Read full poem →Form'd to delight at once and lash the age:
Above temptation in a low estate,
And uncorrupted, even among the great:
Dictionary Entry
The act of tempting
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Poetry examples for “temptation”
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Read full poem →Form'd to delight at once and lash the age:
Above Temptation, in a low Estate, 5
And uncorrupted, ev'n among the Great:
Read full poem →form of an idyl, the picture of a man fortified
against temptation by his knowledge of God,
the "mighty Pan" of Milton's "Ode on the
Read full poem →And listened, too, to a voice that in my ear
Hissed the temptation to curse God, or worse,
And yet more frequent, curse myself and die;
Read full poem →And listened, too, to a voice that in my ear
Hissed the temptation to curse God, or worse,
And yet more frequent, curse myself and die;
Read full poem →And fill our hearts with doubt and fear.
Whether it be a dark temptation
Of the Evil One, or God's inspiration,
Read full poem →pero’s brother an intenser course is necessary. Before he is punished,
he is made (by temptation— the others’ magic sleep) to re-enact his
crime by persuading the dull Sebastian to the murder of his brother;
Read full poem →CHAPTER 17 -- Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and
pleasing temptation
Read full poem →"E'er yet on sin's base actions I was bent,
"E'er yet I knew temptation's dire intent;
"E'er yet the lash for horrid crimes I felt,