Read full poem →And the winds did woo),
With the gourd and the grape luxuriant grew.
So when in tears
Dictionary Entry
Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
Origin
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Common Phrases
. gourdrattle gourdvine gourdgourd bottlegourd drinkinggourd bittergourd small
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Poetry examples for “gourd”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
Read full poem →And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
Read full poem →While he from forth the closet brought a heap
Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd
With jellies soother than the creamy curd,
Read full poem →Back'd by the pines, a plank-built cottage stood, 15
Bright in the sun; the climbing gourd-plant's leaves
Muffled its walls, and on the stone-strewn roof
Read full poem →Yes, yes, a tree which must ascend,
No poison-gourd foredoomed to stoop!
I have God's warrant, could I blend
Read full poem →On the plains,
By the caper overrooted, by the gourd
Overscored, 40
Read full poem →as Jonah watched the fall of Nineveh under the shadow
of his gourd. But a worm at the root of Jonah’s gourd
killed it, and deprived him of its shade, and brought
Read full poem →Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love
To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
It is this which recovers