Read full poem →O sweet, is thy body a tomb?
Nay, springs out of springs derive,
And summers from summers alive,
Dictionary Entry
To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “derive”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A something to survive,
Of you though it derive
Apparent earthly birth,
Read full poem →your lordship's most constant and diffusive goodness, from which we did
for many calm years derive a subsistence to ourselves, and protection to
the scene (now withered, and condemned, as we fear, to a long winter and
Read full poem →the title of Elah Gabalah. Hereafter a very notorious Roman
Emperor will institute this worship in Rome, and thence derive a
cognomen, Heliogabalus. I dare say you would like to take a peep
Read full poem →All, since the being of all things is he,
Yet are the trunks, which do to us derive
Things in proportion fit, by perspective
Read full poem →not to be baffled by any phraseology. If she can get a kernel out of
Wood M. Smithers, she will also derive strength from my rhyme.”
Read full poem →There is still a family of Telfers, residing near Langholm, who
pretend to derive their descent from the Telfers of the Dodhead.
Read full poem →By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And constant stars in them I read such art
