Read full poem →The weightier matters of the law
She pays: mere mint and cumin not;
And, in the road that she was taught,
Dictionary Entry
A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “mint”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →She bent above my favourite mint
With conscious garden grace,
Read full poem →Of bees, and smell the drying grass
And the sweet mint, because I had come
To an end of forest, and because
Read full poem →yet far beyond the spent seed-pods,
and the blackened stalks of mint,
the poplar is bright on the hill,
Read full poem →To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint,
While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't;
Read full poem →Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint,
While the owner ne’er knew half the good that was in’t;
Read full poem →I found her sweetness all for me.
God plied him in the mint of time,
And coined for us a golden day,
Read full poem →Of an aesthetic tough, diverse, untamed,
Incredible to prudes, the mint of dirt,
Read full poem →an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
The smell of apples, aromas from crush’d sage-plant, mint, birch-bark,
The boy’s longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what
Read full poem →Can I forget what charms did once adorn
My garden, stored with pease, and mint, and thyme,
And rose and lilly for the sabbath morn?
