Read full poem →Oh, what with these had I to do?
That germs of things above their kind
May live, pent up and close confined
Dictionary Entry
The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
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. germsgerms diseasegerms tooth
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Poetry examples for “germs”
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Read full poem →So will I render fruitful, blessing still
The germs and small beginnings in thy heart,
Because thy will cleaves to the better part.--
Read full poem →Had love in her yet struck its germs?
I watch’d. Her farewell show’d me plain
Read full poem →profound lawyer. If Howard was less brilliant than Poe, he was far
more studious; for even then the germs of waywardness were developing
in the nascent poet, and even then no inconsiderable portion of his
Read full poem →Still plan and smile,
And, fault of novel germs,
Mature the unfallen fruit.
Read full poem →Unswerv’d by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface;
You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes,
literatures,
Read full poem →Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death,