Read full poem →LIY. With rue my heart is laden . .
LY. Westward on the high-hilled plains
LVI. Far I hear the bugie blow. z =
Dictionary Entry
A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (1016 metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. lyly family developmentally lely ical
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Poetry examples for “ly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Black-2550| Archer CL r 5 6t 4
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Read full poem →T. Mor. But were he here, detested as he is.
How eas'ly might some base slave be suborned
To greet his lordship with a poniard,
Read full poem →ofe*s 541 tse j ms (its ait oat} duces
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Read full poem →(spattered)by this instant of semiluminous nausea A vast
wordless nondescript genie of trunk trickled firm- ly in to one
exactly-mutilated ghost of a chair,
Read full poem →So long I shot, that all was spent;
Then pumie stones I hast'ly hent,
And threw; but nought availed:
Read full poem →but _tree_ is an obvious misprint for _cofer_! In st. 5, the gerund _to
lie_ (Ch. _ly-e_) rimes with _honestie_ (Ch. _honestee_). This is quite
enough to condemn it. But it may be Lydgate's.