Read full poem →Death only can such thieves make fast,
As rob, though in the dungeon cast.
Were there but, when this house was made.
Dictionary Entry
An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. dungeondungeon dark
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Poetry examples for “dungeon”
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Read full poem →Death only can such thieves make fast,
Aa rob, though io the dungeon csatt
Read full poem →And will not let you depart,
But put you down in the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
Read full poem →And an earthquake's arm of might
Broke their dungeon-gates at night.
Read full poem →So Hakon Jarl and his base thrall Karker
Crouched in the cave, than a dungeon darker,
As Olaf came riding, with men in mail,
Read full poem →But rusted with a vile repose,[b]
For they have been a dungeon's spoil,
And mine has been the fate of those
Read full poem →Our voices took a dreary tone,
An echo of the dungeon stone,
A grating sound, not full and free,
Read full poem →It was not night--it was not day; 240
It was not even the dungeon-light,
So hateful to my heavy sight,
Read full poem →Had followed there the deer and wolf;
To him this dungeon was a gulf,
And fettered feet the worst of ills.
Read full poem →Which round about the wave inthralls:
A double dungeon wall and wave
Have made--and like a living grave.