Read full poem βAnd all that rich scene wrapt in gold,
Faded in airβa lovely vision!
And I awoke, but oh! to me
Dictionary Entry
vision
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ΛvΙͺ.Κ(Ι)n/Word FrequencyNot availableCurriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature βThe sense or ability of sight.
In a Sentence
βStudents can use vision to explain The sense or ability of sight..β
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Poetry examples for βvisionβ
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Read full poem βFrom the depths of the sea.
As a vision of heaven from the hollows of ocean, that none but a god might see,
Rose out of the silence of things unknown of a presence, a form, a might,
Read full poem βIn a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
Read full poem βWe may think so from the quickening of his bloom and of his breath.
Vision unto vision calleth,
While the young child dreameth on.
Read full poem βBy the high altar, singing prayer and prayer
To the higher Heavens. A noble vision free
Our Haydon's hand has flung out from the mist:
Read full poem βOurselves were wed one summer -- dear --
Your Vision -- was in June --
And when Your little Lifetime failed,
Read full poem βWas gifted with the wondrous powers,
Lost vision to restore.
It gave new strength, and fearless mood;
Read full poem βIn the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:βDo I wake or sleep?
Read full poem βMy love first came into my sight,
O perfect vision of delight,
O the glad dove has golden wings!
Read full poem βAs then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed
Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne'er have striven
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.