Read full poem →And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the forsaken west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
Dictionary Entry
To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. forsakenforsaken thou
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Poetry examples for “forsaken”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To what new clime, what distant sky,
Forsaken, friendless, shall ye fly?
Say, will ye bless the bleak Atlantic shore,
Read full poem →Ah, for their sakes, so trapped and taken,
For theirs, forgotten and forsaken,
Watch, sleep not, gird thyself with prayer.
Read full poem →And all disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken,
Blind buds that snows have shaken,
Read full poem →O well-beloved, our brethren, if ye be,
Then are we not forsaken. This kind earth
Made fragrant once for all time with your birth,
Read full poem →Then is the Poets time, 'tis then he drawes,
And single fights forsaken Vertues cause.
He, when the wheel of Empire, whirleth back,
Read full poem →allusion to the same story. In the Maid's Tragedy, Aspatia in like man-
ner forsaken by her lover, finds her maid Antiphila working a picture of
Ariadne; and after several fine reflections upon Theseus, says;
Read full poem →Lo, she hath made her bed
In dust; forsaken weepeth she
Where alien rivers swell the sea.
Read full poem →Lest an evil step be taken,--
Lest the dead who is forsaken
May not be happy now.