Read full poem →And along the utmost rim
Wall and rampart risen to sight
Cast a shadow not of night,
Dictionary Entry
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “risen”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →race of men ;
Have we risen from out the beast, then back into
Read full poem →Winds have risen to wreck, snows fallen to cumber,
Ships and chariots, trapped like rats or mice,
Read full poem →If a perfume be left, if a bloom,
Let it live till Italia be risen,
To be strewn in the dust of her car
Read full poem →And the guards by it keeping it we beheld asleep,
But thou wast risen.
Read full poem →With a terror and wonder whose core was joy, and a passion of thought set free,
Felt inly the rising of doom divine as a sundawn risen to sight
From the depths of the sea.
Read full poem →Years have risen and fallen in darkness or in twilight,
Ages waxed and waned that knew not thee nor thine,
Read full poem →Like sunrise never wholly risen, nor yet
Quenched; or like sunset never wholly set,
Read full poem →And thine, most highest of all their fires but one,
Our morning star, sole risen before the sun.
Read full poem →And one light risen since theirs to run such race
Thou hast seen, O Phosphor, from thy pride of place.
