Read full poem →The fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign;
Of all the virgins of the sylvan train
None taught the trees a nobler race to bear,
Dictionary Entry
One who resides in the woods.
Origin
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Common Phrases
scene sylvanlake sylvanbeauty sylvan. sylvanavenue sylvanretreat sylvan
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Poetry examples for “sylvan”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And first the pardon of the nymphs implored,
And those offended sylvan powers adored:
But when she backward would have fled, she found
Read full poem →To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong.
The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades,
The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian maids,
Read full poem →So not seeing I sang; so now--Nor seeing, nor hearing,
Neither by waterfall lulled, nor folded in sylvan embraces,
Neither by cell of the Sibyl, nor stepping the Monte Gennaro,
Read full poem →Summer laid her supple Glove
In its sylvan Drawer --
Wheresoe'er, or was she --
Read full poem →Stepping beneath a boisterous wind from Thrace,
Throughout this sylvan place
Spreads the bright tips,
Read full poem →And winds were soft and low,
To lie amid some sylvan scene.
Where, the long drooping boughs between,
Read full poem →For them there was an eloquent voice in all
The sylvan pomp of woods, the golden sun,
The flowers, the leaves, the river on its way,
Read full poem →And winds were soft and low,
To lie amid some sylvan scene,
Where, the long drooping boughs between,
Read full poem →Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: