Read full poem →Thence Beauty, waking all her forms, supplies
An angel's sweetness, or Bridgewater's eyes.
Dictionary Entry
The condition of being sweet or sugary.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sweetness
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “sweetness”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And by reflection learn to mend her face:
The wonted sweetness to her form restore,
Be what she was, and charm mankind once more!
Read full poem →And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
Read full poem →Also the scent from them fills the room
With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.
Read full poem →When the damp freshness of the morning earth
Was full of pungent sweetness and thy song?
Read full poem →Those genUe rays under the lids were Red,
Which (hraugh bis looks that piercing sweetness
shed.
Read full poem →Make that the Tulips may have share
Of sweetness, seeing they are fair;
And Roses of their thorns disarm:
Read full poem →Bowed to earth and lay on earth for earth’s replenishing;
Put off sweetness, tasted bitterness, endured time’s fashioning;
Put off life and put on death: and lo! it was all to bring
Read full poem →Took death for love and won him after strife;
One droned in sweetness like a fattened bee:
All on the threshold, yet all short of life.
Read full poem →Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows!
There is a subtle sweetness in the sun,
The ripples on the stream’s breast gaily run,