Read full poem →But heav'n reveals not what, or how, or where:
Warn'd by the Sylph, oh pious maid, beware!
This to disclose is all thy guardian can:
Dictionary Entry
Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.
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Common Phrases
man pious. piousmen piouspeople pioushope piousfraud pious
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Poetry examples for “pious”
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Read full poem →But heaven reveals not what, or how, or where:
Warn'd by the Sylph, oh, pious maid, beware!
This to disclose is all thy guardian can:
Read full poem →Laud's bad advice to Charles, "a prince
truly pious and religious " ; and of the Civil
War he said, " I think the cause was too good to
Read full poem →(~^ Hast, pious, prudent, C the Second,
Read full poem →Never was such a Faith's Defender,
lie like a politick Prince and Pious,
Read full poem →Will make me not forget,
Alas! I am not of that pious kind,
Who, when the blot has fallen upon their life,
Read full poem →pressions in confirmation of nis own sentiments.
But to come nearer our own times: — the truly pious
and learned archbishop Tillotson, speaking of plavs,
Read full poem →Lest sacred love your soul ensnare,
With pious fancy still infer
‘How loving and how lovely fair
Read full poem →With better gain a loss like yours.
Be pious! Give the beggar pelf,
And love your neighbour as yourself!
Read full poem →'Will a kind Providence our vessel whelm,
With such a pious Pilot at the helm?'
'Or let the throats be cut of pretty sheep