anoint
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Joe Talbot hauntingly asks, “Do you love your blessed father? / Anoint by fear of death / Do you feel the lies creep on by? / As soft as baby’s breath.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Anoint us with gladness and healing; Baptize us with power from on high; O come with filling and sealing While low at the Thy footstool we lie.
From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.)
Broken bones of the martyrs, Reliques of pain, Anoint them, anoint them with sunlight, Robe them in rain.
From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by Seymour, W. Kean
Anoint me, rain, let crash your silver arrows On this hard flesh!
From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various
Anoint the face with this, leave it on twenty or thirty minutes, or over night if convenient, and wash off with warm water.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
Vocabulary lists containing anoint
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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