Dictionary Entry

lord

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /lɔːd/Used In Literature ↓

The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor

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Poetry examples for “lord”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The immortal bones obey control

Rose to render key and sword
To their father and their lord.
And the portress foul to see

EPISTLE III.[20]--TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST.

Where one lean herring furnish'd Cotta's board,
And nettles grew, fit porridge for their lord;
Where mad good-nature, bounty misapplied,

That knotty point, my lord, shall I discuss
Or tell a tale!--A tale.--It follows thus.

Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel
A well-bred Lord t' assault a gentle Belle?
O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd,

Whole years neglected, for some months adored,
The fawning servant turns a haughty lord.
Ah, quit not the free innocence of life,

If in the pomp of life consist the joy;
Then hire a slave, or (if you will) a lord
To do the honours, and to give the word;

ERECTED BY THEIR FATHER THE LORD DIGBY, IN THE CHURCH OF SHERBORNE, IN
DORSETSHIRE, 1727.

15 'Let Warwick's Muse with Ashurst join,
And Ozell's with Lord Hervey's,
Tickell and Addison combine,