Read full poem →I swear by all th' unpitying powers of Heaven, 70
No wilful crime this heavy vengeance bred;
In mutual innocence our lives we led:
Dictionary Entry
Intentional; deliberate.
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Common Phrases
murder wilfulmisconduct wilfulneglect wilfuldefault wilful. wilfulact wilfulwilful any
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Poetry examples for “wilful”
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Read full poem →I, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,
Have to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.
I, who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence
Read full poem →'Tisn't the way very likely to win. For the woman, they tell you,
Ever prefers the audacious, the wilful, the vehement hero;
She has no heart for the timid, the sensitive soul; and for knowledge,--
Read full poem →Through which our merit leads us to our meeds.
How wilful blind is he, then, that would stray,
And hath it in his powers to make his way!
Read full poem →This foolish zeal of lip for lip,
This fond, self-sanction’d, wilful zest,
Is that elect relationship
Read full poem →'For 'tis,' I said, 'all one,
The wilful faith, which has no joy or pain,
As if 'twere none.'
Read full poem →behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?
Read full poem →He is wilful, mutable,
Shy, untamed, inscrutable,
Read full poem →7 Should the guardian friend or mother
Tell the woes of wilful waste:
Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother,