Read full poem →For chains and thongs
Woven of gossamer and adamant,
To bind me to my unguess'd want,
Dictionary Entry
A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
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Common Phrases
. gossamerthreads gossamerwings gossamerthread gossamerweb gossamerveil gossamer
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Poetry examples for “gossamer”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →May not impossibly have in him shrined,
As in a gossamer globe or thickly padded pod,
Some small seed dear to God.
Read full poem →Her gold hair fell on the wall of gold
Like the delicate gossamer tangles spun
On the burnished disk of the marigold,
Read full poem →See! the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,
And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!
Read full poem →Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds
Read full poem →roses, little suns in the shadow. But the normal bloom is red,
flushed with foolish ardors, laughing, shaking off the gossamer years.
She remembers Love, but not too well, if love is pain. There is no
Read full poem →Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
Read full poem →The tranquil sunny haze, the clinging smoke, the vapor,
Spiritual, airy insects, humming on gossamer wings,
Shimmer of waters, with fish in them—the cerulean above;