Read full poem →From her to me, from me to her,
What passed so subtly, stealthily?
As rose to rose that by it blows
Dictionary Entry
With subtleness, in a subtle manner; with cleverness rather than brute force.
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Poetry examples for “subtly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sitting and looking each a different way;
And hardly tasking, subtly questioning,
Another spirit went around the ring
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 →highly deceptive air of spontaneous improvisation) expression of an
essentially sensitive and subtly illusive nature, seeking always to
break through the veil that obscures for him, at least in some degree,
Read full poem →Reminiscent of them—twined from all intrepid captains, young or old;
A pennant universal, subtly waving, all time, o’er all brave sailors,
All seas, all ships.