Read full poem →And all his projects stand informed with art)
Here clear the caves, there ope the leading vein;
The mines detected flame with gold again.
Dictionary Entry
A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
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Common Phrases
. veinthrombosis veinvein portalvein similarvein jugularvein samevein saphenousvein renal
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Poetry examples for “vein”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Lockhart, the son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, at that time editor
of The Quarterly ; and in a more earnest and generous vein, by
John Stuart Mill, in The Westminster, July, 1885.
Read full poem →The pulse's pause and measure,
Where in one furtive vein
Throbs through the heart of pleasure
Read full poem →Returning, or as blood revived anew
To dry-drawn limbs and every pulseless vein,
Even so toward us should no man be but you.
Read full poem →'I'll lKi!>i;ain, went tliimce with a holy llame.
llr'f III your praise too, that '^ your stock and vein
1 Irld both to tragic and to cxniiic strain j
Read full poem →Why should it not be rather joy that so
Throbs in each throbbing vein?
Read full poem →My soul fleets[441] when I think what you have done,
And thorough[442] every vein doth cold blood run.
Then thee whom I must love, I hate in vain,
Read full poem →His art excelled, although his wit was weak.
For ever lasts high Sophocles' proud vein,
With sun and moon Aratus shall remain.
Read full poem →Which Love shall round her weave:
The pulse in that vein making alien pause
And varying beats from this;
Read full poem →He had put, within his reach,
A box of counters and a red-vein'd stone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach