Read full poem →Some boy would spy it.”
At this upon the sward
She tapt her tiny silken-sandal’d foot :
Dictionary Entry
A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. swardheight swardsward greensward grasssward grassysward keithsward level
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Poetry examples for “sward”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Who lives and triumphs in the plough--
One sometimes meets a pleasant sward
Of swarthy grass; and quickly marred
Read full poem →Like to a warrior's destiny! I love
To stretch me often on thy shadowed sward,
And hear the laugh of summer leaves above;
Read full poem →And throws a shadow round,
A green sward close before it,
The greenest ever found:
Read full poem →Emphatically, the old house crumbled. The ruins
Would litter, as already the leaves, this petted sward,
And no annalist went in to the lord or the peons ;
Read full poem →Had taken fairy phantasies to strew
Daisies upon the saci*ed sward last eve.
And so the dawned light in pomp receive.
Read full poem →The churchyard wall that clips the square
Of open hill-sward fresh and green
Where last year they lay.
Read full poem →The raptur'd hour,
Sweet on the fragrant, flow'ry sward,
In shady bow'r:
Read full poem →And stick-ends, charred,
Still strew the sward
Whereon I stand,