Read full poem →by the divine right of the only lover. He has sworn to fight her lord,
and wed her after. Should he be overborne, she will die adoring him, forlorn,
shriven by her great love.
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “adoring”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Who calleth?--Thy Lord God calleth.
Fall, O Creature, adoring Him:
He is jealous, thy God Almighty,
Read full poem →Adoring God in His new mystery
Of Love more deep than bell, more strong than death;
Read full poem →Were seen no more: the very roses' odors
Died in the arms of the adoring airs.
All--all expired save thee--save less than thou:
Read full poem →When Chloris to the temple comes,
Adoring crowds before her fall;
She can restore the dead from tombs,
Read full poem →Knelt Astrid the Abbess,
At midnight, adoring,
Beseeching, entreating
Read full poem →When Chloris to the temple comes,
Adoring crowds before her fall;
She can restore the dead from tombs,
Read full poem →I cannot your light, mazy footsteps attend;
Nor listen to accents, that almost adoring,
Bless Cynthia's face, the enthusiast's friend:
Read full poem →Of Sensual Taint, and therefore call'd Salámán.
And who Absál?—The Lust-adoring Body,
Slave to the Blood and Sense—through whom The Soul,
