Read full poem →2 'Secure the radiant weapons wield;
This golden lance shall guard desert;
And if a vice dares keep the field,
Dictionary Entry
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “lance”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In his well-turnèd, and true filèd lines;
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →In his well turned and true-filed lines:
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
Read full poem →Mars girts his deadly sword on for my harm;
Pallas' lance strikes me with unconquered arm;
At me Apollo bends his pliant bow;
Read full poem →While on the floor the quiet ashes fall,
And in the firelight to a lance extended,
Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended,
Read full poem →Believing a nation may act
Unselfishly—shiver a lance
(As the least of her sons may, in fact)
Read full poem →Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches,
Shivelights and shadowtackle in long ' lashes lace, lance, and pair.
Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ' ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare
Read full poem →When the spear in conflict shakes,
And the strong lance shivering breaks.
Read full poem →He wore before his breast
A lance that was poised in rest,
And it was sharper than diamond stone,
Read full poem →When the spear in conflict shakes,
And the strong lance shivering breaks.