glisten

Example Sentences

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Glisten is not found in Shakes. or Milton, but both use glister several times.

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert

Listen, Listen, listen, listen Glisten, glisten, glisten, glisten And hear my Lullaby!

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

She stands again by a garden wall, The peach tree is in bloom, pink blossoms fall, Water sings from an opened tap, the bees Glisten and murmur among the trees.

From The House of Dust; a symphony by Aiken, Conrad

But the rows of dark mouths that have spoken   Defiance with sulphurous breath, Glisten black, stretching forth in the silence,   And in vain ask the presence of death.

From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland

Soon shall grass, a-vrosted bright, Glisten white instead o' green, An' the wind shall smite the cows, Where the boughs be now their screen.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William