Dictionary Entry
A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail.
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Poetry examples for “peacock”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The oil upon the puddles dries
To colours like a peacock's eyes,
And half-submerged tomato-cans
Read full poem →Across the dew drawn and withdrawn,
The noisy peacock on the lawn,
These, and the sun's eye-gladding gleam,
Read full poem →With this conceit, Philosophy stalks frail
As peacock staggering underneath his tail.
Who judge of Plays from their own penny gaff,
Read full poem →CUD. So praisen babes the peacock's spotted train,
And wondren at bright Argus' blazing eye;
Read full poem →With that sprang forth a naked swain;
With spotted wings like peacock's train,
And laughing lope to a tree;
Read full poem →Bottie Daniel 1340 Powderpuff Dr 733-5224
Bottie Jeffrey 112 Peacock Cir 725-1241
Bottie Norman J
Read full poem →Byron's letter to Murray, dated June 27 (but? 28), 1816, does not
precisely tally with Shelley's journal contained in a letter to Peacock,
July 12, 1816 (_Prose Works of P. B. Shelley_, 1880, ii. 171, _sq._);
Read full poem →PEACOCK, MANSFIELD & CO., LTD.
PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
Read full poem →Sought Sugar with the Parrot—or in Sport
Paraded with the Peacock—raced the Partridge—
Or fell a-talking with the Nightingale.
