Read full poem →— Suppose I wound my arm right round —
‘Tis true, young man, ’tis true.’
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A term of endearment or address for a boy.
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Poetry examples for “young man”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Be kind, have pity, my own, my pretty, —
‘Good-bye, young man, good-bye.’
Read full poem →Begins to shrill and cry,
'O young man, O my slayer,
To-morrow you shall die.'
Read full poem →— Twill do no harm to take my arm.
‘You may, young man, you may.’
Read full poem →-'Twill do no harm to take my arm.
"You may, young man, you may."
Read full poem →The sergeant he did say,
'Young man, a soldier will you be
For thirteen pence a day?'
Read full poem →JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW,
AN INDUSTRIOUS YOUNG MAN,
AND VIRTUOUS MAIDEN OF THIS PARISH;
Read full poem →But when night comes and he plays his flute,
I think of him as a young man,
With gold seals hanging from his watch,