Read full poem →If a perfume be left, if a bloom,
Let it live till Italia be risen,
Dictionary Entry
A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor
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Common Phrases
. perfumeperfume sweet
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Poetry examples for “perfume”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →stories,
Blows with a perfume of songs and of memories beloved from a boy,
Blows from the capes of the past oversea to the bays of the present,
Read full poem →Smoulder the fallen roses of out-lived minutes,
And the perfume of your soul
Is vague and suffusing,
Read full poem →Here four o'clocks, to the passionate night above
Fling whiffs of perfume, like pale incense showers.
A little garden, loved with a great love!
Read full poem →O odours of new-budding rose,
O lily’s chaste perfume,
O fragrance that didst first unclose
Read full poem →Shed their fresh leaves in showers,
And how their perfume rose up to the sky
Before it passed away.
Read full poem →And fear those, that to fear them least intend.
Who now will care the altars to perfume?
Tut, men should not their courage so consume.
Read full poem →Islands of lofty palm trees blooming white
That lend their perfume to the tropic sea,
Where fields lie idle in the dew drenched night,
Read full poem →Your life is in the rose you gave,
Its perfume suffocates my heart;
There’s no refreshment in the breeze;
Read full poem →Against our room,
She train'd the gold Azalea, whose perfume
She, Spring-like, from her breathing grace dispersed.