Read full poem →Ah sweet, the maiden's mouth is cold,
Her breast-blossoms are simply red,
Her hair mere brown or gold,
Dictionary Entry
In a simple manner; without complication or difficulty. It can also mean
In a Sentence
“She simply forgot to bring her lunch to school today, so she had to buy something from the cafeteria.”
Origin
From Old French
Common Phrases
Still being gathered for this entry.
Antonyms
Poetry examples for “simply”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →have fallen into desuetude. They are the essentials of all great poetry,
indeed of all great literature, and they are simply these:--
Read full poem →That he is quite unaffected, and free, and expansive, and easy;
I could pronounce him simply a cold intellectual being.--
When does he make advances?--He thinks that women should woo him;
Read full poem →Turn, however, I must, though it seem I turn to desert her;
For the sense of the thing is simply to hurry to Florence,
Where the certainty yet may be learnt, I suppose, from the Ropers.
Read full poem →Whether One really exist to hear or do anything for them,—
Simply impelled by the need of the moment to turn to a Being
In a conception of whom there is freedom from all limitation,—
Read full poem →Who, should their own life plaudits bring,
Are simply vex’d at heart that such
An easy, yea, delightful thing
Read full poem →’Twere after all a vulgar song,
For she’s so simply, subtly sweet,
My deepest rapture does her wrong.
Read full poem →A lady with an angel's face,
That made devotion simply debt,
Till sick with envy and regret,
Read full poem →This little germ of nuptial love,
Which springs so simply from the sod,
The root is, as my song shall prove,
Read full poem →When not a churl but felt the Giant's heat,
Albeit he simply call'd it his,
Flush in his common labour with delight,
