Dictionary Entry

urn

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ɜːn/Used In Literature ↓

A vase with a footed base.

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Common Phrases

. urncontaining urnurn grecianurn coffeeurn wroughturn cinerary

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Poetry examples for “urn”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

With thee on Raphael's monument I mourn.
Or wait inspiring dreams at Maro's urn:
With thee repose where Tully once was laid,

Thy relics, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust,
And sacred place by Dryden's awful dust:

7 The love of arts lies cold and dead
In Halifax's urn;
And not one Muse of all he fed

White ashes of no weight,
Held not his urn the cold
Ashes of Heracles?

The stooped urn, filling, dips and flashes;
The bronzed brims are deep in ashes;

Upon it perfumed offerings burn
Wreathing with smoke the sacrificial urn.
Not one of all these has he given,

But painted on the sky great visions burn,
My voice, oblation from a shattered urn!

Wise child, didst hastily return,
And mad'st thy mother's womb thine urn.
How summ'd a circle didst thou leave mankind

' atehymv, I'ortiinc-iellin;:, urn! ulgebrn , your minerals,

The reader will find a de&ice 2nd explanation of the whole passage in note ^ act iv. scene i.
pf Tliicrry and Theodoret, voL iii. of urn edition.