Read full poem →Vex'd to be still in town, I knit my brow,
Look sour, and hum a tune, as you do now.
Dictionary Entry
The sensation of a sour taste.
Origin
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Common Phrases
cream sour. sourmilk sourgrapes sourtaste sournote soursour turnedsour cup
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Poetry examples for “sour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Methinks she would be nimble when she's down.
Though her sour looks a Sabine's brow resemble,
I think she'll do, but deeply can dissemble.
Read full poem →And kernell'd drink of brain-renewing power,
With bitter condiment and sour,
And sweet economy of sweet,
Read full poem →Think! You labor for years in trees not worth the raising.
You planted what you knew not, bitter or sour for sweet.
Read full poem →Shall the larkspur blossom or the corn grow under this cloud?
Sour to the fruitful seed
Is the cold earth under this cloud,
Read full poem →Following falls and falls of rain,
When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of
Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime;
Read full poem →Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Read full poem →In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Read full poem →Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: