surcease
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Calm little figure, ivy-crowned, How long beneath the barren tree Where this pale, martyred god has found Surcease from his long agony, You watch with an untroubled gaze Life move on its accustomed ways!
From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin
I go wherever men may dare, I go wherever woman's care And love can live, Wherever strength and skill can bring Surcease to human suffering, Or solace give.
From A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 by Clarke, George Herbert
Now shall my soul find its calm nevermore In the depths—the blue depths—of your eyes as of yore, Overborne by a perilous flood I shall know Surcease of no sorrow, no lightening of woe!
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland
Wherefore, my Eblis, it were wise to seek Surcease of grief.
From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Collier, Ada Langworthy
Vocabulary lists containing surcease
Romeo and Juliet
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"The Raven"
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"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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