Read full poem →Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
Dictionary Entry
One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
Origin
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Common Phrases
catholic romanempire romancatholics romanlaw romanchurch romanemperor romanroman holyroman old
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Poetry examples for “roman”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →There was a legend that Romulus never died, but had been caught up to
the skies in a storm. Proculus, a Roman senator, said that Romulus had
descended from heaven and spoken to him and then ascended again (Livy,
Read full poem →To bear too tender, or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky,
Read full poem →Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim,
Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame?
In living medals see her wars enroll'd,
Read full poem →Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim,
Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame?
In living medals see her wars enrolled,
Read full poem →He bids your breasts with ancient ardour rise,
And calls forth Roman drops from British eyes.
Virtue confess'd in human shape he draws,
Read full poem →He bids your breasts with ancient ardour rise,
And calls forth Roman drops from British eyes.
Virtue confess'd in human shape he draws,
Read full poem →Worse than the wolves. And King Leodogran
Groan’d for the Roman legions here again,
And Cezsar’s eagle: then his brother king,
Read full poem →~ Clelia, Cornelia, with the Palmyrene
_ That fought Aurelian, and the Roman brows 70
Of Agrippina. Dwell with these, and lose
Read full poem →In the quiet sunshine.
And still is the old Roman wall,
Rough with jagged bits of flint,