Read full poem →Close at the boundary of the liberties ; 170
There, enter’d an old hostel, call’d mine host
To council, plied him with his richest wines,
Dictionary Entry
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
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Poetry examples for “hostel”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The scattered lamps a moment gleamed,
And the illumined hostel seemed
The constellation of the Bear,
Read full poem →“She wedded.”—“Ah!”—“Wedded beneath her—
She keeps the stage-hostel
Ten miles hence, beside the great Highway—
Read full poem →Soon by the chimney’s merry blaze,
Through the rude hostel might you gaze;
Might see, where, in dark nook aloof,
