Read full poem →Take flight and fly;
She sees by formless gleams,
She hears across cold streams,
Dictionary Entry
Without form; shapeless.
In a Sentence
“1985: Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. — Genesis 1:2 (New Jerusalem Bible)”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “formless”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sort them apart and live them. Sifted dust
Covers the formless heap. Reprieves, delays,
There are none, ever. As a monk who prays
Read full poem →Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Read full poem →Rain, and the darkness
Fearful and formless;
Day dawns and thou art not!
Read full poem →With duller steel than the Persean sword
They cut away no formless monster's head,
But one, whose gentleness did well accord
Read full poem →But still the elements o’ sang,
In formless jumble, right an’ wrang,
Wild floated in my brain;
Read full poem →Between the dusk and light-time,
And fear at last is formless,
We call the allurement Peace.