Read full poem →(As ----- and H---y preach) for queens and kings,
The nymph that ne'er read Milton's mighty line,
May, if she love, and merit verse, have mine
Dictionary Entry
In mythology, a beautiful minor goddess or spirit of nature, often associated with a specific natural feature like a tree or water. Also, the immature form of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis, such as a dragonfly or grassho
In a Sentence
“The ancient Greeks believed that a dryad was a type of nymph who lived in trees, while a naiad was a water nymph.”
Origin
From Greek nymphe, meaning "bride, young woman, water nymph."
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Poetry examples for “nymph”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Each silver Vase in mystic order laid.
First, rob'd in white, the Nymph intent adores,
With head uncover'd, the Cosmetic pow'rs.
Read full poem →Deign to be loved, and every heart subdue!
What nymph could e'er attract such crowds as you? 70
Not she whose beauty urged the Centaur's arms,
Read full poem →A nearer woe, a sister's stranger fate.
No nymph of all Oechalia could compare
For beauteous form with Dryope the fair,
Read full poem →Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores,
With head uncover'd, the cosmetic powers.
Read full poem →The blockhead is a slow-worm;
The nymph whose tail is all on flame,
Is aptly term'd a glow-worm:
Read full poem →Thought fit to drown him in her tears:
Else might the ambitious nymph aspire,
To set, like him, Heaven too on fire.
Read full poem →Remembering how we three presented Maid
Or Nymph, or Goddess, at high tide of feast,
In masque or pageant at my father’s court. 195
Read full poem →-. 64, stunted, morally and socially beaten down.
she that taught the Sabine, Egeria, the wood-nymph, wholin-
structed Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, and a Sabine by
Read full poem →Of the great njrmph, did it protect ;
Vera, the nymph, that him inspired,