Read full poem →When Kings, Queens, Knaves, are set in decent rank;
Exposed in glorious heaps the tempting bank,
Guineas, half-guineas, all the shining train;
Dictionary Entry
Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory.
In a Sentence
“glorious deeds”
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Origin
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Common Phrases
. gloriousrevolution gloriousday gloriousvictory gloriouspast gloriousfuture glorious
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “glorious”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Though with the Stoic chief our stage may ring,
The Stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
Read full poem →Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of angels and of gods:
Thence to their images on earth it flows,
Read full poem →Or deeming meanest what we greatest call,
Behold thee glorious only in thy fall.
Read full poem →O'er death and o'er hell,
A conquest how hard and how glorious!
Though fate had fast bound her
Read full poem →The chariot now the painful steep ascends,
The paeans cease; thy glorious labour ends.
Here fixed, the bright eternal temple stands,[18]
Read full poem →'Our humbler province is to tend the fair,
Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care;
To save the powder from too rude a gale,
Read full poem →Adieu, my children! better thus expire
Unstall'd, unsold; thus glorious mount in fire,
Fair without spot; than greased by grocer's hands,
Read full poem →So sang the gallant glorious chronicle ;
And, IJ all rapt in this, “ Come out,” he said, 50
Read full poem →Was as one flower in a great multitude,
One glorious flower of many and glorious,
One day found gracious among many days: