Read full poem →Our thoughts ring sad as bells that toll,
Not knowing beyond this blind world's girth
What things are writ in heaven's full scroll.
Dictionary Entry
A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. girthmeasurements girthgirth abdominalgirth chestgirth heart
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Poetry examples for “girth”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,
Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth
Upon the sides of mirth,
Read full poem →Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth
Seems that girds them each with each: yet whether
Read full poem →It may be, when my heart is dull,
Having attained its girth,
I shall not find so beautiful
Read full poem →He has of money a plentiful lack;
And but for a gay coat of double his girth
There is not a plainer thing on the earth
Read full poem →Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
Read full poem →Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search