Read full poem →And when in youth he seeks the shady woods,
Oh! let him fly the crystal lakes and floods,
Nor touch the fatal flowers; but, warn'd by me,
Dictionary Entry
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
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Common Phrases
. lakesregion lakeslakes greatlakes smalllakes largelakes twolakes salt
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Poetry examples for “lakes”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins;
Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie,
Or wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye:
Read full poem →Rocks at their sides, and torrents at their feet;
Or lazy lakes unconscious of a flood, 85
Whose dull, brown naiads ever sleep in mud.
Read full poem →After we left the hotel, on the very way to the steamer.
So we have seen, I fear, not one of the lakes in perfection.
Well, he is not come, and now, I suppose, he will not come.
Read full poem →So--on Montorio's height for a last farewell of the city.
Tibur I have not seen, nor the lakes that of old I had dreamt of;
Tibur I shall not see, nor Anio's waters, nor deep en-
Read full poem →** There tript with prindess foot the elves of hilb.
Brooks, lakes, and groves ; there Sorcery bedimn*d
The noon-tide sun, callM forth the mutinous winds.
Read full poem →Her mother’s air; her Norman face;
Her large sweet eyes, clear lakes of love.
Mary I knew. In former time
Read full poem →Surging, unto skies of fire;
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters--lone and dead,
Read full poem →The spirit of life awakes
In the fresh flags by the lakes.
Read full poem →The lovely lovelier
Than ever before lakes
And meadows were.