All 40 Uses of
perish
in
The Ramayana
- The queen, who loved her perished lord, For meet reply, the saint adored, And, of her husband long bereaved, She bore a son by him conceived.†
Book 1 *perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- For if alone my Ráma fall, We share his fate and perish all.†
Book 1perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Thy mother furious with her lord, And fain to perish by the cord, Said to her husband: "I would know, O Monarch, why thou laughest so."†
Book 2
- Thou livest, for thy heedless hand Has wrought a deed thou hast not planned, Else thou and all of Raghu's line Had perished by this act of thine.†
Book 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Far from my sight my Ráma flies, My perished lord has sought the skies.†
Book 2
- Now, as a living wife and true, I, e'en this day, will perish too: Around his form these arms will throw And to the fire with him will go.†
Book 2perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Kaikeyí's self shall perish too With kith and kin and retinue, And earth by my avenging deed Shall from this mass of sin be freed.†
Book 2
- Sankhan his son, to manhood grown, Died sadly with his host o'erthrown, But ere he perished sprang from him Sudarsan fair in face and limb.†
Book 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- When on the three his fierce eye fell, He charged them with a roar and yell As furious as the grisly King When stricken worlds are perishing.†
Book 3perishing = dying or being destroyed; or extremely cold
- Know that the wretch whose evil mind Joys in the grief of human kind, Though the three worlds confess him lord, Must perish dreaded and abhorred.†
Book 3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- And by the shafts which Ráma dealt They perished in their pride.†
Book 3perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- The good will die: the crime of kings Destruction on the people brings: The sinless die, as in the lake The fish must perish with the snake.†
Book 3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- The good whose holy lives were spent In deepest thought, most innocent, With all their people many a time Have perished through another's crime.†
Book 3perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Pride, violence, and sullen hate Will ne'er maintain a monarch's state, And those who cruel deeds advise Must perish when their master dies, Like drivers with their cars o'erthrown In places rough with root and stone.†
Book 3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- The good whose holy lives were spent On duty's highest laws intent, With wives and children many a time Have perished for another's crime.†
Book 3perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- The rash and careless fool who heeds No coming fruit of guilty deeds, A few short years of life shall see, And perish doomed to death like thee.†
Book 3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Back to my cot will I repair If Sítá live to greet me there, But if my wife have perished, I Reft of my love will surely die.†
Book 3perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- If thou, my love, art lost to view, I in my woe must perish too.†
Book 3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Arise, my brother, do and dare Ere action perish in despair.†
Book 4
- His little son, a ten year child— So chanced it—perished in the wild.†
Book 4perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Come, let us all from food abstain, And perish thus, since hope is vain.†
Book 4perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- s might, and, nobly brave, Perished, the Maithil queen to save?†
Book 4perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Or did she perish of alarm When circled by the monster's arm?†
Book 5perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- ever fond and true, Will, undivided, perish too.†
Book 5
- Here rather in some distant dell A lonely hermit will I dwell, Where roots and berries will supply My humble wants until I die; Or on the shore will raise a pyre And perish in the kindled fire.†
Book 5
- (832) Beware: this lawless love of thine Will ruin thee and all thy line; And for thy sin, thy sin alone, Will Lanká perish overthrown†
Book 5
- Be wise; the hero's friendship gain, Nor perish in his fury slain.†
Book 5
- Then with fierce eyes on Sítá set They cried again with taunt and threat: Each licking with her fiery tongue The lip that to her bosom hung, And menacing the lady's life With axe, or spear or murderous knife: "Hear, Sítá, and our words obey, Or perish by our hands to-day.†
Book 5
- Yea, limb from limb will I be rent, But never to his prayer consent; Be burnt and perish in the fire, But never meet his base desire.†
Book 5
- For spake he well or spake he ill, He spake obedient to their will, And, if he perish, who can bear Thy challenge to the royal pair?†
Book 5
- The town to fire and death I gave, Nor thought of her I came to save,— Doomed by my own rash folly, doomed To perish in the flames consumed.†
Book 5
- Restore her while there yet is time, Nor let us perish for thy crime.†
Book 6
- His arm the guilty Báli slew; Thus, tyrant, shalt thou perish too.†
Book 6
- Scarce could their bravest prove their might: They perished in the dark of night.†
Book 6perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- But shivered rock and brandished tree Brought many a giant on his knee, To perish in his turn beneath The deadly wounds of nails and teeth.†
Book 6perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Nor ceased he yet: his bow he strained, And from the sounding weapon rained A storm of shafts whose fiery glare Filled all the region of the air; And chieftains dropped before his aim Like moths that perish in the flame.†
Book 6
- If he be dead, the brave and true, I will not live but perish too.†
Book 6
- They perished slain in fierce attacks With sword and pike and battle-axe; But myriads following undismayed Their valour in the fight displayed.†
Book 6perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- These, these and many a Rákshas more, Each master of the arms he bore, Who every foe in fight o'erthrew, The victors none could e'er subdue, Have perished by the might of one, The vengeful arm of Raghu's son.†
Book 6
- "Nay, idly mourn not," Ráma cried, "The warrior king has nobly died, Intrepid hero, firm through all, So fell he as the brave should fall; And ill beseems it chiefs like us To weep for those who perish thus.†
Book 6perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
Definition:
to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.