Read full poem →But with coin of sighs,
But with rending of raiment
And with weeping of eyes,
Dictionary Entry
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst
In a Sentence
“Lightning rends an oak.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rendingasunder rendingcries rendingcry rendingrending heart
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Poetry examples for “rending”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →By fear deprived of strength to run away. 70
Yet rending with enragËd thumb her tresses,
Her trembling mouth these unmeet sounds expresses:
Read full poem →When she was hurt. Now, none than all,
Heart-rending and angelical
That ignorance of what to do,
Read full poem →And he will never find again
The face that once had been the rending
Of all his purpose among men.
Read full poem →Tearing everything he touches,
Rending everything to pieces,
Filling all the world with wonder,
Read full poem →Tearing everything he touches,
Rending everything to pieces,
Filling all the world with wonder,
Read full poem →With uplift hands our foreheads, lowly bending,
And giving out a shout roost heaven-rending.
Conjure thee to receive our humble Paean,
Read full poem →Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock,
The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock
Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear,
Read full poem →A borther’s sigh! a sister’s tear!
My Jean’s heart-rending throe!
Farewell, my Bess! tho’ thou’rt bereft
Read full poem →His tall figure stretched itself to its full height. There was a
slight rending sound. Then it began to swing forward, slow and
straight, in the manner of a falling tree. A swift muscular