Read full poem →As a lover's that kindle with kissing, and earth, with her raiment
and tresses yet wasted and torn,
Takes breath as she smiles in the grasp of thy passion to feel
Dictionary Entry
To devastate, destroy
Origin
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Common Phrases
. wastedtime wastedaway wasted
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “wasted”
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Read full poem →Shall never know the upshot. Ours to be
Wasted with longing, shattered in the throes,
The agonies of splendid dreams, which day
Read full poem →experience or a lew years only, must recollect how much of
' is time lias been wasted in unprofitable toil when he only
Might amusement, in wailing through volumes lo be at last
Read full poem →eighty investigations have been made, over two
million dollars have been wasted, and the one re-
sult has been to prove that it was the cleanest
Read full poem →The love of years
Is wasted like the snow,
And the fine fibrils of its life
Read full poem →Not in that wasted garden
Where bodies are drawn into grass
Read full poem →By this spent sun of August. And the moon
Lies dead and wasted there beyond Starved Rock.
The moon was beautiful last night! To walk
Read full poem →Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,
Your love was not all in vain.
Read full poem →Is just a province. And it's past the time
When we should be ourselves, we've wasted time,
And grafted alien things upon our bole.
Read full poem →Patriarchs withered with age and nuns ascetical white;
And one who wasted her virgin wealth in a riot of joy.
Brothers and sisters at last in a quiet and purple pall,