his tune;
Read full poem →Dost thou than Venus seem less heavenly fair
When o'er the sea of love's tumultuous trance
Hovers thy smile, and mingles with thy glance
Read full poem →to the Jews; his pollution of the Holy of Holies; and his
miserable death at Taba, after a tumultuous reign of eleven
years, are circumstances of a prominent kind, and therefore more
Read full poem →Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea—
Some ocean throbbing far and free
Read full poem →“Very possible. Still I see nothing but a tumultuous mob of
idiots and madmen, who are busy in prostrating themselves before
Read full poem →Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea--
Some ocean throbbing far and free
Read full poem →Self-called George Sand! whose soul, amid the lions
Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance
And answers roar for roar, as spirits can: