Read full poem →Loose to the wind their airy garments flew,
Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew,
Dipp'd in the richest tincture of the skies,
Dictionary Entry
Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
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Common Phrases
white filmyeyes filmyferns filmyveil filmylace filmyclouds filmy
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Poetry examples for “filmy”
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Read full poem →And down the mountains by the dark cloud kissed,
Like a strange shape in filmy veiling dressed,
Slid slowly, silently, the wraith-like mist,
Read full poem →About twelve by the moon-dial
One, more filmy than the rest
(A kind which, upon trial,
Read full poem →As if their tops had feebly given
A void within the filmy Heaven.
The waves have now a redder glow--
Read full poem →As if the turret-tops had given
A vacuum in the filmy heaven:
The waves have now a redder glow —
Read full poem →On.tangled shoals that bar the brook a crowd
Of filmy globes and rosy floating cloud:
So those Mermaidens crowded to my rock.
Read full poem →But not our filmy pinion
We scorch amid the blaze of day,