Read full poem →Ocean and Earth from the lordships of night,
Quickening with vision his eye that was veiled,
Freshening the force in her heart that had failed,
Dictionary Entry
To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
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Common Phrases
. quickeningspirit quickeningpace quickeningpower quickeninginfluence quickening
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Poetry examples for “quickening”
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Read full poem →And exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay
Quickening in darkness, till a voice that day
Cried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.
Read full poem →The unembodied essence, and no more
That with a quickening spell doth o’er us pass
As dew of the night-time, o’er the summer grass?
Read full poem →The unembodied essence, and no more
That with a quickening spell doth o'er us pass
As dew of the night-time, o'er the summer grass?
Read full poem →Swing against him in a wreath---
We may think so from the quickening of his bloom and of his breath.
Read full poem →time is flying, the moment of pleasure short. In Donne's poem one
feels the quickening of the brain, the vision extending its range, the
passion gathering sweep with the expanding rhythms, and from the mind
Read full poem →a marsh and a river, could form a favourable medium for communicating
the influence of the _quickening fire below_.
Read full poem →For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
From the steep prow I marked with quickening eye
Zakynthos, every olive grove and creek,
Read full poem →For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
From the steep prow I marked with quickening eye
Zakynthos, every olive grove and creek,