Read full poem →The glorious fault of angels and of gods:
Thence to their images on earth it flows,
And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows.
Dictionary Entry
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “flows”
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Read full poem →Which nor to guilt nor fear its caution owes,
And boasts a warmth that from no passion flows.
A face untaught to feign; a judging eye,
Read full poem →measurable sea,
Sway’d by vaster ebbs and flows than can be known
Read full poem →Love, while the sweet thing laughs and lies,
And sleep flows out and in,
Sees perfect in them Paradise.
Read full poem →And long soft arrows flown from under them
As from bows bent. Desire flows out of her
As out of lips doth speech: and over her
Read full poem →Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Read full poem →The golden tide of opportunity
Flows wafting-in friendships and better,—I
Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore.
Read full poem →imitate \ however largely he was supplied with classic streams, from his
own urn all flows pure and untinctured. Here the two friends change
places : Beaumont rises in merit towards Shakespeare, and Fletcher de*
Read full poem →Where for ever and ever and ever
It flows to no sea.