Crossword-Solution: UNCLOSES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

THE languid sunset, mother of roses, Lingers, a light on the magic seas, The wide fire flames, as a flower uncloses, Heavy with odour, and loose to the breeze.

Under its tender moistening touch his frame, desiccated in the tropics, seemed to open out, even as a withered flower uncloses its petals in water.

The Meteor showed the leaves on which we sate, And Cythna's glowing arms, and the thick ties Of her soft hair, which bent with gathered weight _2625 My neck near hers; her dark and deepening eyes, Which, as twin phantoms of one star that lies O'er a dim well, move, though the star reposes, Swam in our mute and liquid ecstasies, Her marble brow, and eager lips, like roses, _2630 With their own fragrance pale, which Spring but half uncloses.

Andrew Lang suggests in an exquisite little poem about the Homeric Phćacia--the land whose inhabitants were friends of the gods, a sort of heaven upon earth." And then she quoted: The languid sunset, mother of roses, Lingers, a light on the magic seas; The wide fire flames as a flower uncloses; Heavy with odour and loose to the breeze.

SWEET CHARMER.[1] _("L'aube naît et ta porte est close.")_ [XXIII., February, 18--.] Though heaven's gate of light uncloses, Thou stirr'st not--thou'rt laid to rest, Waking are thy sister roses, One only dreamest on thy breast.