Read full poem →Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes,
Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er,
The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more;
Dictionary Entry
To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
Origin
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Common Phrases
white gleaming. gleamingeyes gleamingblack gleaminggleaming eyes
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Poetry examples for “gleaming”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →We dropt with evening on a rustic town
Set in a gleaming river’s crescent-curve,
Close at the boundary of the liberties ; 170
Read full poem →the summer,
In the brake is a gleaming of eyes and a hissing of tongues that I
knew;
Read full poem →Since sorrows die;
Deep in the gleaming glass
She sees all past things pass,
Read full poem →Swaying to the kissing breeze
Swings the treasure, golden-gleaming,
Apples of Hesperides!
Read full poem →Beyond the hills a watered land,
Beyond the gulf a gleaming strand
Of mansions where the righteous sup;
Read full poem →Of the mysterious sea-line far away,
Seen only on a gleaming gold-white day,
That made it dear and beautiful to you.
Read full poem →And catch the gleaming of a random light,
Read full poem →And as the full-moon, spectral, lies
Within the crescent’s gleaming arms,
The present shows her heedless eyes
Read full poem →See!--it flickers up the sky through the night!
Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
And be sure it will lead us aright--