Read full poem →Sermons I sought, and with a mien severe
Censured my neighbours, and said daily prayer.
Alas, how changed! with this same sermon-mien,
Dictionary Entry
A practice of communicating with one's God.
In a Sentence
“Through prayer I ask for God's blessings.”
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “prayer”
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Read full poem →He sung, and hell consented
To hear the poet's prayer:
Stern Proserpine relented,
Read full poem →But having cast his cowl, and left those laws,
Adds to Christ's prayer, the Power and Glory clause.
Read full poem →Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize:
The powers gave ear, and granted half his prayer,
The rest, the winds dispersed in empty air.
Read full poem →There again I stood to-day, and where of old we
knelt in prayer,
Close beneath the casement crimson with the shield
Read full poem →For theirs, forgotten and forsaken,
Watch, sleep not, gird thyself with prayer.
Nay, where the heart of wrath is broken,
Read full poem →"Shining and distant Goddess, hear my prayer
Where you swim in the high air!
Read full poem →It is a quiet sound,
Calling to prayer,
Hardly scattering the stillness,
Read full poem →Below, I know the church is bright
With haloed tapers, warm with prayer;
But here I only feel the air
Read full poem →Beware!
Prostrate your soul in penitential prayer,
Humble your heart beneath the mighty hand