Read full poem →Sweating he walks, while loads of golden grain
O'ercharge the shoulders of the seeming swain:
Oft o'er his back a crooked scythe is laid,
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?”
Origin
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Common Phrases
contradiction seemingparadox seeminglack seemingindifference seemingcontradictions seeming. seemingseeming without
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Poetry examples for “seeming”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The sinless likeness of his seeming "sins"--mere fancies as it appears
they mostly were, mere soft light aspirations of theory without body or
Read full poem →and undulant in the orange glow. His senses flow towards her,
where she lies supine and dreaming. Seeming drowned in a golden halo.
Read full poem →Beautiful Holy Lady, take my shame away from me! Let this fear
be only seeming, let it be that I am dreaming. For months I have hoped
it was so, now I am afraid I know. Lady, why should this be shame,
Read full poem →finished The poet's imagination is justi-
fied in its seeming extravagance by the intensity
and unity with which it invests his picture."
Read full poem →Those but to Lucan do continue May.
But the nor Ignorance nor seeming good
Misled, but malice fixt and understood.
Read full poem →Swords and bayonets, I to the outskirts back, and ask a
Mercantile-seeming bystander, ‘What is it?’ and he, looking always
That way, makes me answer, ‘A Priest, who was trying to fly to
Read full poem →humus in Cymbeline, act ii, agitated by as violent a jealousy of his wife,
thus describes her seeming modesty :