Dictionary Entry

pomp

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈpɒmp/Used In Literature ↓

Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.

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Common Phrases

. pomppomp greatpomp much

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Poetry examples for “pomp”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

A vain, unquiet, glittering, wretched thing!
Pride, pomp, and state but reach her outward part:
She sighs, and is no duchess at her heart.

But if to power and place your passion lie,
If in the pomp of life consist the joy;
Then hire a slave, or (if you will) a lord

Great Sheffield's[16] muse the long procession heads,
And throws a lustre o'er the pomp she leads;
First gives the palm she fired him to obtain, 5

E'en when proud Caesar, 'midst triumphal cars,
The spoils of nations, and the pomp of wars,
Ignobly vain, and impotently great,

Even when proud Caesar, 'midst triumphal cars,
The spoils of nations, and the pomp of wars,
Ignobly vain and impotently great,

Foul dust, from her fair body go away!
Now comes the pomp; themselves let all men cheer;[355]
The shout is nigh; the golden pomp comes here.

Here, when the pipe with solemn tunes doth sound,
The annual pomp goes on the covered[430] ground.
White heifers by glad people forth are led,

For her the seas their pearls reveal;
Art and strange lands her pomp supply
With purple, chrome, and cochineal,

Of the glad Palace of Virginity,
May gaze within, and sing the pomp I see;
For, crown'd with roses all,

Of lofty contemplation left to Time
By buried centuries of pomp and power!
At length--at length--after so many days