Read full poem →Is quick with import. Such each year has been.
Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeath
Some jewel to thy diadem of power,
Dictionary Entry
To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “bequeath”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The grass on that scarred acre, though I sow
Young seed there yearly and the sky bequeath
Its friendly weathers down, far underneath
Read full poem →BEFORE I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe,
Great Love, some legacies; I here bequeath
Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see;
Read full poem →liberal in the spending of them? And, lastly, (for there is no end of
all the particulars of his glory,) to bequeath all this with one word
to his posterity? To die with peace at home, and triumph abroad? To be
Read full poem →Who, when they gave thee breath,
Failed to bequeath
The needful sinew stark as once,
Read full poem →Afton’s Laird! Afton’s Laird, when your pen can be spared,
A copy of this I bequeath,
On the same sicker score as I mention’d before,
Read full poem →“Where are your books? that light bequeath’d
“To beings else forlorn and blind!
Read full poem →“In primas I give and bequeath unto my Daughter,
Hannah Gallop and her children, all my land at New
Read full poem →I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
Read full poem →how long;
And from to-day, sad and cogent, I maintain the bequeath’d cause, as for all lands,
And I send these words to Paris with my love,
