Read full poem →"Upon the wings
Of shimmering moonbeams
I pack my poet's dreams
Dictionary Entry
To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly.
Origin
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Common Phrases
light shimmeringheat shimmeringblue shimmeringwhite shimmeringwater shimmering
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Poetry examples for “shimmering”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It does not speak of mossy forest ways,
Of whispering pine trees or the shimmering birch;
But of quick winds, and the salt, stinging sea!
Read full poem →Red boughs bursting everywhere;
Shimmering of seeded grass;
Hooded gentians all a'mass.
Read full poem →I see it as music, I hear it as light;
Prismatic and shimmering, trembling to tone,
The land of desire, my soul's delight.
Read full poem →A locket twixt her breasts, all gay
In shimmering pearls and tints of blue,
And inlay work of fruit and spray.
Read full poem →That I were a garment,
A shimmering, silken garment,
That all my folds
Read full poem →Yet an altar of jewels,
An altar of shimmering jewels,
Would pale in the light
Read full poem →And like a blossom blown before the breeze
A white moon drifts across the shimmering sky,
Mute arbitress of all thy sad, thy rapturous threnody.
Read full poem →Or stripping by the dimpling pool,
Sedge-fringed about its shimmering face,
Save where we 'd worn an ent'ring place.