Dictionary Entry

bodies

Physical frame.

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Common Phrases

. bodiesbodies twobodies deadbodies heavenly

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Poetry examples for “bodies”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

NEAR THIS PLACE LIE THE BODIES OF
JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW,

Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight,
Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light.
Loose to the wind their airy garments flew,

Is it the dirt, the squalor,
the wear of human bodies,
and the dead faces of our neighbours?

On the velvet coverlet lie two bodies, stripped and fair in the cold,
grey air. Drip--hiss--fall the blood-drops, for the bleeding never stops.

Should of their torment straightway be released.
So with shrunk bodies and with heads down-dropt,
Stretched on the steps, and at the pillars propt,

Flashed flickering forth fantastic flies,
Big bees their burly bodies swung,
Rooks roused with civic din the elms,

Apt to thy mistress, but more apt to me.
Who that our bodies were comprest bewrayed?
Whence knows Corinna that with thee I played?

Yea, let my foes sleep in an empty bed,
And in the midst their bodies largely spread:
But may soft[290] love rouse up my drowsy eyes,

We cheated school to have our fling at tops?
What days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed with
joy

We cheated school to have our fling at tops?
What days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed with joy
Feasting upon blackberries in the copse?