Read full poem →Behold, four Kings in majesty revered,
With hoary whiskers and a forky beard;
And four fair Queens, whose hands sustain a flower,
Dictionary Entry
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
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Common Phrases
. beardbeard whitebeard blackbeard longbeard red
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Poetry examples for “beard”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And paw’d his beard, and mutter’d, “catalepsy.” 20
My mother pitying made a thousand prayers ;
Read full poem →The wind he listened to in the cornsilk and the tassels,
the wind that combed his red beard zero mornings
when the snow lay white on the yellow ears in the
Read full poem →at me. Somebody opened a door and I climbed out and walked toward
him. His hair was pure white and long and his beard was pure white and
long, and as I got closer I saw that his eyes were brilliant, like blue lights
Read full poem →A beard into the velvet hood
Read full poem →At will I Behold him, how Hell's reek
Has crisped his beard and singed his cheek.^
Read full poem →The white streaks gathering clear to view
In the burnt beard the women knew.
Read full poem →You saw me only as a run-down man
With matted hair and beard
And ragged clothes.
Read full poem →An aged Sire,[*] in long blacke weedes yclad,
His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray 255
And by his belt his booke he hanging had;