Read full poem →Will not it too be past?—nor fail withal
To recognise the future in our hopes;
Unite them in your manhood each and all,
Dictionary Entry
To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
In a Sentence
“I recognised his face immediately.”
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Poetry examples for “recognise”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Whose sweet subdual of the world
The worldling scarce can recognise,
And ridicule, against it hurl’d,
Read full poem →The heart doth recognise thee,
Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet,
Read full poem →MS. only; most MSS. have _postremae_, the reading given by Obbarius, who
does not recognise the reading _postremo_).
Read full poem →The reader familiar with _Adonais_ will recognise the passages in that
poem of which we here have the originals. To avoid repetition, I do not
Read full poem →The Wise, and all who comprehend aright,
Will recognise that Higher in The Sage.
His the Prime Spirit that, spontaneously
Read full poem →And sanctifying by such discipline
Both pain and fear,--until we recognise
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.