Read full poem →The Smiles and Loves had died in Voiture's death,
But that for ever in his lines they breathe.
Dictionary Entry
A long, narrow mark; a row of words; a boundary or limit; a connection.
In a Sentence
“The students drew parallel lines in their notebooks to practice perspective.”
Origin
From Old French 'ligne', from Latin 'linea' meaning 'linen thread, string, line'.
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Poetry examples for “lines”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →of Pope's epitaphs ('Lives of the Poets'), devotes a couple of pages of
somewhat captious criticism to these lines; but they have at least the
virtue of simplicity and sincerity, and are at once an admirable
Read full poem →LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI,
Read full poem →With hairy springes we the birds betray,
Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey,
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
Read full poem →Yet still preserve the province of the friend;
What life, what vigour must the lines require? 5
What music tune them, what affection fire?
Read full poem →And wit and love no sin;
Come these soft lines, with nothing stiff in,
To Bellenden, Lepell, and Griffin.[74]
Read full poem →But bland the smile that like a wrinkling wind
On glassy water drove his cheek in lines ; 115
A little dry old man, without a star,
Read full poem →Eyes of hours whose paces halt or quicken
Read in bloodred lines of loss and blame,
Writ where cloud and darkness round it thicken,
Read full poem →To take the print of doubt and change and fear:
And interwoven with lines of wrath and hate
Blood-red with soils of many a sanguine year.