Read full poem →To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
Dictionary Entry
A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “naiad”
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Read full poem →Come from the galaxy: anon he sports,--
With outspread wings the Naiad Zephyr courts,
Or ruffles all the surface of the lake
Read full poem →Or flush'd Aurora in the roseate dawning!
Or a white Naiad in a rippling stream;
Or a rapt seraph in a moonlight beam;
Read full poem →And felt the Classics were not dead,
To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head,
Or hear the Goat-foot piping low:...