Read full poem →And to Scilly's rocky shore;
And the hermit's cavern dismal,
Christ's great name and rites baptismal,
Dictionary Entry
A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “hermit”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Its delicate blossoms to the dew;
And, shunning-hermit of the light,
Wastes its fair bloom upon the night;
Read full poem →That such as touched jerk up in bouncing springs,
Soon the little hermit tries to pass,
His carcass on the gibbet hings.
Read full poem →of the circumstance."—Percy. CONTENTS PAGE The Traveller 1 The Deserted
Village 29 The Hermit 57 The Captivity 67 The Haunch of Venison 85
Retaliation 91 The Double Transformation 99 The Gift to Iris 104 The
Read full poem →And calm Religion shall repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there.
Truth, Fortitude, and Friendship shall agree
Read full poem →I have thought it thoroughly over,--
State of hermit, state of lover;
We must have society,
Read full poem →Till the poor is wealthy grown,
And the hermit never alone,--
The traveller and the road seem one
Read full poem →In old Bassora's schools, I seemed
Hermit vowed to books and gloom,--
Ill-bestead for gay bridegroom.
Read full poem →There the red morning touched him with its light.
Three moons his great heart him a hermit made,
So long he roved at will the boundless shade.
Read full poem →And all their striving turned to sin. 50
Priest, doctor, hermit, monk grown white
With prayer, the broken-hearted nun,