Read full poem →Like a strange shape in filmy veiling dressed,
Slid slowly, silently, the wraith-like mist,
And nestled soft against the earth’s wet breast.
Dictionary Entry
A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “wraith”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Never, though she might honor ineffably
The flimsy wraith of him she conjured
Out of a dream with his wand of absence.
Read full poem →Sure is the triumph of our Faith,
The one-eyed stranger was his wraith."
Dead rides Sir Morten of Fogelsang.
Read full poem →And mine eyes shall lose the light;
For the great white wraith by the winding river
Shall check my steps with might.
Read full poem →And ever at night, when the storm is fierce,
The cries of a wraith through the thunder pierce;
And the waves strain their awful hands on high
Read full poem →Be-north the Roman wa’, man:
An’ Chatham’s wraith, in heav’nly graith,
(Inspired bardies saw, man),
Read full poem →Unveiled cragg'd centuries, and led
You, the snared wraith of bygone things--
Wild ancestries of trackless Kings--
Read full poem →[Footnote 73: The _wraith_, or spectral appearance, of a person
shortly to die, is a firm article in the creed of Scottish