Read full poem →Who think us Creatures for Derision made,
And the Creator with his Works upbraid:
What he call'd good, they proudly think not so,
Dictionary Entry
The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
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Poetry examples for “upbraid”
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Read full poem →That rocked thee like a cradle in thy root--
How did I love to hear the winds upbraid
Thy strength without--while all within was mute.
Read full poem →Nothing of the kind has ever been attempted on a great or national
scale by the church of England, which gives Catholics room to upbraid
her clergy with their unambitious sloth in declining the dignity of
Read full poem →The dim horizon's utmost bound;--
Who can, like thee, our rags upbraid,
Or taunt us with our hope decayed?
Read full poem →IRENE.
Upbraid me not with fancied wickedness;
I am not yet a queen, or an apostate.
Read full poem →Wherefore vex ye your minds with evil hatred, as waves
through the wind agitate the sea? Or wherefore upbraid
ye your fortune, that she has no power? Or why cannot ye
Read full poem →To their aery rise and fall,
“Should he upbraid.”
Read full poem →Straight I upbraid my wandering heart,
And blush that I should ever be