Read full poem →Came night and day, and rooted in the fields,
And wallow’d in the gardens of the King.
And ever and anon the wolf would steal
Dictionary Entry
An instance of wallowing.
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. wallowaround wallowwallow buffalowallow bear
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Poetry examples for “wallow”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When men were as beasts that bleed,
As sheep or as swine that wallow,
In the shambles of faith and of fear.
Read full poem →Hub of the wheel, the stirrer-up of strife,
As caught by Dante in the last wallow of hell--
The headless trunk “that made its head a lamp.”
Read full poem →They’re left the whitening stanes amang,
In gasping death to wallow.
Read full poem →The wild Scandinavian boar issued forth
To wanton in carnage and wallow in gore:
O’er countries and kingdoms their fury prevail’d,
Read full poem →In poortith I might mak a fen;
What care I in riches to wallow,
If I maunna marry Tam Glen!
Read full poem →No longer the warfare ungodly would wage;
A high Ruling Elder to wallow in wine;
He left the foul business to folks less divine.
Read full poem →I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth.