Read full poem →What can atone (O ever-injured Shade!)
Thy fate unpitied, and thy rites unpaid?
Dictionary Entry
To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
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Poetry examples for “atone”
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Read full poem →I will face thy wrath, though it bite as a sword,
And my soul shall burn for his soul, and atone.
Read full poem →By Thy long-drawn anguish to atone,
Jesus Christ, show mercy on Thine own:
Read full poem →We cannot ever know; nor yet
Shall all he gave us quite atone
For what was his, and his alone;
Read full poem →that is to say to take stock of her past life, apologize for it to
herself and see how she could atone reasonably for what she had done
wrong. A decade or two earlier she would have turned to religion,
Read full poem →_Mercy._ Have pity, Lord! let penitence
Atone for disobedience,
Nor let the fruit of man's offence
Read full poem →And sends, from his great throne above,
Justice, that shall atone!
Read full poem →And wearied with man’s never-ceasing moan
For sins no bleating victim can atone,
And sweet long lips with tears and kisses fed.
Read full poem →'Love, Love, Love,' whene'er the bass 100
Asked the treble to atone
For its somewhat sombre drone."
Read full poem →'Love, Love, Love,' whene'er the bass
Asked the treble to atone
For its somewhat sombre drone."