Read full poem →(_As they touch hands a mist draws over the stage, the walls
of the house seem to fade away, the sound of the storm grows
loud around them. They stand in a white world full of obscure
Dictionary Entry
To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
In a Sentence
“He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. It seems like it is going to rain later. How did she seem to you?”
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Poetry examples for “seem”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →(That ev'n in slumber caus'd her cheek to glow)
Seem'd to her ear his winning lips to lay, 25
And thus in whispers said, or seem'd to say.
Read full poem →And all the writer lives in every line;
His easy art may happy nature seem,
Trifles themselves are elegant in him.
Read full poem →Three lovely virgins, and of equal age;
Intent they read, and all enamoured seem,
As he that met his likeness in the stream:[17]
Read full poem →(That even in slumber caused her cheek to glow),
Seem'd to her ear his willing lips to lay,
And thus in whispers said, or seem'd to say:
Read full poem →Old, and void of all good-nature;
Lean and fretful; would seem wise;
Yet plays the fool before she dies.
Read full poem →Thus the king ; 160
And I, tho’ nettled that he seem’d to slur
With garrulous ease and oily courtesies
Read full poem →J seem’d to move among a world of ghosts,
Read full poem →Your flight from out your bookless wilds would seem
As arguing love of knowledge and of power ;
Read full poem →The poem seem properly to belong, however, to the third
quarter of the century. In 1859, Tennyson published,