Read full poem →As at the end of some deep avenue
A tender glamour of day,--there comes to view
Far in your eyes a yet more hungering thrill,--
Dictionary Entry
Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. glamourover glamourgirl glamour
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Poetry examples for “glamour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Whereof there is not either day or night,
And shared with us the glamour of the Word
That fell once upon Amos to record
Read full poem →If the old wrong and all its injured glamour
Haunts you by day and gives your night no peace,
Read full poem →We gave a glamour to the task
That he encountered and saw through,
Read full poem →O Lady of my heart, have
O'er all my thought their golden glamour cast;
As amber torch-flames, where strange men-at-arms
Read full poem →of an eye-witness, accounts not only for the fervent heat at which these
Turkish tales were written, but for the extraordinary glamour which they
threw over contemporary readers, to whom the local colouring was new and
Read full poem →The unquiet bright Atlantic plain?
--What, has some glamour made me sleep, 175
And sent me with my dogs to sweep,
Read full poem →_The unquiet bright Atlantic plain?_
_--What! has some glamour made me sleep,_
_And sent me with my dogs to sweep,_
Read full poem →Ilk ghaist that haunts auld ha’ or chaumer,
Ye gipsy-gang that deal in glamour,
And you, deep-read in hell’s black grammar,
Read full poem →A flower in moonlight, she was there,
Was rippling down white ways of glamour
Quietly laid on wave and air.