Read full poem →And break upon thee in a flood of day!
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn,
Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn;
Dictionary Entry
To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “gild”
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Read full poem →Volumes whose size the space exactly fill'd,
Or which fond authors were so good to gild,
Or where, by sculpture made for ever known,
Read full poem →Sorrow and sorrow? Nay, I rather thrilled,
Distrusting every light that seemed to gild
The onward path, and feared to overlean
Read full poem →All things are new;—the buds, the leaves,
That gild the elm tree's nodding crest.
And even the nest beneath the eaves;
Read full poem →All things are new;--the buds, the leaves,
That gild the elm-tree's nodding crest,
And even the nest beneath the eaves;--
Read full poem →And heaven of all her stars and moon,
To gild with dazzling similes
Blind folly's vain and empty lay:
Read full poem →“HOW MANY BARDS GILD THE LAPSES OF TIME!”
TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME SOME ROSES 7 Ppa;
Read full poem →How many bards gild the lapses of time!
A few of them have ever been the food
Read full poem →Who soon had left her charms for vulgar bliss,
And spoiled her goodly lands to gild his waste,
Nor calm domestic peace had ever deigned to taste.
Read full poem →The tender azure[46] of the unruffled deep,
The orange tints that gild the greenest bough,
The torrents that from cliff to valley leap,[ba]