Read full poem →"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
Dictionary Entry
The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
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Common Phrases
. tonguetongue mothertongue native
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Poetry examples for “tongue”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A stately, worthless animal,
That plies the tongue, and wags the tail,
All flutter, pride, and talk.
Read full poem →He said; when Shock, who thought she slept too long, 115
Leap'd up, and wak'd his mistress with his tongue.
'T was then, Belinda, if report say true,
Read full poem →Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung,
Deaf the praised ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Even he, whose soul now melts in mournful lays,
Read full poem →Such were the notes thy once-loved Poet sung,
Till Death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
Oh just beheld and lost! admired and mourn'd!
Read full poem →Pleased, the green lustre of the scales survey,
And with their forky tongue shall innocently play.
Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise!
Read full poem →Yet even in death Eurydice he sung,
Eurydice still trembled on his tongue,
Eurydice the woods,
Read full poem →The tongue moved gently first, and speech was low,
Till wrangling Science taught it noise and show,
Read full poem →Was just not ugly, and was just not mad:
Her tongue still ran on credit from her eyes,
More pert than witty, more a wit than wise:
Read full poem →He said; when Shock, who thought she slept too long,
Leap'd up, and waked his mistress with his tongue.
'Twas then, Belinda, if report say true,