Read full poem →Beloved.
And fingering the smooth and polished kernel
I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting.
Dictionary Entry
The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
In a Sentence
“the kernel of an argument”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “kernel”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →in all the young wenches that pass by, at the lack
door, and coddling every kernel of the fruit for ’em
would ha.' served. But pr'ythee, come over to me,
Read full poem →should have had a series of poems from which, as from his
letters, we could sift here and there a kernel from the mass of
chaff. Coleridge’s youthful efforts give no promise whatever of
Read full poem →Paints on my lids a moment till the hull
Be lifted from the kernel
And Slumber fed to me.
Read full poem →AFTER night's thunder far away had rolled
The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold,
And in the perfect blue the clouds uncurled,
Read full poem →With bung-holes bored by squirrels well,
To get the kernel from the shell;
Or maggots a way out to win,
Read full poem →Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat;
And when he hath the kernel eat,
Who doth not fling away the shell?
Read full poem →To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Read full poem →Your nuts in oak-tree cleft?'--
'For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree;
For wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms,
Read full poem →To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,