Read full poem →A Blockhead:
"There are non, ever. As a monk who prays"
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Dictionary Entry
A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
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Common Phrases
. monkmonk buddhistmonk youngmonk benedictinemonk oldmonk general
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Poetry examples for “monk”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Covers the formless heap. Reprieves, delays,
There are none, ever. As a monk who prays
The sliding beads asunder, so I thrust
Read full poem →Worm-eaten pages, clasped in old brown vellum, shrunk
From over-handling, by some anxious monk.
Or Virgin's Hours, bright with gold and graven
Read full poem →and yet nothing is more certain, if we believe an ho-
nest monk, one William Stepbanides, or FitzStephen,
in- his Dexcriptio nobilissimee Civiiaiis Londoma ?,
Read full poem →Monk marched with his army out of Scotland towards
London, Mr. Rhodes, a bookseller, who had formerly
Read full poem →Chaucer’s Tale of Melibœus
The Monk’s Tale
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Read full poem →# 22 - The Monk’s Tale - 00:47:29
Read by: Andy Minter
Read full poem →Chaucer’s Tale of Melibœus
The Monk’s Tale
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Read full poem →Review, The New York Tmfes, Partisan Review, and Sewanee Review. Introduc-
tion to The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis is reprinted with the permission of the
Grove Press, copyright © 1952 by Grove Press, Inc. ‘‘Stephen Crane’s The Red