Read full poem →Kno. You are a prodigal, absurd coxcomb : go to!
Nay, never look at me, it’s I that speak.
Dictionary Entry
A prodigal person, a spendthrift.
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Common Phrases
son prodigal. prodigalsons prodigaldaughter prodigal
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Poetry examples for “prodigal”
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Read full poem →"I will arise"
A Prodigal Son
Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde
Read full poem →r. Mor, The idle triumphs, masks, lascivious shows.
And prodigal gifts bestowed on Gaveston,*
Have drawn thy treasury dry, and made thee weak;
Read full poem →Why are we by all creatures waited on?
Why do the prodigal elements supply
Life and food to me, being more pure than I,
Read full poem →Why are we by all creatures waited on?
Why do the prodigal elements supply
Life and food to me, being more pure than I,
Read full poem →They run full sail to their Japonian mart;
Preventing fear, and prodigal of fame,
Sell all of Christian to the very name._--P. 179.
Read full poem →Dame Fortune should hing by the neck,
For prodigal, thriftless bestowing—
His merit had won him respect.
Read full poem →"O man! while in thy early years,
How prodigal of time!
Misspending all thy precious hours,
Read full poem →"How like a younger, or a prodigal,
The scarfed bark puts from her native bay," etc.
Read full poem →Prodigal, you have given me love--therefore I to you give love!
O unspeakable passionate love.