Read full poem →A virtue, like allay, so gone
Throughout your form, as though that move,
Dictionary Entry
Alleviation; abatement; check.
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Common Phrases
any allayfears allay. allayallay help
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Poetry examples for “allay”
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Read full poem →For kind and loving hast thou always been.
The griefs of private men are soon allay'd ;
But not of kings. The forest deer, being struck,
Read full poem →And all through the high Liturgy
My spirit rejoiced without allay,
Being, for once, borne clearly above
Read full poem →Upon the frail clear light there shed,
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
Read full poem →I thought, if I could draw my pains
Through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay.
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
Read full poem →What are the "fears and scruples" held by the speaker? What proof does
he desire to allay his doubts? Does he settle the doubt or put it
aside? Where is his spirit of reverence best shown?
Read full poem →Shall out of both one new one make;
From hers th' allay, from mine the metal take. COWLEY.
Read full poem →Shalt out of both one new one make;
From hers th’ allay, from mine the metal take.—COWLEY.
Read full poem →Smelling to his prey;
But their fears allay
When he licks their hands,
Read full poem →O THOU, who passest through our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames firom their large nostrils 1 Thou, O