Read full poem →Of what to-morrow shall not be;
So mocking with immortal bays
The cross-bones of mortality!
Dictionary Entry
To mimic, to simulate.
Origin
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Common Phrases
smile mocking. mockingbird mockingtone mockinglaughter mocking
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Poetry examples for “mocking”
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Read full poem →How sing the Lord's Song in so strange a Land?
A torrid waste of water-mocking sand;
Oases of wild grapes;
Read full poem →Do shadows crouch within the mocking light?
Stand thou! but if thy terrored heart takes flight
Read full poem →Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings,
Mocking the sunshine in their glittering wings,
How merrily they creep, and run, and fly!
Read full poem →The sinner’s mocking tongue is dry,
Wonder is on that mighty jeerer,
Read full poem →Into a river, clear, brimful, and flush
With crystal mocking of the trees and sky.
A little shallop, floating there hard by.
Read full poem →Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet,
Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet!
Read full poem →Let those arch eyes now softly shine,
That mocking mouth grow sweetly bland;
Ah! let them rest, those eyes, on mine!
Read full poem →Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet,
Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet!
Read full poem →His purple galley and his Tyrian men
And treacherous Aphrodite’s mocking eyes?
For surely it was thou, who, like a star