inurn

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Next, O ye chiefs! we ask a truce to burn Our slaughter'd heroes, and their bones inurn.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

May this narrow spot inurn Aught that could so beat and burn?”

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

The heart that healed all hearts of pain No funeral rites inurn: Its echoes, while the stars remain, Return.

From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

May this narrow spot inurn Aught that so could heat and burn?

From Strange Pages from Family Papers by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)

A brother's pious hand The pure, fire-winnowed ashes shall inurn, And lay them in the orange grove where burn Globed suns that scent the land.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma