Read full poem →Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70
What guards the purity of melting Maids,
In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades,
Dictionary Entry
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
In a Sentence
“I melted butter to make a cake.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
point meltingpot meltingpoints meltingtemperature melting. meltingsnow meltingmelting highmelting low
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Poetry examples for “melting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Drags from the town to wholesome country air,
Just when she learns to roll a melting eye,
And hear a spark, yet think no danger nigh;
Read full poem →Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.
What guards the purity of melting maids,
In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades,
Read full poem →Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool.
Read full poem →(if it were a kiss
distinct entirely melting sinuous lean . . .
whereof this lady in some book had read
Read full poem →As he fences the lilac lights of the sky,
And drives them up where the ice of the melting moon
Is drowned in the waste of morning!
Read full poem →Really it was snow that was melting, and the water
came dripping down on Coyote’s face.
Read full poem →There is in inferior minds a passion for unity, that is, for a confusion
and melting together of things which a good mind will want kept
distinct. Uninformed English criticism has treated Unanimism as if it
Read full poem →I have known the golden disc,
I have seen it melting above me.
I have known the stone-bright place,
Read full poem →An antique chaunt and in an unknown tongue.
Now melting upward through the sloping scale
Swell'd the sweet strain to a melodious wail;