Read full poem →But now secure the painted vessel glides,
The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides:
While melting music steals upon the sky,
Dictionary Entry
The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. tidestides springtides hightides lowtides neaptides oceantides red
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Poetry examples for “tides”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But her ears are vexed with the roar and her face with the foam of the
tides.
O lips that the live blood faints in, the leavings of racks and rods!
Read full poem →Fate is a sea without shore, and the soul is a rock that abides;
But her ears are vexed with the roar and her face with the foam of the tides.
O lips that the live blood faints in, the leavings of racks and rods!
Read full poem →No shoal, no shallow among the roaring reefs,
No gulf whereout the straining tides throw spars,
No surf where white bones twist like whirled white fire.
Read full poem →Winds that make moan and triumph, skies that bend,
Thunders, and sound of tides in gulf and firth,
Spake through his spirit of speech, whose death should send
Read full poem →More deep than the seas is that River,
More full than their manifold tides,
Where for ever and ever and ever
Read full poem →I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate.
Read full poem →The fortressed port through which the great ships pass,
The tides, the wharves, the dens I contemplate,
Are sweet like wanton loves because I hate.
Read full poem →Which once was all the life years held for thee,
Can now scarce bide the tides of memory
Cast on thy soul a little spray of tears,--
Read full poem →Of ether, as a bridge.
Beneath, the tides of day and night
With flame and blackness ridge