Read full poem →And covered things thereof,
That hold delight as grape-flowers hold their wine;
Red mouths of maidens and red feet of doves,
Dictionary Entry
A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
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Common Phrases
juice grape. grapesugar grapevines grapevarieties grapevine grapegrape wildgrape oregon
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Poetry examples for “grape”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Pluck thy red pleasure from the teeth of pain,
Break down thy vine ere yet grape-gatherers prune,
Slay me ere day can slay desire again;
Read full poem →actual wild vine (vol. i. p. 100 of the _Life_), which ran all to leaf and
never brought a grape worth eating, for fault of pruning-hooks and
vine-dressers.
Read full poem →Trickling in watery drops, whose flowing shxpr
Weeps that it falls ere fixed into a grape ;
So the dry stock, no more that spreading vine,
Read full poem →And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,
Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,
Read full poem →Cocoa in pods and alligator pears,
And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,
Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,
Read full poem →And the winds did woo),
With the gourd and the grape luxuriant grew.
So when in tears
Read full poem →Why does the small child in the soiled-white imitation fur coat
Crawl in the very black gutter beneath the grape stand?
Why does the really handsome young woman approach me in Sackville Street