Read full poem →Here aged trees cathedral walks compose,
And mount the hill in venerable rows:
There the green infants in their beds are laid,
Dictionary Entry
Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
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Poetry examples for “venerable”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The relics of his muse, though not always pre-
eminent in point of genius, 'are yet so venerable on
the score of erudition, so rich in classic lore, so
Read full poem →And Major Walker who had talked
With venerable men of the revolution?—
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
Read full poem →For the venerable oak, delivered of his pangs,
Put forth his flames of green with profuse joying
Read full poem →Due to her isle; a venerable name;
His father and his grandsire known to fame;
Read full poem →spared during his life, has been much canvassed by divines. I indulge
myself in a tribute to a most venerable character, when I state, that
the most ingenious discourses I ever heard from the pulpit, were upon
Read full poem →Among his brothers of the mountain chase.
In midst of all, the venerable priest
Eyed them witii joy from greatest to the least,
Read full poem →The Childe departed from his father's hall:
It was a vast and venerable pile;
So old, it seemed only not to fall,
Read full poem →A band of children, round a snow-white ram,
There wreathe his venerable horns with flowers ;
