Read full poem →And I shall feel it as a serpent of fire,
Coiling and twisting in my belly.
His snortings will rise to my head,
Dictionary Entry
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. bellybutton bellybelly posteriorbelly white
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Poetry examples for “belly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →b. Have I not made thee an occasional captain ? ;
lline; thy pockets as well us thy belly? have I not taught
dull as thou art, to converse with and impost <su. -*■&-
Read full poem →I saw sad wrinkles and crevices. His face was tired pink putty. He was in
his undershirt, and his belly sagged, wrinkling his undershirt. The eyes
were no longer fierce. His eyes looked away and couldn’t meet mine.
Read full poem →A dog dost see, no spectre have we here;
He growls, doubts, lays him on his belly, too,
And wags his tail—as dogs are wont to do.
Read full poem →That so yon bawlers may not miss
To vote their own pot-belly'd bliss,'
All that is past!
Read full poem →He that would eat of love may bear away with him
Only what his belly can hold,
Nothing in the apron,
Read full poem →And in all changes that way bends thy will.
Nor let thy mountain belly make pretence
Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense.
Read full poem →_More haughty than the rest, the Wolfish race}
Appears with belly gaunt, and famished face; }
Never was so deformed a beast of grace. }
Read full poem →It waits for some dinner _5
To stuff out its own little belly.