Read full poem →The streams and fountains no delights could yield:
'Twas all her joy the ripening fruits to tend,
And see the boughs with happy burdens bend.
Dictionary Entry
To grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.)
In a Sentence
“Grapes ripen in the sun.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ripeningprocess ripeningfruit ripeningperiod ripeningripening fruitripening ostwald
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Poetry examples for “ripening”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →With dreamier dreams that o’er the glass
Of shyly ripening woman-sense
Reflected, scarce reflected, pass,
Read full poem →She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain;
She cannot feel the rain
Read full poem →When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is ripening to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
Read full poem →When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is ripening to excess, 30
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
Read full poem →When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is ripening to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
Read full poem →I meet thee happy, and I wish thee well,
Till ripening summer summons us to part.
Read full poem →No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Read full poem →No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Read full poem →My loveless eye unmoved may gaze on thee,
And safely view thy ripening beauties shine;
Happy, I ne'er shall see them in decline;