Read full poem →O first-born sons of hope and fairest, ye
Whose prows first clove the thought-unsounded sea
Whence all the dark dead centuries rose to bar
Dictionary Entry
A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
Origin
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Common Phrases
garlic cloveoil clovehitch clove. clovetrees clovetree cloveclove garlicclove large
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Poetry examples for “clove”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He touched, and killed the past,
And clove its bands.
Read full poem →Flight in vast spaces
Clove the inane,
While we stood tearless,
Read full poem →O' the sword, but open-breasted drove,
Cleaving till out the truth he clove.