Dictionary Entry

westward

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈwɛstwəd/Used In Literature ↓

The western region or countries; the west.

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. westwardmovement westwardexpansion westwardacross westwardwestward movedwestward movingwestward mileswestward way

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Poetry examples for “westward”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,

. With rue my heart is laden . . .
. Westward on the high-hilled plains .
. Far I hear the bugle blow

LIY. With rue my heart is laden . .
LY. Westward on the high-hilled plains
LVI. Far I hear the bugie blow. z =

The dark wind, stern and sublime and sad,
Swings the rollers to westward, clad
With lustrous shadow that lures the swimmer,

From uprising to downsetting of thy sun,
Risen from eastward, fallen to westward and forgotten,
And their springs are many, but their end is one.

South, east, and north, our skies were all blown bare,
But westward over glimmering holt and heath

The clearness then so marvellously increas'd,
The light'ning shining Westward from the East,
Is the great promised sign

Ye Clouds that on your endless journey go,
Ye Winds that westward flow,
Thou heaving Sea

Ye Clouds that on your endless journey go,
Ye Winds that westward flow,
Thou heaving Sea

And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind
Like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned
Of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes,