Read full poem →And Ireland, mother of sweet singers,
Presents her harp still to his fingers.
The feast, his towering genius marks
Dictionary Entry
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
Origin
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Common Phrases
. harpharp sacredharp aeolian
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Poetry examples for “harp”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →This to my friend--and when a friend inspires, 75
My silent harp its master's hand requires;
Shakes off the dust, and makes these rocks resound;
Read full poem →Anp PELLEAS OVERTHREW THEM ONE BY ONE
THEN TRISTRAM LAUGHING CAUGHT THE HARP, AND SANG
THEN SHE STRETCH’D OUT HER ARMS AND CRIED ALOUD
Read full poem →Dried up? lies Thespia waste?
Doth Clarius’ harp want strings,
That not a nymph now sings;
Read full poem →The sun turned back from Atreus' cursed table? 39
And sweet-touched harp that to move stones was able?
Poets' large power is boundless and immense,
Read full poem →Who'll set the fair-tressed Sun in battle-ray
While Mars doth take the Aonian harp to play?
Great are thy kingdoms, over-strong and large,
Read full poem →And what poor Dido, with her drawn sword sharp,
Doth say, with her that loved the Aonian harp.
As[328] soon as from strange lands Sabinus came,
Read full poem →Where[411] Linus by his father Phoebus laid,
To sing with his unequalled harp is said.
See Homer from whose fountain ever filled
Read full poem →And taught the wayward soul to yearn.
It was as if a harp with wires
Was traversed by the breath I drew;