wreathe

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A hundred waxen tapers shine From silver sconces; softly pine 'Cello, fiddle, mandoline, To music deftly wooed — And dancers in cambric, satin, silk, With glancing hair and cheeks like milk, Wreathe, curtsey, intertwine.

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

Wreathe pride now for his granite brow, lay love on his breast of stone.

From Gloucester Moors and Other Poems by Moody, William Vaughn

Alfred Austin Biggs, of Texas, voiced the same idea when he said: “‘Crown me not with spinach, Wreathe me not with hay; Place no salad on my head When you bring the bay.

From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by Bangs, John Kendrick

Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear!

From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Schiller, Friedrich

And some—who bear a flag unfurled—    Wreathe with their rose the flag they bear, And sing their banner for the world,    And for their heart the roses there.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar