Dictionary Entry
An emphatic form of where.
In a Sentence
“Wherever have you been all my life?”
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Poetry examples for “wherever”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Farewell the vineyard! for I, where I but guess her, must go;
Weariness welcome, and labour, wherever it be, if at last it
Bring me in mountain or plain into the sight of my love.
Read full poem →Inly secure in the strength of invisible arms up above me;
Still, wheresoever I swing, wherever to shore, or to shelf, or
Floor of cavern untrodden, shell sprinkled, enchanting, I know I
Read full poem →Over hamlets, over halls,
Wherever they may be—
O’er the strange woods—o’er the sea—
Read full poem →In Peoria first, and later in Chicago,
Denver, Frisco, New York, wherever I lived
How I happened to lead the life,
Read full poem →And whether you ever took it or not,
My, boy, wherever you are,
Work for your soul’s sake,
Read full poem →Why should they not hate you? Why should you not follow your light?
But wherever they drove you, you climbed to a place more satiric.
Did France bar her door? Geneva remained--good enough!
Read full poem →I sent your mother to St. Mary's, sent
The rest of them wherever they desired.
And that's what every father owes his children.
Read full poem →So Mary told me. Then he went around
From place to place, wherever in the village
He thought to find me.