All 3 Uses of
ardent
in
Leaves of Grass
- Sometimes with One I Love Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love, But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another, (I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd, Yet out of that I have written these songs.†
Chpt 5
- How ardently for it!†
Chpt 32 *
- To Those Who've Fail'd To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast, To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead, To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships, To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear laurel-cover'd monument, High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time, Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire, Quench'd by an early death.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(ardent) showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love