Read full poem →Yet sacred keep his friendships, and his ease.
Blest peer! his great forefathers' every grace
Reflecting, and reflected in his race;
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Poetry examples for “forefathers”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Though the feet of thine high priests tread where thy lords and our
forefathers trod,
Though these that were Gods are dead, and thou being dead art a God,
Read full poem →Ye shall sleep as a slain man sleeps, and the world shall forget you for kings.
Though the feet of thine high priests tread where thy lords and our forefathers trod,
Though these that were Gods are dead, and thou being dead art a God,
Read full poem →And they knew not their forefathers, nor the hills and streams
And words of power,
Read full poem →graces. The greatest pleasure of an audience is a chase of wit kept up
on both sides, and swiitly managed : And this our forefathers (if not we)
have had in Fletcher's plays, to a much higher degree of perfection than
Read full poem →Her trembling mouth these unmeet sounds expresses:
"O would in my forefathers' tomb deep laid,
My bones had been while yet I was a maid:
Read full poem →The Bees -- will not despise the tune --
Their Forefathers -- have hummed --
Read full poem →WITH our forefathers, in nearly all the New England states, edu-
cation, from the first, was a subject of solicitous care. Provision
Read full poem →Son of God, in whom the writer of Hebrews exulted, "In the past God spoke to our
forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days
he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom
Read full poem →As wise as Solomon they read the news,
Not with their blind forefathers' simple views,
Who read of wars, and wished that wars would cease,
