Read full poem →What am I saying? He is dead, my beautiful, strong man! I shall never
feel him caress me again. This is the only baby I shall have.
Oh, Holy Virgin, protect my baby! My little, helpless baby!
Dictionary Entry
An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. caresscaress gentlecaress soft
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Poetry examples for “caress”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Idly notes how the blossoms fade
In the sun's caress; then crosses where
The shadow shelters a carven chair.
Read full poem →Whom nothing succour can,
Until a heaven-caress'd and happier Eve
Be join'd with some glad Saint
Read full poem →Of withering white,
And did with gladdest hues my spirit caress,
Nothing of Heaven in thee showing infinite,
Read full poem →Surely the sweetest wreath of Fame
Shall, to your hope, my brows caress;
And if, by virtue of my choice
Read full poem →In gay, celestial beauty nothing coy,
And felt thy soft caress
With heretofore unknown reality of joy.
Read full poem →Me, to quite other custom life-inured,
Ah, loose from thy caress.
'Tis not to be endured!
Read full poem →Or ere the tongue of happiness
Be silenced by your soft caress,
Relate how, musing here of you,
Read full poem →Great bliss was with them, and great happiness
Grew, like a lusty flower in June's caress.
Read full poem →And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answered not with a caress--he died.
The crowd was famished by degrees; but two