Read full poem →And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Dictionary Entry
A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.
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Poetry examples for “eremite”
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Read full poem →And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Read full poem →"And now, my love, my seraph fair, awake!
Thou art my heaven, and I thine eremite:
Open thine eyes, for meek St. Agnes' sake,
Read full poem →The Dedication, To Ianthe.
Stanza xxvii. "More blest the life of godly Eremite,"--
Stanza lxxvii. "The city won for Allah from the Giaour,"--
Read full poem →Then loathed he in his native land to dwell,
Which seemed to him more lone than Eremite's sad cell.
Read full poem →story or a part of it is told by a fellow-seaman of Columbus, who had
turned "eremite" in his old age, and though the narrative itself is in
heroic verse, the prologue and epilogue, as they may be termed, are in
Read full poem →More blest the life of godly Eremite,
Such as on lonely Athos may be seen,