Read full poem →Comrade, look not on the west:
'Twill have the heart out of your breast;
'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far,
Dictionary Entry
A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.
Origin
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Common Phrases
weave twill. twillmake twilltape twillserve twillweaves twilltwill cottontwill diamond
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Poetry examples for “twill”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →— Twill do no harm to take my arm.
‘You may, young man, you may.’
Read full poem →And pick you posies gay?
-'Twill do no harm to take my arm.
"You may, young man, you may."
Read full poem →The throat across from ear to ear
'Twill bleed because of it."
Read full poem →Where doomsday may thunder and lighten
And little 'twill matter to one.
Read full poem →The gale, it plies the saplings double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Read full poem →And straight though reach the track,
Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,
The way will guide one back.
Read full poem →How shall I, then, your helpless fame defend?
'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend!
And shall this prize, the inestimable prize,
Read full poem →'Twill all be well: no need of care;
Though how it will, and when, and where,
Read full poem →Revivals too of unexpected change:
Haply thou think’st ’twill never be begun,
Or that ’t has come, and been, and passed away: