Read full poem →Arabesqued with the song of birds
Who, swinging unseen under leaves,
Made music more eager than words.
Dictionary Entry
To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
In a Sentence
“The plant swung in the breeze.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. swingingdoors swingingback swinging
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Poetry examples for “swinging”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It seems as though the garden which you love
Were like a swinging censer, its incense
Floating before us as a reverent act
Read full poem →"Or did you meet a pretty page
Sat swinging on the gate;
Sat whistling, whistling like a bird,
Read full poem →Yet gave him up at last to Fate’s wild whim)
Hung pitifully o’er the swinging char.
Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view
Read full poem →Here the iron lamp commenced swinging with redoubled violence, and the
devil half started from his seat;—however, with a slight sigh, he
Read full poem →Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Read full poem →Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells—
Read full poem →insufferably narrow, or houses so miraculously tall? What gloom
their shadows cast upon the ground! It is well the swinging lamps
in those endless colonnades are kept burning throughout the day;
Read full poem →Afterward -- in the Meadow --
Swinging her Beryl Bell --
The Mold-life -- all forgotten -- now --