Citations:ken

English citations of ken

• (English verb)
  • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

    and he kenned

    In the beautiful lady the child of his friend !

  • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLI, lines 21-22

    But here in London streets I ken

    No such helpmates

• (English noun)
  • 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 9-10

    Then felt I like some watcher of the skies

    When a new planet swims into his ken;

  • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, VII

    I have seen phantoms there that were as men

    And men that were as phantoms flit and roam;

    Marked shapes that were not living to my ken,