Dictionary Entry

relics

That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.

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Common Phrases

. relicsrelics sacredrelics holy

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Poetry examples for “relics”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

While angels with their silver wings o'ershade
The ground, now sacred by thy relics made.

Thy relics, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust,
And sacred place by Dryden's awful dust:

Full of dead birds and dead insects and dead animals
And a few relics of the Romans--dead also.
There was the sea-front,

And stiperetidona, vainly feared ;
The relics false were set to view ;
Only the jewels there were true —

The relics of his muse, though not always pre-
eminent in point of genius, 'are yet so venerable on

_1862-1868_ After the relics of his school-poems follow the
poems written when an undergraduate at Oxford, of which

Full of dead birds and dead insects and dead animals
And a few relics of the Romans--dead also.
There was the sea-front,

Love's martyr, it might breed idolatry
If into others' hands these relics came;
As 'twas humility

Love's martyr, it might breed idolatry
If into others' hands these relics came;
As 'twas humility

Us to the bishop or the king,
To make us relics; then
Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I