Read full poem →Now you must come, or I go there,
Unless we are willing to live the flare
Of a lighted instant and have it gone."
Dictionary Entry
A sudden bright light.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. flareflare solarflare lensflare suddenflare red
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Poetry examples for “flare”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Where there is such a crying need for light;
Or will it flare up now, flame-clear and
bright,
Read full poem →I look at your pale hands--I look at your hair;
And I watch you use your hands, I watch the flare
Of thought in your eyes like light that interweaves
Read full poem →And drew her lips in his, and drew
Her soul out like a torch's flare.
Her breath came quick, her blood swirled round;
Read full poem →And wander like sad shadows till, at last,
Out of the flare of life,
Out of the whirl of years,
Read full poem →For, as the gusty wind did blow
The night-lamp's flare across her face,
She saw or seemed to see, but dreamed,
Read full poem →My wit and worth are cobwebs brushed aside
In the full flare of grief. Do what you will.”
Read full poem →The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!—
Read full poem →The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps’ flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.
Read full poem →Did her work o'er the wide earth frightfully:
The dreadful stench of her torches' flare,
Fed with human fat, polluted the air: