Read full poem →From fields and men we know by heart,
From strangers' faces, strangers' lands,-
Hand, you have held true fellows' hands.
Dictionary Entry
The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area.
In a Sentence
“That girl has a pretty face.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. facesfaces twofaces newfaces many
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “faces”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For all the sloping pasture murmur’d sown 55
With happy faces and with holiday.
There moved the multitude, a thousand heads :
Read full poem →The burden of dead faces. Out of sight
And out of love, beyond the reach of hands,
Read full poem →Their garment of soft shame,
And weeping faces of the wearied loves
That swoon in sleep and awake wearier,
Read full poem →There was no sound but long tears following
Long tears upon men's faces, waxen white
With extreme sad delight.
Read full poem →And with weeping of eyes,
But with shame of stricken faces
And with strewing of dust,
Read full poem →Full of the stately repose and the lordly delight of the dead,
Where the fortunate islands are lit with the light of ineffable faces,
And the sound of a sea without wind is about them, and sunset is
Read full poem →The end is come of pleasant places,
The end of tender words and faces,
The end of all, the poppied sleep.
Read full poem →What love scarce lives and hears:
We have seen on fervent faces
The pallor of strange tears:
Read full poem →And the shining of eyes,
For the painting of faces
And the sundering of trust,