Read full poem →Then better shall I be,
To pay the vows which I do owe
Forever unto Thee.
Dictionary Entry
To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
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much owe
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Poetry examples for “owe”
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Read full poem →I owe so much, so little can
Return unto Thy name,
Read full poem →As I do give it, so must I beseech:
I owe all much, much more than I can pay;
Therefore it is I go; how could I stay
Read full poem →In the third, just at present I'm studying ancient marbles;
In the fourth, I consider I owe my life to my country;
In the fifth--I forget, but four good reasons are ample.
Read full poem →Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show,
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time!
Read full poem →Too mightv such monopoly of Fame :
Yet not to oirth alone didllomer owe
His wondrous worth ; what iEgypt could bestow.
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time!
Read full poem →CAMDEN! most reverend head, to whom I owe
All that I am in arts, all that I know—
Read full poem →thought complete without them; and to this humour
it is we owe (and perhaps it is all we owe it) the ini-
mitable masque of Cotnus by Milton, performed at
Read full poem →(viz. unhorsing them and that you owe him your duty