Read full poem →So light their touch the grasses scarcely sway
As they the measure tread to the lilting flute.
Alas! 't is only Fancy thus adorns.
Dictionary Entry
To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
Origin
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Common Phrases
voice liltingmelody liltingmusic liltingrhythm liltingtune liltingaccent lilting
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Poetry examples for “lilting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →repeated them so often in my hearing that I learned by sound the words
of many before I understood their meaning. In the lilting rhythm of
the Sapphics and Iambics, his ear, as yet untutored in more
Read full poem →"_He'd never seen so many dead before_."
The lilting words danced up and down his brain,
While corpses jumped and capered in the rain.