Read full poem →And crackling flames on all my honours prey.
But from my branching arms this infant bear,
Let some kind nurse supply a mother's care:
Dictionary Entry
To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “branching”
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Read full poem →Until, at last, two widening trunks disclosed
Thee singing on a spray of branching beech,
Hidden, then seen; and always that same song
Read full poem →As here admiring I survey*d
Walks hung with branching vine and many a verdant glade.
Read full poem →Under the shady roof
Of branching elm star-proof
Follow me. 90
Read full poem →Fell the bolt on the branching oak;
The rainbow of his hope was broke;
Read full poem →The yellowing fennel, run to seed
There, branching from the brickwork's cleft,
Some old tomb's ruin; yonder weed
Read full poem →I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig-tree in
the story.
Read full poem →So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense
These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof
Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells,