Read full poem →The long cloud and the single pine
Sentinel the ending line,
And out beyond it, clear and wan,
Dictionary Entry
A sentry, watch, or guard.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sentinel”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"At hell gate the damned in turn
Pace for sentinel and burn."
Read full poem →Three or four, or, it may be, five, of these people were slaughtered.
Some declared they had, one of them, fired on a sentinel; others
Say they were only escaping; a Priest, it is currently stated,
Read full poem →For either our affections do rebel,
Or else the sentinel,
That should ring ’larum to the heart, doth sleep:
Read full poem →Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Read full poem →Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Read full poem →O rising moon! O Lady moon!
Be you my lover’s sentinel,
You cannot choose but know him well,
Read full poem →O rising moon! O Lady moon!
Be you my lover's sentinel,
You cannot choose but know him well,
Read full poem →Bough iron-spiked, ripe fruit-o'ercrusted,
My sentinel to guard the sands
To the water's edge. For, what expands