Read full poem →By night my garden is o'erhung with gems
Fixed in an onyx setting. Fireflies
Flicker their lanterns in my dazzled eyes.
Dictionary Entry
A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
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Common Phrases
. onyxstones onyxstone onyxmarble onyxclub onyxeyes onyxonyx blackonyx mexican
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Poetry examples for “onyx”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Of driving vermeil-rain; and, as he lists,
The dainty onyx-coronals deflowers,
A glorious wanton;--all the wrecks in showers
Read full poem →The everlasting taper lights the gloom;
All wisdom shut into his onyx eyes
Our Father Rosicross sleeps in his tomb.