Read full poem →If one can do't; if not, two every night.
Though I am slender, I have store of pith,
Nor want I strength, but weight, to press her with:
Dictionary Entry
The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pithhelmet pithball pithballs pithhelmets pithpith whitepith centralpith great
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Poetry examples for “pith”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →(How tall it stood in the river!)
Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man,
Steadily from the outside ring,
Read full poem →Billets that blaze substantial and slow;
Pine-stump split deftly, dry as pith;
Larch-heart that chars to a chalk-white glow:
Read full poem →At brooses thou had ne’er a fellow
For pith an’ speed;
But ev’ry tail thou pay’t them hollow,
Read full poem →well ynoughe. The plante proveth many times wel, yf it be
of a good and clene groweth, and for the pith of it is quicke
ynoughe of cast, it wyll plye and bow far afore it breake, as-
Read full poem →and worse. Newe ale if it runne not over the barrell whan
it is newe tunned, wil sone lease his pith, and his head afore
he be longe drawen on.
Read full poem →unprofitable. For yf brasse, iron or style, have theyr owne
strength and pith in them, they be farre above mannes
streng^: yf they be made meete for mannes strengthe,
Read full poem →Too low for him. They ’71l murmur more and louder
If captives of our pith and sinew, fit
For all the work the Spaniard hates, are freed, —