The Eagle, he was lord above,

And Rob was lord below.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Rob Roy's Grave.

Some hae meat and canna eat,

And some would eat that want it;

But we hae meat, and we can eat,

Sae let the Lord be thankit.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Grace before Meat.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,

Out of the land of bondage came,

Her fathers' God before her mov'd,

An awful guide in smoke and flame.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Ivanhoe. Chap. xxxix.

The Lord descended from above

And bow'd the heavens high;

And underneath his feet he cast

The darkness of the sky.

On cherubs and on cherubims

Full royally he rode;

And on the wings of all the winds

Came flying all abroad.

Thomas Sternhold (Circa 1549): A Metrical Version of Psalm civ.

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing,

Hope, and comfort from above;

Let us each, thy peace possessing,

Triumph in redeeming love.

Robert Hawker (1753-1827): Benediction.

Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 6.

A strong nor'-wester's blowing, Bill!

Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?

Lord help 'em, how I pities them

Unhappy folks on shore now!

William Pitt (—— -1840): The Sailor's Consolation.

It would talk,—

Lord! how it talked!

Beaumont And Fletcher: Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 1.

Ask where's the North? At York 't is on the Tweed;

In Scotland at the Orcades; and there,

At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 222.

Great families of yesterday we show,

And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

Daniel Defoe (1663-1731): The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.

My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1.

The Lord my pasture shall prepare,

And feed me with a shepherd's care;

His presence shall my wants supply,

And guard me with a watchful eye.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719): Spectator. No. 444.

What more felicitie can fall to creature

Than to enjoy delight with libertie,

And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,

To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,

To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie. Line 209.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;

Still by himself abused or disabused;

Created half to rise, and half to fall;

Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,—

The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 13.

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;

Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,

The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,

Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Lara. Canto i. Stanza 2.

Lord of himself, though not of lands;

And having nothing, yet hath all.

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639): The Character of a Happy Life.

Lord of humankind.

John Dryden (1631-1701): The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share;

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,

Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,

Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771): Ode to Independence.

Oh, weep for the hour

When to Eveleen's bower

The lord of the valley with false vows came.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Eveleen's Bower.

Lord of thy presence and no land beside.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act i. Sc. 1.

But let a lord once own the happy lines,

How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 220.

Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt,

The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,

The Douglas in red herrings.

Alfred Bunn (1790-1860): Alnwick Castle.

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,

Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just;

Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,

Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): The Present Crisis.

Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379.