Read full poem →A wretched Sylph too fondly interposed;
Fate urged the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain,
(But airy substance soon unites again)
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. twainwrote twaintwain mark
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Poetry examples for “twain”
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Read full poem →Is rent now in twain by the strength of his hand
Who stirs up the storm of his sons overbold
Read full poem →"Yea, now, do I bid you love me, love?
Love me or loathe, we are one not twain.
But God be praised in his heaven above
Read full poem →Whatever comes with years.
We twain shall not remeasure
The ways that left us twain;
Read full poem →For these are as ghosts that wane,
That are gone in an age or twain;
Harsh, merciful, passionate, pure,
Read full poem →You twain the same swift year of manhood swept
Down the steep darkness, and our father wept.
Read full poem →You twain fate spared not half your fiery span;
The longer date fulfils the lesser man.
Read full poem →Southward they both their course did bend,
And seasons twain they there did spend,
Till after blown by southern gales,
Read full poem →Externally, internally I trust
Most like to thee, the better of the twain.
Is born of us, and therefore is not pure—
Read full poem →ocean,
There with a runnel beside, and pine-trees twain before it,
There with the road underneath, and in sight of coaches and steamers,