Read full poem →Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
Dictionary Entry
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
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Poetry examples for “wink”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Catch at to-day, forget the days before:
I'll wink at your untruth.
Read full poem →Catch at today, forget the days before:
I'll wink at your untruth.
Read full poem →And being justified by two words, think
The cause acquits you not, but I[447] that wink. 50
Read full poem →together eyes pout gestures stickily point made glints squinting who’s
a wink bum-nothing and money fuzzily mouths take big wobbly foot-steps
every goggle cent of it get out ears dribbles soft right old feller
Read full poem →And you say nothing of them. Very well.
I wonder if all history's worth a wink,
Sometimes, or if my tale be one to tell.
Read full poem →For baffled lovers, and to make him think --
Before she gave him time enough to wink --
Sin's kisses were the keys to Paradise.
Read full poem →I'll lean upon her breast and I'll whisper in her ear
That I cannot get a wink o'sleep for thinking of my dear;
I hunger at my meat and I daily fade away
Read full poem →Why shouldst thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long.
Read full poem →And all his priesthood moans,
Before young Bacchus' eye-wink turning pale.
Into these regions came I, following him,
