Read full poem →Mother too fierce of dear desires!
Turn, turn to willing hearts your wanton fires,
To Number Five direct your doves,
Dictionary Entry
A pampered or coddled person.
Origin
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Common Phrases
destruction wantoncruelty wanton. wantondisregard wantonwaste wantonact wanton
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Poetry examples for “wanton”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To lawless sylvans all access denied. 20
How oft the satyrs and the wanton fauns,
Who haunt the forests or frequent the lawns,
Read full poem →Here terrace sinks to terrace, arbors close
The ends of dreaming paths; a wanton wind
Jostles the half-ripe pears, and then, unkind,
Read full poem →Where heaping, sunny waves tumble and roll,
And seabirds scream in wanton happiness.
Read full poem →Yet this is She whose chaster Laws
The wanton Love shall one day fear,
And, under her command severe,
Read full poem →the pleasing ecstacies of youthful fancy, must bat/fc in Jiery floods. This
is peculiarly proper from a youth just snatched from revelry and wanton-
ness, to suffer the anguish and horror of a shameful death. But this
Read full poem →mismanagement, he alienated the affections of the
principal performers from him, and by wanton op-
pressions provoked them to attempt their deliverance
Read full poem →The wanton Ovid, whose enticing rimes
Read full poem →When Thebes, when Troy, when CÊsar should be writ,
Alone Corinna moves my wanton wit.
With Muse opposed, would I my lines had done,
Read full poem →Nor thy soft foot with his hard foot combine.
I have been wanton, therefore am perplexed,
And with mistrust of the like measure vexed.