pharos

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Sometimes, O Lord, thou lightest in my head   A lamp that well might pharos all the lands; Anon the light will neither rise nor spread:   Shrouded in danger gray the beacon stands!

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

Fleets swiftly ply where lagged the lone batteau, And quarries trench the gorge; Where waned the council-fire, now steadfast glow The pharos and the forge.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

Heed this confession of a woman to whom fame has been like a pharos, warning her of the only true path.

From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Rebellion raged within: Then SHERIDAN! dilating to the storm,   Bright as the pharos, as the watch-tower strong, With all the patriot's inspiration warm,   Thy genius pour'd its thundering voice along.

From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas

An Intellectual Capital For twenty years this home of Voltaire was the centre and pharos of the intellectual world.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)