Read full poem →'Behold Andraemon and th' unhappy sire
Appear, and for their Dryope inquire:
Dictionary Entry
A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sirede sire
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Poetry examples for “sire”
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Read full poem →Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son
Shall finish what his short-lived sire begun;
Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield,
Read full poem →And this conjunction swells at least her mind:
Oh could the sire, renown'd in glass, produce
One faithful mirror for his daughter's use!
Read full poem →As son, as father, brother, husband, friend!
Whether his hoary sire he spies,
While thousand grateful thoughts arise;
Read full poem →Till he return, or I do end:
Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,
Fly back and sing amidst this choir.
Read full poem →** While that his mountain Sire, on mountain standing.
Up in the air crown*d with the golden sun.
Read full poem →That bird forever feathered,
Of its new self the sire,
After aeons weathered,
Read full poem →Shall duly bring to flower?
O, Unknown Eros, sire of awful bliss,
What portent and what Delphic word,
Read full poem →Alike to my flock and thine;
For, alas! at home I have a sire,
A stepdame eke, as hot as fire,
Read full poem →At length they chaunst to meet upon the way
An aged Sire,[*] in long blacke weedes yclad,
His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray 255