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Long ungrown  The ivory was which, chiselled, robbed of ease  Pygmalion, sculptor-lover.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

It is in the scenes of vehement passion, of ardour and of agony, that we feel the comparative weakness of a yet ungrown hand, the tentative uncertain grasp of a stripling giant. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

To the latter kind of soul, grown or ungrown, you can never give happiness, for there are not enough toys to supply everybody.

From More Toasts by Mosher, Marion Dix

Though joy be done with and grief be vain, Time shall not sever us wholly in twain; Earth is not spoilt for a single shower; But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Up thro' the raw cold morn They trample and drag and swing; And my dreams are waving with ungrown corn In a far-off spring.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred