Dictionary Entry

warn

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/wɔːn/Used In Literature ↓

To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

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Common Phrases

against warn

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Poetry examples for “warn”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

But heav'n reveals not what, or how, or where:
Warn'd by the Sylph, oh pious maid, beware!
This to disclose is all thy guardian can:

Oh! let him fly the crystal lakes and floods,
Nor touch the fatal flowers; but, warn'd by me,
Believe a goddess shrined in every tree.

But heaven reveals not what, or how, or where:
Warn'd by the Sylph, oh, pious maid, beware!
This to disclose is all thy guardian can:

Then if they stray, but warn ’em ; and the same
They would for virtue do, they’ll do for shame.

There touch whatever thou canst touch of me.
Ay me! I warn what profits some few hours!
But we must part, when heaven with black night lours. 60

If kindly you receive the Lay,
You shall be sweetly help’d and warn’d.

Heaving for aye, without a heart!
Mother, what need to warn me so?
_I_ love Miss Churchill? Ah, no, no.

'Tis there, O Love, they keep thy festival!
But first warn off the beatific spot
Those wretched who have not

But balanced richly in a manhood gain.
I warn you, David Barrow, pessimist,
Against a general slur on life and man.

And even he made no reply.
Does he not warn us all to seek
The happier, better land on high,