Read full poem →One went before, one after, but so fast
They seem gone hence together, from the shore
Whence we now gaze: yet ere the mightier passed
Dictionary Entry
hence
Part of SpeechadverbPronunciation/ˈhɛns/Word FrequencyNot availableCurriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature ↓From here, from this place, away
In a Sentence
“Get thee hence, Satan!”
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Poetry examples for “hence”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The Genius of the house do bind.
Hence they successes seem to know,
And in their Lord's advancement grow;
Read full poem →Where ever, ever stay, and go not thence,
Till nature's sad decree shall call thee hence;
Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone,
Read full poem →And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Read full poem →For thy predestination I'll contrive,
That three years hence, if I survive,
I'll build a spittle, or mend common ways,
Read full poem →This is her tolerable Tropique clime.
Fair eyes, who asks more heat than comes from hence,
He in a fever wishes pestilence.
Read full poem →The saint ascending to his native skies;
From hence the prophet wing'd his rapt'rous way
To the blest mansions in eternal day.
Read full poem →I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
Read full poem →precious, precious blood;
Which holding in trust for me, faithfully back again give me, many a year hence,
In unseen essence and odor of surface and grass, centuries hence;
