Read full poem →From forth a flameless pile:
But golden-girt November
Bids all she looks on smile.
Dictionary Entry
A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
Origin
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Common Phrases
round girt. girtgirt loinsgirt sea
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Poetry examples for “girt”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A commonweal arrayed and crowned
With gold and purple, girt with steel
At need, that foes must fear or feel,
Read full poem →Girt about with shadow, blind and lame,
Ghosts of things that smite and thoughts that sicken
Read full poem →Be patient with you?
When the snow-girt earth
Cracks to let through a spurt
Read full poem →Put on the whole armour of Grod — having your loins girt about with truth, and having on
the breast-plate of righteousness. — Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye snail
Read full poem →Mr. Seward also reprobates Hanmer's alteration ((f arm-^dunt to arm-girt; ** 1 suppose
(says he) he meant with arms or shoulders bound round with trappings. The expression is
Read full poem →Each crocodile was girt with massive gold
And polished stones that with their wearers grew:
Read full poem →Each crocodile was girt with massive gold
And polished stones, that with their wearers grew:
Read full poem →Elegian muse, that warblest amorous lays,
Girt my shine[132] brow with seabank myrtle sprays.[133] 30
Read full poem →Tibullus doth Elysium's joy inherit. 60
Their youthful brows with ivy girt to meet him,
With Calvus learned Catullus comes, and greet him;