Read full poem →A Sylph too warn'd me of the threats of Fate,
In mystic visions, now believed too late.
See the poor remnants of these slighted hairs!
Dictionary Entry
To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
In a Sentence
“I believe there are faeries.”
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Common Phrases
. believed
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Poetry examples for “believed”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →cients believed that the spleen was the seat of wrath, as the heart —
was that of love.
Read full poem →lectual progress of his times and expressed it in his poetry,
he believed sincerely that Art was “‘for Art—and Man’s—
sake,” and he looked with distrust and dislike at the zstheti-
Read full poem →If what we worship fail us, still the fire
Burns on, and it is much to have believed.
Read full poem →Some believed that he had been poisoned ;
but according to an account given in Dr,
Read full poem →We are most hopeless, who had once most hope,
And most beliefless, that had most believed.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust;
Read full poem →Utterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute,—wholly!
I, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,
Have to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.
Read full poem →If so, then I said, we had started for Como, and meant to
Cross the St. Gothard, and stay, we believed, at Lucerne, for the summer.
Was it wrong? and why, if it was, has it failed to bring him?
Read full poem →Where nothing is examined, weigh'd,
But as 'tis rumour'd, so believed;
Where every freedom is betray'd,
Read full poem →aiithor*s plays, has wrote under that poem the Maid in the Mill. This, I suppose, was a
marginal note of somebody who believed Beaumont to have been a joint author in that play.
It seems highly probable that he was so in both these plays, as the Lieutenant and Buitapha