Dictionary Entry

pyre

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈpaɪɚ/Used In Literature ↓

A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.

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Common Phrases

. pyrepyre funeralpyre burningpyre greatpyre blazingpyre flamingpyre huge

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Poetry examples for “pyre”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And all the trophies of his former loves;
With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre,
And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire.

With sad face set towards the year, that sees
The charred ash drop out of the dropping pyre,
And winter wan with many maladies;

The slow delicious bright soft blood,
Bathing the spices and the pyre,
Bathing the flowers and fallen fire,

Of old discarded shards, his fire
A peddler's; still to him the pyre
Is incensed, an enduring goal!

Art Thou?
Thou art not Amor; or, if so, yon pyre,
That waits the willing victim, flames with vestal fire;

bale > torment; infliction of death; _also, mainly in northern
usage_: great consuming fire, funeral pyre; _hence,
perhaps_: hell-fire

For 't was the mom : Apollo's upward fire
Made every eastern cloud a silvery pyre
Of brightness so unsullied, that therein

'Till kindle in that monumental fire
His sunflower wings their own funereal pyre?

Of unjust Fortune were for once too short.
Oh would to God that when I lit the Pyre
The Flame had left Thee Living and me Dead,