Read full poem →To these sweet poets of the summer fields;
Me much delighting as I stroll along
The narrow path that hay laid meadow yields,
Dictionary Entry
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
In a Sentence
“A beautiful landscape delights the eye.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
customers delightingdelighting while
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Poetry examples for “delighting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Doth set and sing my pain;
And, by delighting many, frees again
Grief, which verse did restrain.
Read full poem →house called Mountown, near Dublin, to which King frequently retired;
delighting to neglect his interest, forget his cares, and desert his
duty.
Read full poem →Vain raptures all--For your inferiour natures,
Form'd to delight, and happy by delighting,
Heav'n has reserv'd no future paradise,
Read full poem →For ever flutter o'er her lyre,
Delighting, as the youth draws nigh,
To point the glances of her eye,
Read full poem →For ever flutter o'er her lyre,
Delighting, as the youth draws nigh,
To point the glances of her eye,
Read full poem →For ever flutter o'er her lyre,
Delighting, as the youth draws nigh,
To point the glances of her eye,
Read full poem →Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting Heaven
That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,