Read full poem →Certainly he is odd, my dear Miss Roper. To change so
Suddenly, just for a whim, was not quite fair to the party,--
Not quite right. I declare, I really almost am offended:
Dictionary Entry
A fanciful impulse, or whimsical idea
Origin
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Common Phrases
. whimwhim merewhim personal
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Poetry examples for “whim”
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Read full poem →Put not at least, I pray you—nay, command—
Put not, when days come on, your own strange whim
And misconstruction of my idle words
Read full poem →(• fFhimsical as this classing of our Authors* plays must appear, it is surely more whim-
that Mr, Seward could not fold a place in cither class for those excellent comedies. The
Read full poem →And, pitying, long’d to plead his part;
But scarce could tell, so strange my whim,
Whether the weight upon my heart
Read full poem →How often flings for nought, and yokes
Her heart to an icicle or whim,
Whose each impatient word provokes
Read full poem →Of the evenings when you coo'd with him
And upset home for your sole whim,
You might have envied, were you wise,
Read full poem →But scarce knows how, if you love him,
Poor fellow. When 'tis woman's whim
To serve her husband night and day,
Read full poem →Who does not run when sent, nor come when Heaven calls;
But whether he serve God, or his own whim,
Not matters, in the end, to any one but him;
Read full poem →If Nature smiles -- the Mother must
I'm sure, at many a whim
Of Her eccentric Family --
Read full poem →accepted the Church to which they may belong. Circumstances and
whim have had more to do with their choice than reason and serious
conviction. Yet it is only by search that truth is to be found: