Read full poem →The quarries whence this dwelling rose.
Near to this gloomy cloister's gates
There dwelt the blooming vii^in Thwaites,
Dictionary Entry
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
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Poetry examples for “cloister”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The cloister outward shuts its gates,
Read full poem →The wasting cloister, with the rest^
Was, in one instant, dispossessed.
Read full poem →Near to this gloomy cloister's gates
There dwelt the blooming virgin Thwailes,
Read full poem →Better than well,
And aye hath, cloister'd, borne,
To the Clown's scorn,
Read full poem →Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Read full poem →Italy and France.
Camp and Cloister.
In a Gondola.
Read full poem →II. SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS 167
SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER 167
THE LABORATORY 168
Read full poem →A Martyr’s Epitaph.
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.
Holy-Cross Day.
Read full poem →Great Amurath, at my request, forsook
The cloister's ease, resum'd the tott'ring throne,
And snatch'd the reins of abdicated pow'r