Read full poem →‘Lie down, lie down, young yeoman;
What use to rise and rise?
Rise man a thousand mornings
Dictionary Entry
(Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor.
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what know
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Poetry examples for “what”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →What flowers to-day may flower to-morrow,
But never as good as new.
Read full poem →Here we have a snowman, a snowman, a snowman!
Oh, where does he come from, and what shall be his name?
He says his name is no man, no man, no man!
Read full poem →— Ah, life, what is it but a fower?
Why must true lovers sigh?
Read full poem →Think I, the round world over,
What golden lads are low
With hurts not mine to mourn for
Read full poem →Home! Home, at last! Who’s there? Anyone there?
What? Nobody? No fire? Oh, bitter cold----
It feels like death!
Read full poem →Ah! And then one day he’d ’ad enough of comfort, and was off,--looking
for what? ’Ardship? He might have ’ad that ’ere if he’d but stayed.
Aye, that ’e could--for it’s been ’ard enough--with they two there. Ah,
Read full poem →An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad, drooping with your lot?
I too would be where I am not.
Read full poem →Ah, you sweet thing! Well, kiss your mother then!
But you mind what I say--no more snowmen
To-morrow!
Read full poem →Before the world is old.
What flowers to-day may flower to-morrow,
But never as good as new.