Read full poem →100-101. Before the crescent moon became full.
106. Bastion’d, fortified with ramparts.
Dictionary Entry
The figure of the moon as it appears in its first or last quarter, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
Origin
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Common Phrases
moon crescent. crescentcity crescentshape crescentcrescent fertilecrescent redcrescent royalcrescent park
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Poetry examples for “crescent”
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Read full poem →We dropt with evening on a rustic town
Set in a gleaming river’s crescent-curve,
Close at the boundary of the liberties ; 170
Read full poem →Dividing my delight and my desire,
The crescent life and love the plenilune,
Love me though dusk begin and dark retire;
Read full poem →Still the same planet, tho' not fill'd so soon,
A two-hom'd crescent then, now one full-moon.
Joint JjOvt before, now Honour doth provoke;
Read full poem →The leisured buzzard floats upon the breeze,
Riding a crescent cloud for endless hours,
The sea beats softly on the emerald strands—
Read full poem →And as the full-moon, spectral, lies
Within the crescent’s gleaming arms,
The present shows her heedless eyes
Read full poem →And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a duplicate horn--
Read full poem →So you smiled till the lines of your mouth
A crescent became with dimples for horns, so expressing
To centuries after who see you in marble: Behold me,
Read full poem →Around an altar, oracle, cross
Or a crescent moon.
Around a face, a thought, a star