glisten
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Glisten, O fragrant earth Assoiled by heaven anew, And O, ye lovers, listen, With eyes that glisten, too.
From The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems by Nichols, Spencer Baird
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
Glisten, glis′n, v.i. to glitter or sparkle with light: to shine.—n. glitter.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
His lordly ships of ice Glisten in the sun; On each side, like pennons wide, Flashing crystal streamlets run.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence
She drips herself with water, and her shoulders Glisten as silver, they crumple up Like wet and falling roses, and I listen For the sluicing of their rain-dishevelled petals.
From Look! We Have Come Through! by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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