Read full poem →Fixed in an onyx setting. Fireflies
Flicker their lanterns in my dazzled eyes.
In serried rows I guess the straight, stiff stems
Dictionary Entry
To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
In a Sentence
“Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. dazzledeyes dazzled
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Poetry examples for “dazzled”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For first, religion ti-ught him right,
And dazzled not, but cleared his sight.
Sometioies, resolved, hia sword he draws,
Read full poem →For first, religion taught him right,
And dazzled not, but cleared his sight.
Sometimes, resolved, his sword he draws,
Read full poem →into a nobler and fiercer flame of poetry than was ever yet kindled in the bright invigorating
climes of France and modern Italy; insomuch, tliat a Gallic and Italian eye is dazzled and
offended at the brightness of the noblest expressions of Milton, and th&autnors above-mei^
Read full poem →And every roadside atom is a spark,
The dazzled sense, that used was to the dark,
May well doubt, 'Is't the safe way and the same
Read full poem →The desert of Egypt shimmers in the gleam
Of the noonday sun on my dazzled sight.
And a giant negro as black as night
Read full poem →And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
From having looked too long upon the sun.
Read full poem →No Trace -- no Figment of the Thing
That dazzled, Yesterday,
No Ring -- no Marvel --
Read full poem →Nothing heard but yonder mill:
While the dazzled eye surveys
All around a liquid blaze;
Read full poem →Soft dimpled hands, white neck, and creamy breast,
Are things on which the dazzled senses rest
Till the fond, fixed eyes, forget they stare.