Read full poem →_Mild monastic faces in quiet collegiate cloisters_:
So let me offer a single and celibatarian phrase, a
Dictionary Entry
A person with monastic ways; a monk.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “monastic”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Yet strength was pillared in each massy aisle.
Monastic dome! condemned to uses vile![w]
Where Superstition once had made her den
Read full poem →I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles
Read full poem →The deadliest sin her mind could reach
Was of monastic rule the breach;
And her ambition's highest aim
Read full poem →The deadliest sin her mind could reach
Was of monastic rule the breach;
And her ambition’s highest aim
Read full poem →How will her spirit chafe and swell!
How brook the stern monastic laws!
The penance how--and I the cause!-- 295