Read full poem →The velvet coverlet is sodden and wet, yet the roof beams are tight.
Overhead, the coronet gleams with its blackened gold, winking and blinking.
Among the rushes three corpses are growing cold.
Dictionary Entry
A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
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Poetry examples for “coronet”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The wide, state bed shivers beneath its velvet coverlet. Above, dim,
in the smoke, a tarnished coronet gleams dully. Overhead hammers and chinks
the rain. Fearfully wails the wind down distant corridors, and there comes
Read full poem →Under the moon like lees of wine.
A coronet done in a golden scroll,
And wheels which blunder and creak as they roll
Read full poem →" witty delicacy " of Marvell. " The Garden,"
" A Drop of Dew," and " The Coronet," all of
them full of earnest thought, are among the
Read full poem →raged the legitimate muses' of this latter age, than that which is owing to
your family; whose coronet shines bright with the native lustre of its own
jewels, which, with the access of some beams of Sidney, twisted with their
Read full poem →Your father would give lands for one
To wear his coronet.
Read full poem →Not rather choosing out some rosy day
From the rich coronet of the coming May,
When all things meet to marry!
Read full poem →On sentimental Queens and Lords in lace?
Without a star, a coronet or garter,
How can the piece expect or hope for quarter?
Read full poem →Allan, a bard is bound to swear
He ne'er saw coronet so fair.'
Then playfully the chaplet wild
