Read full poem →Jaspar--why don’t ’e answer? There, now there!
Have that to warm yer. Oh, ye’ll soon come round,
Ye’ve starved yerself, ye--! Ah--she’s dead, she’s dead!
Dictionary Entry
Address a single person by the use of the pronoun ye instead of thou.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. yeknow ye
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Poetry examples for “ye”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Alas, how changed! with this same sermon-mien,
The filthy _What-d'ye-call-it_[71]--I have seen.
Ah, royal Princess! for whose sake I lost
Read full poem →Yet swinken nat sans secresie.
Thilke moral shall ye understond,
From schoole-boy's tale of fayre Irelond:
Read full poem →And loved his country--but what's that to you? 40
Those strange examples ne'er were made to fit ye,
But the kind cuckold might instruct the city:
Read full poem →Why bade ye else, ye Powers! her soul aspire
Above the vulgar flight of low desire?
Read full poem →There all men may be cured, whene'er they please,
Would ye be blest? despise low joys, low gains; }
Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains; }
Read full poem →Thy fools no more I'll tease:
This year in peace, ye critics, dwell,
Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
Read full poem →7 'Athenian queen! and sober charms!
I tell ye, fool, there's nothing in't:
'Tis Venus, Venus gives these arms;[67]
Read full poem →Ye Nymphs of Solyma! begin the song:
To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong.
Read full poem →Descend, ye Nine! descend and sing;
The breathing instruments inspire,