Read full poem →High the screaming fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
Dictionary Entry
A brilliant red colour tinged with orange.
Origin
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Common Phrases
fever scarletletter scarlet. scarletcloth scarletflowers scarletpimpernel scarletscarlet bright
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Poetry examples for “scarlet”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,
With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye
Of purple batteries, every gun in place.
Read full poem →And a palace on the right-hand side.
Foot-passengers in scarlet
Pass over the glittering tide.
Read full poem →Between us leapt a gold and scarlet flame.
Into the hollow of the cupped, arched blue
Read full poem →Even so, I can see that it has red berries,
A scarlet fruit,
Filmed over with moisture.
Read full poem →The phantom of a yellow rooster flaunting a scarlet
comb, on top of a dung pile crying hallelujah to
Read full poem →“Yea, thee My wandering sheep,
Yea, thee My scarlet sinner slow to weep,
Come to Me, I will love thee and will keep.”
Read full poem →The poppy saith amid the corn:
Let but my scarlet head appear
And I am held in scorn;
Read full poem →My lily feet are soiled with mud,
With scarlet mud which tells a tale
Of hope that was, of guilt that was,