Read full poem →Sea saps it, winds blow apart,
Sick and adrift and afloat,
The barren waif of a heart.
Dictionary Entry
Floating
In a Sentence
“A rubber duck and other toys were afloat in the bath.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “afloat”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Blooming as peaches pearled with dew,
Their golden windy hair afloat,
Love-music warbling in their throat,
Read full poem →The boat itself stirs only when I break
This drowse of heat and solitude afloat
To prove if what I see be bird or mote,
Read full poem →Unyielding in the pride of his defiance,
Afloat with none to serve or to command,
Lord of himself at last, and all by Science,
Read full poem →Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,
And breaking the golden lilies afloat
With the dragon-fly on the river.
Read full poem →Scoop'd from its trembling sisters of mid-sea,
Afloat, and pillowing up the majesty
Of Doris, and the Egean seer, her spouse-- 1010
Read full poem →A region desolate and wild.
Black, chafing water: and afloat,
And lonely as a truant child
Read full poem →Like one that hath been seven days drown’d
My body lay afloat:
But, swift as dreams, myself I found
Read full poem →Small and untraced, yet that will ever be
Somewhere afloat
Amid the spheres, as part of sick Life’s antidote.