Read full poem →Blushes with love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
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Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.
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Poetry examples for “levin”
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Read full poem →Blushes with love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
Read full poem →M. Poirier of the Sorbonne translated in England last year (1951).
With Harry Levin’s book, more ambitious and much better than
these, the subject may be said to have become a going concern. His
Read full poem →Marlowe’s dramatic accomplishment stands that comparison poorly.
Some recent revivals cited by Levin tend to prove rather, as Poirier
says, that his works have not survived on the stage than that they
Read full poem →Who victor died on Gadite wave!
To him, as to the burning levin,
Short, bright, resistless course was given.
