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A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a tra
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Poetry examples for “flute”
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Read full poem →The neighbour sits in his window and plays the flute.
From my bed I can hear him,
Read full poem →So light their touch the grasses scarcely sway
As they the measure tread to the lilting flute.
Alas! 't is only Fancy thus adorns.
Read full poem →The one who remained was the absinthe lady. Guzzling
down his wine, Goosey fondled his flute again.
Read full poem →Than this better the reed never turned flute,
Better than this no song,
Read full poem →Where multitudes go hurrying by, you stand
With eyeless sockets playing on a flute.
And an old woman holds the cup for you,
Read full poem →For the gardens at Jo-run are full of new nightingales,
Their sound is mixed in this flute,
Their voice is in the twelve pipes here.
Read full poem →While organs yet were mute,
Timotheus, to his breathing flute
And sounding lyre,
Read full poem →Rural voices all are mute,
Tuneless lie the pipe and flute:
Shepherds, with their panting sheep,
Read full poem →While organs yet were mute,
Timotheus, to his breathing flute
And sounding lyre,