Dictionary Entry

maiden

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈmeɪdən/Used In Literature ↓

One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman

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name maiden. maidenvoyage maidenspeech maidenlane maidenmaiden youngmaiden beautifulmaiden little

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Poetry examples for “maiden”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

If at death's own door he lies,
Maiden, you can heal his ail.

If at death’s own door he lies,
Maiden, you can heal his ail.

For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

AN INDUSTRIOUS YOUNG MAN,
AND VIRTUOUS MAIDEN OF THIS PARISH;
WHO, BEING AT HARVEST-WORK

In shining draperies, headed like a star,
Her maiden babe, a double April old, 95
Aglaia slept. We sat: the Lady glanced :

Set the maiden fancies wallowing in the troughs of
Zolaism,—

The tyrant! kill him in the summer too,”
Said Lilia ; “ Why not now ?” the maiden Aunt.
“Why not a summer’s as a winter's tale ?

The midriff of despair with laughter, holp
To lace us up, till, each, in maiden plumes
We rustled : him we gave a costly bribe 200

A wonder enthroned on the hills and sea,
A maiden crowned with a fourfold glory
That none from the pride of her head may rend,