Read full poem →TITLE-PAGE. A design of borders, selected from those in "JERUSALEM"
(plates 5, 19, &c.), with minor details from "MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND
HELL," and "BOOK OF THEL."
Dictionary Entry
A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
In a Sentence
“I filled my plate from the bountiful table.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. platesplates twoplates steelplates colouredplates metalplates glass
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Poetry examples for “plates”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To golden lamps and oranges.
Heap my golden plates with fruit,
Golden fruit, fresh-plucked and ripe;
Read full poem →There shall be plates a-plenty,
And mugs to melt the chill
Read full poem →With everlasting flowers
On fragments of blue plates, to tell the tale.
Read full poem →And when Thanksgiving, came,
If Father'd multiply the plates --
To make an even Sum --
Read full poem →Qui saillent; le dos court qui rentre et qui ressort,
--La graisse sous la peau paraît en feuilles plates
Et les rondeurs des reins semble prendre l'essor.
Read full poem →"White plates and cups clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines," --
Read full poem →These I have loved:
White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, faery dust;
Read full poem →They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street