Read full poem →Sacred to social life and social love,
Shall glitter o'er the pendant green,
Where Thames reflects the visionary scene:
Dictionary Entry
A bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance.
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Common Phrases
. glitterglitter eyes
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Poetry examples for “glitter”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In bright confusion open rouleaus lie,
They strike the soul, and glitter in the eye.
Fired by the sight, all reason I disdain;
Read full poem →And rode till midnight when the college lights
Began to glitter firefly-like in copse 205
And linden alley : then we past an arch,
Read full poem →And her fierce mouth sweetens, her eyes wax wide and her eyelashes
glitter,
And she laughs with a savour of blood in her face, and a savour of
Read full poem →All over the corn's dim motion, against the blue
Dark sky of night, the wandering glitter, the swarm
Of questing brilliant things:--you joy, you true
Read full poem →are no lids. Blue, black, gray, and hazel, and the irises are cased
in the whites, and they glitter and spark under the moon. The basket
is heaped with human eyes. She cracks off the whites and throws them away.
Read full poem →Against the frozen housefronts:
Lost in the glitter of a million movements.
Read full poem →Why am I warned? Why am I sent away?
Why is your glitter full of curious mistrust?
O glass subtle and cunning, O powdery gold!
Read full poem →Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-
built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they throng; they glitter in marches.
Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches,
Read full poem →All over the corn's dim motion, against the blue
Dark sky of night, the wandering glitter, the swarm
Of questing brilliant things:--you joy, you true