Read full poem →If aught remains of us but name and spirit,
Tibullus doth Elysium's joy inherit. 60
Their youthful brows with ivy girt to meet him,
Dictionary Entry
To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
In a Sentence
“Your descendants will inherit the earth.”
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Common Phrases
. inheriteternal inheritproperty inherit
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Poetry examples for “inherit”
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Read full poem →And pride, what have I now with thee?
Another brow may ev’n inherit
The venom thou hast poured on me
Read full poem →With a dreaming eye!
Let none of earth inherit
That vision on my spirit;
Read full poem →And pride, what have I now with thee?
Another brow may ev'n inherit
The venom thou hast poured on me--
Read full poem →Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolue.
Read full poem →His sons, which none of his may be,
Inherit nothing but his infamy;
Or may he so long parasites have fed,
Read full poem →Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse,
A mighty lesson we inherit:
Thou art a symbol and a sign
Read full poem →And theirs was the wealth and the fulness of Fame,
And mine to inherit too haughty a name;[r]
And theirs were the times and the triumphs of yore,
Read full poem →It flutter'd and fail'd for breath.
To-night it doth inherit
The vasty hall of death.
Read full poem →Roamed, ere birth, the treasuries of God;
Saw the gifts, the powers it might inherit,
Asked an outfit for its earthly road.