Dictionary Entry

pledge

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/plɛdʒ/Used In Literature ↓

A solemn promise to do something.

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. pledgethemselves pledge

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Poetry examples for “pledge”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

We pledge in peace by farm and town
The Queen they served in war,

And our long walks were stripped as bare as brooms,
We did but talk you over, pledge you all
In wassail ; often, like as many girls—

Three times thrice, in wine of song full-flowing,
Pledge, my heart, the child whose eyes suffice,
Once beheld, to set thy joy-bells going

Some jewel to thy diadem of power,
Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

DRINK to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

A love-letter pledge to come again.

If you had turned his pockets out,
You had found some pledge of love."--
"I met him at this daybreak,

Though 'tis the heat, the fire 'tis not:
And who, for such a feint, would pledge
The babe's and woman's privilege,