Read full poem →With mien to match the morning
And gay delightful guise
And friendly brows and laughter
Dictionary Entry
Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
Origin
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Common Phrases
. guiseguise deguise newguise differentguise another
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Poetry examples for “guise”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Byron's metrical "Tales" come before us in the guise of light reading,
and may be "easily criticized" as melo-dramatic--the heroines
Read full poem →Sweet bird! I could not wish for thine!
Or if it were, in wingéd guise,
A visitant from Paradise;
Read full poem →So deemed the Childe, as o'er the mountains he
Did take his way in solitary guise:
Sweet was the scene, yet soon he thought to flee,
Read full poem →Who hid such import in an infant’s gloom?
Who lent thee, child, this meditative guise?
Who massed, round that slight brow, these clouds of doom?
Read full poem →What phantoms fill the dimly lighted room;
What ghostly shades in awe-creating guise
Are bodied forth within the teeming gloom.
Read full poem →Of happy truth upon his forehead low
Lay, making wisdom lovely, in the guise
Of earth-awakening morn upon the brow
Read full poem →Yet there in the parlor sits
Some figure of noble guise,--
Our angel, in a stranger's form,