Read full poem →While the stars, that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Dictionary Entry
A sparkle or glimmer of light
Origin
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Common Phrases
. twinklelittle twinkletwinkle merrytwinkle mischievoustwinkle eyestwinkle stars
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Poetry examples for “twinkle”
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Read full poem →While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Read full poem →Words like crystals breaking with a tinkle,
Or a star's twinkle.
Sometimes as we talk you rise
Read full poem →Or stand in courtly talk by fives and sevens:
Like those fair stars that twinkle in the heavens.
Yet must I tell a tale of chivalry:
Read full poem →He saw, on spray-swept Hebrides,
Twinkle the monastery-lights.
Read full poem →The wild air bloweth in our lungs,
The keen stars twinkle in our eyes,
The birds gave us our wily tongues,
Read full poem →When rising Phoebus first is seen,
And dew-drops twinkle o’er the lawn;
An’ she has twa sparkling roguish een.
Read full poem →The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack;
Thy knitted frame—thy springs and valves—the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels;
Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily-following,
Read full poem →Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line