Read full poem →After the 'broider'd shoe,
And swear it smelt like musk where He did pass,
Though he were Borgia or Caiaphas.
Dictionary Entry
A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
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Common Phrases
. muskox muskdeer muskoxen muskrose muskturtle muskmusk money
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Poetry examples for “musk”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Thickly crusts the blackest moss,
Blows the rose its musk across,
Floats the boat that is forgot
Read full poem →Bring topaz, emeralds, gold, and minerals rare,
Musk that will ever be sweet on mortal air,
Bright stiff brocades outlasting the short ken
Read full poem →'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
Read full poem →Crowned with flowers purple, white, and red:
For there the lily, and the musk-rose, sighing,
Are emblems true of hapless lovers dying:
Read full poem →And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50
Read full poem →*Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms :
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
Read full poem →I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk-rose; 'twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew
Read full poem →Crowned with flowers purple, white, and red:
For there the lily, and the musk-rose, sighing,
Are emblems true of hapless lovers dying:
Read full poem →I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk-rose; 'twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew