Read full poem →Precociously knocked at antique doors ajar,
Fatuously touched the hems of the Hierophants,
Dictionary Entry
An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
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Common Phrases
. hemshems sidehems skirt
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Poetry examples for “hems”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Yet though the hideous prison-wall
Still hems him round and round,
And a spirit may not walk by night
Read full poem →Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
And hems in life with narrowing fence.
Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,
Read full poem →Take the draft off and cut out the lining. Leave the
114, inches on the front line or Line 1 for hems. Allow 3
of an inch for seams on Lines 5 and 3. Cut the arm hole
Read full poem →With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
O! let me, true in love, but truly write,