bedew

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A helpless maiden's tears like raindrops fall, Which in a July night, ere harvest-time, Bedew the flowers, and, trembling, stand within Their half-closed eyes unnumbered and unknown.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Bedew, be-dū′, v.t. to moisten gently, as with dew.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Strong, silent Soldier, whom the unmarked years Shaped to such service of the Fatherland As seldom to one firm, unfailing hand, A State hath owed; to-day a People's tears Bedew the most illustrious of biers!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various

You gaze at me in doubting fashion, Before the offered rapture dumb; Tears and still tears your sole expression: Bedew my bosom with them--come!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert