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Definition of Love-lies-bleeding
1. Noun. Young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal.
Definition of Love-lies-bleeding
1. Noun. A tropical plant, ''Amaranthus caudatus'', that has clusters of little red flowers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Love-lies-bleeding
Literary usage of Love-lies-bleeding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones (1918)
"THE FLOWER OF LOVE LIES BLEEDING I met a little maid one day, All in the bright
May weather; She danced, and brushed the dew away As lightly as a feather. ..."
2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE FLOWER OF LOVE LIES BLEEDING All in the bright May weather; She danced, and
brushed the dew away I met a little maid one day, As lightly as a feather. ..."
3. Sonnets of this Century by William Sharp (1886)
"LOVE LIES BLEEDING. LOVE that is dead and buried, yesterday Out of his grave rose
up before my face, No recognition in his look, no trace Of memory in his ..."
4. American Familiar Verse, Vers de Société by Brander Matthews (1904)
"... Whom fairies were misleading: " Whose butterfly," I said, " are you? And what
sweet thing do you pursue ? " — " The flower of love lies bleeding ! ..."
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