Read full poem →I hear the Florentine, who from his palace
Wheels out his battle-bell with dreadful din,
Dictionary Entry
A biscuit consisting mostly of nuts and preserved fruit, usually coated with chocolate on one side.
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Poetry examples for “florentine”
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Read full poem →The Tuscan father’s comedy divine ;
Then, not unequal to the Florentine,
The Southern Scott, the minstrel who called forth
Read full poem →Driving his pampered jades, and more than these,
The seven-fold vision of the Florentine,
And grave-browed Milton’s solemn harmonies.
Read full poem →Ay! perchance had seen the heavens opening,
as they opened to the Florentine.
Read full poem →Rather than trample under mine
That laurels of the Florentine,
And you shall see how the devil spends