Read full poem →Comrade, look not on the west:
'Twill have the heart out of your breast;
'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far,
Dictionary Entry
Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
In a Sentence
“Tanya's breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
cancer breast. breastmilk breastfeeding breastpocket breast
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Poetry examples for “breast”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →JASPAR. Oh, you be alive! (_He sinks down broken, with his head on
her breast. She takes his head in her hands stroking it softly. The
Snowman moves slowly to the door, fades through it, and disappears_)
Read full poem →In a kinder bed I lay,
And the breast the darnel smothers
Rested once upon another’s
Read full poem →"Oh do you breathe, lad, that your breast
Seems not to rise and fall,
Read full poem →They cease not fighting, east and west,
On the marches of my breast.
Read full poem →In a kinder bed I lay,
And the breast the darnel smothers
Rested once upon another's
Read full poem →They scour about the world a-wooing
The bullet in their breast.
Read full poem →When morning broke 'twas blue:
Blue at my breast I fastened
The flower of sinner's rue.
Read full poem →Sigh'd her soft sorrow at St James's gate:
Such heavy thoughts lay brooding in her breast,
Not her own chairmen with more weight oppress'd: