Read full poem →Fantastic, vain, and insolently fair,
Grandeur intoxicates her giddy brain,
She looks ambition, and she moves disdain.
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The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
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Poetry examples for “grandeur”
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Read full poem →Dims from our vision, but each night brings back;
We strive to hold their grandeur, and essay
To be the thing we dream. Sudden we lack
Read full poem →of the principal beauties of a horse, and the epithet has, from the uncommon uac of oither
part of the compound word in this sense, an antique dignity and grandeur in sound that poets
much delight in.*' Edwards tneers at this 3 but surely Mr, Seward's argument is judidous ']
Read full poem →Amid thy shadows, and so drink within
My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory!
Read full poem →The love, the grandeur, and the fame
Are bounded by the world alone;
Read full poem →THE world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
Read full poem →and indulgencies, which are so much inconsistent with the flourishing
trade and grandeur of the nation. As for the engagements of lives and
fortunes, the common compliment of addressers, we confess we have a
Read full poem →compliments and reluctancies, was decently toppled from all his
grandeur, into the impartial flames; the crafty devil leaving his
infallibilityship in the lurch, and laughing as heartily at his
Read full poem →His grandeur he derived from heaven alone;
For he was great, ere fortune made him so:
Read full poem →Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
