Read full poem →Loved of lovers whose names beholden
Thrill men's eyes as with light of olden
Days more glad than their flight was fleet.
Dictionary Entry
A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
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. thrillthrill littlethrill greatthrill real
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Poetry examples for “thrill”
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Read full poem →Who shall redeem it anew? but we, if thou wilt, let us fly;
Let us take to us, now that the white skies thrill with a moon
unarisen,
Read full poem →You thrill as his pulses dwindle,
You brighten and warm as he bleeds,
Read full poem →Into a symbol of the tender moon.
Why does it thrill more than the handsome boat
That bore me o’er the wild Atlantic ways,
Read full poem →Nor moved the midnight river-damps,
Nor thrill’d the poplar; quiet stood
The chestnut with its thousand lamps;
Read full poem →Give me to breathe in peace and in surprise
The light-thrill'd ether of your rarest skies,
Till inmost absolution start
Read full poem →At leisure, till the time should serve,
With just enough of dread to thrill
The hope, and make it trebly dear;
Read full poem →A tender glamour of day,--there comes to view
Far in your eyes a yet more hungering thrill,--
Such fire as Love's soul-winnowing hands distil
Read full poem →human rights. It contains no thought, no pur-
pose which can give impulse or thrill to those who
love liberty and hope to make the world a safer
Read full poem →'I shall live, I shall live, I shall grow, I shall grow,
I shall wake up in peace, I shall thrill with the glow
Of the life of Temu, the god who prizes