Read full poem →Saw only them until the moon went down.
What wild heart-histories seemed to lie unwritten
Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!
Dictionary Entry
The aggregate of past events.
In a Sentence
“History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. historieshistories casehistories lifehistories oralhistories familyhistories personalhistories general
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Poetry examples for “histories”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And let their Reason dictate to their Will,
Instead of Novels, Histories peruse,
And for their Guides the wiser Ancients chuse,
Read full poem →Thou art so truth that thoughts of thee suffice
To make dreams truths, and fables histories.
Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best
Read full poem →On that fatal day,
The histories say,
Seventy vessels
Read full poem →"The Bible does not contain many histories but one history— the one history of
God’s constantly advancing revelation, the one history of God's ever progressing
Read full poem →And like a Goth and Vandal rise,
Deface records and histories
Of your own arts and triumphs over men,
Read full poem →Thou art so truth that thoughts of thee suffice
To make dreams truths, and fables histories.
Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid of the Inn'byJohn Keats
Read full poem →Philosophic numbers smooth;
Tales and golden histories
Of heaven and its mysteries.
Read full poem →his dramas and poems, long extracts from old chronicles, from Plutarch's
_Lives_, from French and Italian histories, which he had read himself,
and, as he fondly believed, would be read by others, who were willing to
Read full poem →England historical and genealogical societies, town,
county, and church records and histories, Colonial and
State papers, secured from town and church clerks spe-