Read full poem →Full of the stately repose and the lordly delight of the dead,
Where the fortunate islands are lit with the light of ineffable faces,
And the sound of a sea without wind is about them, and sunset is
Dictionary Entry
Beyond expression in words; unspeakable.
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Poetry examples for “ineffable”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →(Violent say’st thou and hard, mighty thou think’st to destroy),
All with ineffable longing are waiting their Invader,
All, with one varying voice, call to him, Come and subdue;
Read full poem →strokes of Milton and Shakespeare are hut as rays of the iiiid-day sun, when compared to that
ineffable inconceivable lustre which surrounds the throne of God. When the zeal of religion
ran high, and a collection of far the noblest poems that were ever wrote in the world, those of
Read full poem →Are Winter's sometime smiles, that seem to well
From infancy ineffable;
Her wandering, languorous gaze,
Read full poem →In the choiring that silence affords
Of ineffable voices.
Read full poem →For churls and sluggards; and I knew the scar
Upon their brows of woe ineffable.
Read full poem →We blush, that Heaven if we achieve --
Event ineffable --
We shall have shunned until ashamed
Abt Vogler: After he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his inventionbyRobert Browning
Read full poem →Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed,--
Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name,
And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved!
Read full poem →But, lo! in the far sky shone a radiance
Ineffable, divine,--
A vision painted upon a pall;
Read full poem →that poem in his mind when he wrote these lines,
to ridicule what he calls "that ineffable Octo-
grammaton, the power of laziness."