Read full poem →From Jesse's root behold the branch arise,
Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies:
The ethereal Spirit o'er its leaves shall move,
Dictionary Entry
A pleasant smell or odour.
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Common Phrases
. fragrancefragrance sweetfragrance deliciousfragrance delicate
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Poetry examples for “fragrance”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.
Read full poem →Outspread about my fall.
They hold their fragrance still, a blood-red cone
Of memory.
Read full poem →O lily’s chaste perfume,
O fragrance that didst first unclose
The young Creation’s bloom!
Read full poem →Which their own leaves have made:
Men scent our fragrance on the air,
Yet take no heed
Read full poem →The year begins, though fair, to wane.
There is a fragrance in its breath
Which is not of the flowers, but death;
Read full poem →It might have grown into a beautiful sorrow—
Who knows?—filling my life with healing fragrance.
But I tortured it, I poisoned it
Read full poem →Forever, and forever lost from view,
But must again in fragrance rich as wine
The grey aisles of the air incarnadine
Read full poem →And in the mill there was a warm
And mealy fragrance of the past.
What else there was would only seem