Read full poem →Amidst their virtues a reserve of vice. 20
The godly dame, who fleshly failings damns,
Scolds with her maid, or with her chaplain crams.
Dictionary Entry
Of or pertaining to a god
In a Sentence
“her godly powers = her superhuman powers”
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “godly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Hum half a tune, tell stories to the 'squire;
Up to her godly garret after seven,
There starve and pray, for that's the way to heaven.
Read full poem →These are the talents that adorn them all,
From wicked Waters ev'n to godly Paul.
Not more of simony beneath black gowns,
Read full poem →Who cause the proud their visits to delay,
And send the godly in a pet to pray;
A nymph there is, that all thy power disdains,
Read full poem →Is dead; all fowls her exequies frequent!
Go godly[266] birds, striking your breasts, bewail,
And with rough claws your tender cheeks assail.
Read full poem →By secret thoughts to think there is a God.
Live godly, thou shalt die; though honour heaven,
Yet shall thy life be forcibly bereaven.
Read full poem →I ought to admire much more, not less
Her beauty was a godly grace;
The mystery of loveliness,
Read full poem →quintillions of incredible
dodderingly godly toothless
always-so-much-interested-
Read full poem →To God, and so to his religion.
There must thou fashion eke a godly zeal,
Such as no carpers may contrare reveal;
Read full poem →For this same night. The knight was well content:
So with that godly father to his home they went.
