Read full poem →There was no sound but long tears following
Long tears upon men's faces, waxen white
With extreme sad delight.
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Poetry examples for “waxen”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Such stormy stoures do breed my baleful smart,
As if my year were waste and waxen old;
And yet, alas! but now my spring begun,
Read full poem →To stayed steps; for time in passing wears,
(As garments do, which waxen old above,)
And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
Read full poem →To doubted knights, whose woundless armour rusts,
And helms unbruised waxen daily brown.
Read full poem →Infirm of soul! who think'st to lift thy name
Upon the waxen wings of human fame,--
Who for a sound, articulated breath--
Read full poem →It is this darkness reveals that which darkness alone
loosens and sets spinning on waxen wings--
not the touch of a finger-tip, not the motion