Dictionary Entry

beguiling

To deceive or delude (using guile).

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Common Phrases

. beguilingsmile beguiling

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Poetry examples for “beguiling”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Send not on your soul before
To dive from that beguiling shore,
And let not yet the swimmer leave

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

[']Neath the forest tree
Wins the bird, beguiling,
To come down and see:

The last smile which answers to mine,
I do not believe it beguiling,[q]
Because it reminds me of thine;

Whose Image then was stamped upon her mind-- 160
But once beguiled--and ever more beguiling;
Dazzling, as that, oh! too transcendent vision

See the ruddy morning smiling,
Hear the grove to bliss beguiling;
Zephyrs through the woodland playing,

Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling,
Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling:—

Oh! the wind with soft beguiling
Would have stolen my thought away;

And still, perhaps, with faithless gleam,
Some other loiterer beguiling.

Where the leaze is smiling,
On and on beguiling
Crisply-cropping sheep;