Dictionary Entry
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.
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Poetry examples for “glens”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →What mood wears like complexion to thy woe?
His, who in mountain glens, at noon of day,
Sits rapt, and hears the battle break below?
Read full poem →And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
Read full poem →I've heard my reverend Graunie say,
In lanely glens ye like to stray;
Or where auld-ruin'd castles, gray,
Read full poem →Hyblean murmurs of poetic thought
Industrious in its joy, in vales and glens,
Native or outland, lakes and famous hills!