Dictionary Entry

isle

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/aɪ̯l/Used In Literature ↓

A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.

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Common Phrases

. isleroyale islede isleaux isleisle belleisle presqueisle emeraldisle fair

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Poetry examples for “isle”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

This nymph, compress'd by him who rules the day,
Whom Delphi and the Delian isle obey,
Andraemon loved; and, bless'd in all those charms

Oh, had I rather unadmired remain'd
In some lone isle, or distant northern land;
Where the gilt chariot never marks the way,

11.
His isle, the mightiest Ocean-power on earth,
Our own fair isle, the lord of every sea—

Sons and brothers that have sent,
From isle and cape and continent,
Produce of your field and flood,

Who loved one only and who clave to her—’
Her—over all whose realms to their last isle,
Commingled with the gloom of imminent war,

got ^40,000 at Guinea: Governor of
the Isle of Wight.

One king, one faith, one lajiguage, and one isle,
English and Scotch, 'tis all but cross and pile.

That innocence and beauty which did smile
In Fletcher, grew on this enchanted isle.'*

Ere my sweet Gaveston shall part from me.
This isle shall fleet upon the ocean.
And wander to the unfrequented Inde. 50

And some, that she refrained tears, have denied.
Yet better is't, than if Corcyra's Isle,
Had thee unknown interred in ground most vile.