Read full poem →Could I change you, help you to love me, sweet,
Could I give you the love that would sweeten death,
We should yield, go down, locked hands and feet,
Dictionary Entry
To make sweet to the taste.
In a Sentence
“to sweeten tea”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sweeten
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Synonyms
Poetry examples for “sweeten”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →As roses, when the warm West blows,
Break to full flower and sweeten spring,
My soul would break to a glorious rose
Read full poem →Can bring true rest to cool my body’s fever,
Nor sweeten in my mouth the acid brine,
That salts my choicest drink and will forever.
Read full poem →Withering on their stalks uneaten,
Strawberries turn dark and sweeten
In the lapse of noon;
Read full poem →Vain it must be, I knew. Yet naught did my despair
But sweeten the strange sweetness, while through the
wild air
Read full poem →Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,
Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.
Read full poem →By threatening round his head in many rings:
These sweeten summer in their happy glee
By giving for her honey melody.
Read full poem →Burst into blossoms of glory eternal
Flowers that sweeten the world with their breath.
Flowers of charity, peace, and devotion
Read full poem →She scorns a pasture withering to the root.
She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten
The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.
Read full poem →The Sigh, that saddens and endears,
And Cares, that sweeten Joy. 30