Dictionary Entry

wooing

To endeavor to gain someone's support.

Origin

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Common Phrases

. wooing

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Poetry examples for “wooing”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And east and west
They scour about the world a-wooing
The bullet in their breast.

Oh, 'tisn't manly, of course, 'tisn't manly, this method of wooing;
'Tisn't the way very likely to win. For the woman, they tell you,

But ye infinite brood of golden eagles nesting ever higher,
Wheeling ever higher, the sun-light wooing
Of lofty places of Thought,

I was disti-acted ; madly did I kiss
The wooing arms which held me, and did give
My eyes at once to death : but 'twas to live.

Into tlie winds : rain-scented eglantine
Gave temperate sweets to that well-wooing son ;
The lark was lost in him ; cold springs hs^ run

WITH THE LARK 90
WOOING, THE 55
WORN OUT 286

When musing deeply on the lot _55
Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing
All vital things that wake to bring

In excellence of savage pride,
Wooing the forest, open-eyed,
In the springtime,

10 Hey-Diddle-Diddle and Baby Bunting
11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go
12 The Fox Jumps over the Parson's Gate