Read full poem →ouketi Phoibos echei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen,
ou pagan laleousan; apesbeto kai lalon hudor.]
Dictionary Entry
A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.
In a Sentence
“This community has a surprising number of pagans.”
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Poetry examples for “pagan”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And some called it the resurrection flower;
And I, a pagan, worshiped at its shrine,
Yielding my heart unto its perfumed power.
Read full poem →And some called it the resurrection flower;
And I, a pagan, worshiped at its shrine,
Yielding my heart unto its perfumed power.
Read full poem →THE DANCE OF LOVE 19
PAGAN PRAYER 20
WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS 22
Read full poem →And closed scar, o'ercushion'd deep with moss;
Bunch'd all about with pagan mistletoe;
And thick with nests of the hoarse bird
Read full poem →Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit.
As if a shipwrecked Pagan, safe in port,
His guardian sea-god to commemorate,
Read full poem →That ushers in the fray, and ends the curse
And seals the doom of those foul pagan pests
That long have plagued our land.
Read full poem →dialectical to be popular, for the poem is in few Anthologies. It may
be that the Pagan and Christian strains which the poet unites are not
perfectly blended--if it is possible to do so--but to me it seems that
