Read full poem →Shall be found out for you,
Who, tasting, have robb'd the whole tree!
Dictionary Entry
A small amount of food or drink.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. tastingroom tastingfood tastingtasting winetasting without
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Poetry examples for “tasting”
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Read full poem →And darts abroad on frantic wing,
Tasting the honey and the sting;
And, moaning where all round me sleep
Read full poem →Could I, at once, my mad ambition smother,
For tasting joys like these, sure I should be
Happier, and dearer to society.
Read full poem →Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
Read full poem →Could I, at once, my mad ambition smother,
For tasting joys like these, sure I should be
Happier, and dearer to society.
Read full poem →The cutter-bar had just gone champing over
(Miraculously without tasting flesh)
And left defenseless to the heat and light.
Read full poem →_ Lovely and durable, and taste them slowly,
One after one, like tasting a sweet food.
I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
Read full poem →"One after one, like tasting a sweet food."
Read full poem →Wet roofs, beneath the lamp-light; the strong crust
Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food;
Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood;