Read full poem →Push us back.
A clock with quivering hands
Leaps to the trajectory-angle of our departure.
Dictionary Entry
To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “quivering”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To stain the tessellated marble floor
With pools of red, and quivering green, and blue;
And in the shade beyond the further door,
Read full poem →He pushes against her knees, and brushes his lips across her languid hands.
His lips are hot and speechless. He woos her, quivering, and the room
is filled with shadows, for the sun has set. But she only understands
Read full poem →He comes, on, on. Alack, and all these leaves,
These petty, quivering and illusive blinds,
Avail us nought: the light comes in and in;
Read full poem →Which in the shaken compass flew hither and thither, at last, long
Quivering, poises to north. I think so. But I am cautious:
More, at least, than I was in the old silly days when I left you.
Read full poem →Fair Phoebus lead me to the Muses' springs.
About my head be quivering myrtle wound,
And in sad lovers' heads let me be found.
Read full poem →To see it like a star against the sky,
A twitching body quivering in space,
A spark of passion shining on my face.
Read full poem →To whisper soft and quivering your name,
And drink the passion burning in your frame;
Read full poem →And so to lie,
Between those quivering plumes that thro' fine ether pant,
For hopeless, sweet eternity?
Read full poem →The delicate love-lines of her mouth, till, lit
With quivering fire, the words take wing from it;
As here between our kisses we sit thus