Read full poem →Oh, why did you come here, oh, snowman, oh, snowman?
And will you now a friend be, or will you be a foe?
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Reason
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“A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.”
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why reasonwhy explainwhy reasonswhy knowwhy understandwhy see
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Poetry examples for “why”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →— Ah, life, what is it but a fower?
Why must true lovers sigh?
Read full poem →Jaspar come back--Jaspar come home again----
Jaspar--why don’t ’e answer? There, now there!
Have that to warm yer. Oh, ye’ll soon come round,
Read full poem →you may look at ’em, they ’aven’t known trouble--yet they was with me
all the time. Why, there’ve been days when I’ve not ’ad enough to eat
myself. And what ’ave fed me? Just to ’ear ’em laugh and think they
Read full poem →There, in the windless night-time,
The wanderer, marvelling why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
Read full poem →Oh, look in my eyes then, can you doubt?
es Why, tis a mile from town.
Read full poem →Oh, look in my eyes, then, can you doubt?
-Why, 'tis a mile from town.
How green the grass is all about!
Read full poem →"Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest?
'Tis that every mother's son
Read full poem →She heard and went and knew not why;
Her heart to his she laid;
Read full poem →Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly:
Why should men make haste to die?
Empty heads and tongues a-talking