Read full poem →and unity with which it invests his picture."
The poems relating to the Mower are of great
interest, and illustrate what Lamb called the
Dictionary Entry
A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass.
In a Sentence
“The gardener pushed the mower across the lawn to trim the overgrown grass.”
Origin
From Middle English ‘mowere’, from the verb ‘mow’ meaning to cut grass, related to Old English ‘māwan’.
Common Phrases
. mowermower lawnmower powermower ridingmower rotarymower push
Synonyms
Antonyms
Poetry examples for “mower”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The best grass on the farm. A pity the roof
Will not bear a mower to mow it. But
Only fowls have foothold enough.
Read full poem →Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights;
The mower's scythe makes music to my ear;
I am the mother of all dear delights;
Read full poem →His scythe the mower o’er his shoulder leans,
And whetting, jars with sharp and tinkling sound;
Read full poem →Sweet is the swallow twittering on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Read full poem →Whose slumbering vales forlorn Calypso knew,
Where never mower rose at break of day
But all unswathed the trammelling grasses grew,
Read full poem →The mower in the dew had loved them thus,
By leaving them to flourish, not for us,
Read full poem →term. It included the crooning of the nurse to the child... the
half-sung chant of the mower or sailor... the formal ode sung by the poet.
In all Greek lyrics, even in the choral odes, music was the handmaid of