Read full poem →Delight, the rootless flower,
And love, the bloomless bower;
Delight that lives an hour,
Dictionary Entry
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. boweranchor boweret bowerbower bestbower tree
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Poetry examples for “bower”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →With leaves that lure the doves
From bud to bower?
Read full poem →And the underwood is green,
And from bower unto bower
The songs of the birds begin,
Read full poem →Fondest of dreams and cloudiest of clouds.
Well I remember, in our marriage bower,
How in the dewiest balminess of rest,
Read full poem →Fondest of dreams and cloudiest of clouds.
Well I remember, in our marriage bower,
How in the dewiest balminess of rest,
Read full poem →Went snuffing round my garden bound,
Or crouched by my bower wall?
With a silken leash about his neck;
Read full poem →ser has her baser bower, F. out; but we might easily get
Read full poem →Lofty Lucretius shall live that hour,
That nature shall dissolve this earthly bower.
∆neas' war and Tityrus shall be read,
Read full poem →He look'd her Head.
Towards their bower
Together as they went,