Read full poem →What, though no sacred earth allow thee room,
Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb?
Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dress'd,
Dictionary Entry
(obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
Origin
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Common Phrases
eve hallow. hallowgod hallow
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Poetry examples for “hallow”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Delight no more--O Thou my voice inspire
Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!
Read full poem →Whence in the shadow of the dying sun,
She contemplated Hallow’s wooden mill.
Read full poem →Of thy great grace and my great jeopardee,
Great Neptune, I avow to hallow unto
thee!’
Read full poem →And joyn thy voice unto the Angel Quire,
From out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire.
Read full poem →The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
Read full poem →to it in a note. Thus I have not recorded such blunders as Lethian for
Lesbian in the 1645 text of Lycidas, line 63; or hallow for hollow in
Paradise Lost, vi. 484; but I have noted content for concent, in At a
Read full poem →Some hour propitious to our prayers may boast
Names such as hallow still the dome we lost. 30
On Drury first your Siddons' thrilling art
Read full poem →But they have made them lovelier, for the lore
Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core
Of human hearts the ruin of a wall
Read full poem →The raptures of the bridal night?
Need we intrude on hallow'd ground,
Or draw the curtains closed around?